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, whether you’re cosying up with a coffee or heading into the sunshine for Easter Day. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is world expert on birds, Professor Tim Birkhead. With Mozart, Beethoven, Josquin and the song of the bullfinch. Show more
Andrew Carwood directs early-music vocal ensemble The Cardinall's Musick in music for Passiontide, featuring works by Renaissance masters such as Tallis, Morales and Palestrina. Show more
Vincent Dumestre directs Le Poème Harmonique in highlights of a concert for Holy Week by Couperin, plus news of a new recording of Handel's La Resurrezione from The English Concert Show more
Live from Canterbury Cathedral on Easter Day, with music by Scheidt, Howells, Matthew Martin and Widor. Show more
Alyn Shipton with your requests for recordings by bassist and composer Charles Mingus, born 100 years ago on 22 April. Show more
The Listening Service
The Musical Universe of Maurice Ravel
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom Service scopes the musical world of one of his favourite composers, Maurice Ravel.
Emma Fielding and Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong with readings from writers including Anne Sexton and Caleb Femi and music by Vivaldi, Astor Piazzolla and Ella Fitzgerald among others. Show more
A sonic portrait of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society, recorded on location during a field trip to Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire. Show more
From its origin in Egypt, the balcony has been an architectural norm, but Dr Islam Issa looks beyond the living space to the cultural significance of this outside-inside space. Show more
Simon Russell Beale is the reader in a concert of music and recitals from Proust's life and great novel of memory, In Search of Lost Time, first published in English in 1922. Show more
Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Handel's Messiah. 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
Guest presenter Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist for visual artist and author Oliver Jeffers. Show more
Ottavio Dantone conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Haydn and Schubert from Turin. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more