Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is the writer and advice columnist Bel Mooney. With music by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Pergolesi. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, the young German trumpeter and Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Simon Hofele, plays six pieces of 20th-century repertoire with pianist Frank Dupree. Show more
The Early Music Show
Thirty-five years of the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition (2)
19 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping with more recordings from prizewinners at the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition from 1985 to 2019, including Savadi, I Fagiolini and BarrocoTout. Show more
From the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, with the choirs of King's and St John's Colleges. Show more
Alyn Shipton plays jazz records requested by Radio 3 listeners, including music from Horace Silver, John Coltrane and Betty Carter. Show more
Tom Service on listening to slow music, composing slow music and playing slow music. He investigates what happens when our music goes slow. Show more
Poets and writers reflect on childhood experiences, featuring texts by Alice Oswald, James Baldwin and William Wordsworth. Readings by Rebecca Lacey and Abraham Popoola. Show more
Sunday Feature
Silent Witness - John Cage, Zen and Japan
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
How experimental composer John Cage came to write his infamous, silent piece, 4’33”, shattering our perception of silence and opening our ears to the music of everyday sounds. Show more
Byzantium by Robin Brooks, the true story of the Empress Zoe and her desperate struggle to stay on the throne of the Byzantine Empire in a vortex of sexual and political intrigue. Show more
Hannah French presents more music from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Vivaldi's L'estro armonico. Show more
The Mindful Mix is a selection of calming music for you to relax to, featuring piano pieces from Wagner, Liszt, Chopin and a Japanese folksong composed by Toshio Hosokawa. Show more
Noisettes frontwoman Shingai tries Clemmie's classical playlist and reveals her operatic inspirations. Show more
Conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Emanuel Ax in Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto and Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more
