Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
Record Review
Mahler's First Symphony in Building a Library with Gillian Moore and Andrew McGregor
2 hours, 47 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Gillian Moore chooses her favourite recording of Mahler's First Symphony. Plus, in an end-of-year round-up, the Record Review production team share their top picks of 2020. Show more
A book on Arvo Pärt's sacred music. We explore luminosity in music as part of Radio 3's season Light in the Darkness. Beethoven's cut-back celebrations in times of the pandemic. Show more
This Classical Life
Jess Gillam with... Eric Whitacre (This Classical Christmas)
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Jess Gillam and composer Eric Whitacre get all Christmassy and share their favourite festive sounds, including music from Prokofiev, Darlene Love, Danny Elfman and Nat King Cole. Show more
Inside Music
Conductor and organist Anna Lapwood on musical instinct and unexpected textures
1 hour, 56 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Anna Lapwood opens up a selection of classical music from her point of view as a conductor and organist - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light. Show more
With the recent on-demand release of David Fincher’s film Mank, exploring the background to Citizen Kane, Matthew looks at the music and cinema of Orson Welles. Show more
Kathryn Tickell with a selection of some of the year's best new releases and a specially recorded home session by Sam Amidon. Show more
Standout albums, memorable session tracks and guitarist Mary Halvorson on the music that inspires her. Show more
A performance of Beethoven's opera Fidelio recorded at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka plays Leonore and tenor Klaus Florian Vogt is Florestan. Show more
Lamentation, testimony and chant come together in a call to confront the spiritual questions of our time. Show more
The experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer, Elaine Mitchener curates and presents the first of two Christmas editions of the New Music Show. Show more
Music that brings light in times of darkness. Night turns into day with the Mexican group Produtziones Aldabar, plus a track that signals changing times from Miguel Flores. Show more
The Bern Chamber Orchestra perform Debussy, Smetana, Mahler and Shostakovich. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more