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
Nicholas Kenyon explores what’s really happening when we strive for perfect historical accuracy in music performance. Is it authenticity or something else entirely? Show more
The Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio pair Brahms’s Piano Trio No 1 with Butterflies Remember a Mountain by Arlene Sierra. Show more
The Early Music Show
A Delightful Thing: Music and Readings from a Melancholy Man
59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
From this year's York Early Music Festival, Iestyn Davies and Elizabeth Kenny perform songs and instrumental pieces by that most dolorous of Elizabethan composers - John Dowland. Show more
Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with the choir of St Bartholomew the Great, London. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records requested by Radio 3 listeners, including music from Count Basie, King Oliver and Pat Metheny. Show more
Iain Glen and Kae Alexander read extracts from survivors of Hiroshima, John Hersey's journalism, poems by John Donne, with music by Sakamoto, John Adams and Hildur Gudnadottir. Show more
Georgia Mann explores the coming week's Proms in the company of Flora Willson, Nigel Simeone and Roderick Williams. Show more
The classical music canon - who decides what's in and what's out? Can it and should it change? Show more
Hannah French presents more music from the freshest recordings in classical music, including one of our reviewer Kate Kennedy's top Vaughan Williams recordings in full. Show more
Britten’s tribute to his teacher Frank Bridge, a new work by Colin Matthews (who worked as Britten’s assistant) and Mozart’s Requiem. Show more
Nick Luscombe explores the music and sounds of Japan, including tracks from Toshi Ichiyanagi, Soshi Hosoi and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Show more
Guest presenter Jules Buckley stands in for Clemmie Burton-Hill and tries out a classical playlist on composer, producer and DJ, Afrodeutsche aka Henrietta Smith-Rolla. Show more
A concert from last summer's Thun Castle concerts on the lakeshore with violinist Malin Broman, pianist Teo Gheorghiu and chamber orchestra Musica Vitae. With Catriona Young. Show more
