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
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is Rory Stewart. With Handel, Schubert, Beethoven, Bach and Mozart. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Anna Lucia Richter sings Brahms and Wolf
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Live from London's Wigmore Hall, mezzo-soprano Anna Lucia Richter sings songs by Wolf and Brahms, which move from the world of the lullaby to contemplation on the transience of life. Show more
Hannah French sets the scene on some of the great music composed as incidental music to the 1579 play La Pellegrina or The Pilgrim Woman. Show more
Choral Vespers, live from Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, with Ensemble Pro Victoria to mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Robert Fayrfax. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, with music from Count Basie, Norma Winstone and Lonnie Smith. Show more
Tom Service unwinds the 12-foot metal tube that is the French horn to discover its atavistic appeal for three centuries of composers, from Handel to Ligeti and beyond. Show more
The dimming of the day reflected in writing by Adrienne Rich, James Joyce and Peter Porter, read by Clare Perkins and Neil Pearson, plus music from Wagner to Lydia Kabadse. Show more
Printmaker Norman Ackroyd leaves on a boat at dawn to paint the sunrise on Suffolk's crumbling cliffs from the North Sea for the first time, with a new poem by Nancy Campbell. Show more
Sophie Coulombeau, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, writer and lecturer in English Literature at the University of York, reflects on the contemporary reluctance to face death. Show more
Hattie Naylor’s adaptation of Iceland’s most famous saga. It tells the epic tale of two rival families, a long-running blood feud and its tragic outcome. Show more
Hannah French presents more music from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Felix Mendelssohn's Octet. Show more
How do you make people laugh in opera? Opera director Barrie Kosky looks at works by Verdi, Offenbach, Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Bernstein, in search of comedy on the stage. Show more
Guest presenter Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist for broadcaster Ayo Akinwolere. Show more
Hungarian Radio celebrates the founder of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer, with a performance from its archives of Sibelius and Beethoven. Catriona Young presents. Show more