Martin Handley presents Breakfast including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, including works by Hummel, Satie, Bennett and Elfrida Andrée. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is architect, broadcaster and quintessential Venetian, Francesco da Mosto. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Live concert from London's Wigmore Hall: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective perform music by Dvořák, Frank Bridge and the groundbreaking African American, William Grant Still. Show more
Hannah French explores Handel's links with a city he never visited! She's joined by Cambridge Handel Opera's Julian Perkins ahead of their upcoming production of Tamerlano. Show more
From the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London, with music by Tomkins, Gibbons, Weelkes, Philips and Buxtehude. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, including music from Esbjorn Svensson, Miles Davis and Cecile McLorin Salvant. Show more
Why are there so many performances and recordings of the same pieces? Tom Service explores western classical music's insatiable need for endless interpretation. Show more
The readings are all from poems, stories and research undertaken by New Generation Thinkers. The music ranges from Mahler to the Delta Rhythm Boys. Show more
Sunday Feature
I Arrive without Leaving - The Story of Women Surrealist Poets
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza tells the little-known story of the early women surrealist poets and writers and how they shaped the surrealist movement. Show more
By Timothy X Atack. Peter Capaldi stars as Ludwig van Beethoven in an immersive audio drama first broadcast in 2020 to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Show more
Record Review Extra
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
1 hour, 59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Show more
Pianist Keval Shah presents a fresh and compelling guide to some of music's greatest chamber works and songs, unravelling their mysteries from the perspective of the accompanist. Show more
Keelan Carew finds unlikely musical connections. Tonight he plots a course through hypnotic Steve Reich, a sad waltz by Sibelius and some stunning Mongolian throat singing. Show more
Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Stravinsky and Hindemith from the Berlin Music Festival. Catriona Young presents. Show more