Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Sunday Morning
Sarah Walker with a kaleidoscopic musical mix
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Sarah Walker chooses two and a half hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re having a restful day or heading outside for a walk. Show more
Live from the BBC Proms: An organ recital by Nathan Laube, including music by Wagner, Franck and Alkan, and his own transcription of Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor. Show more
Live at the BBC Proms: the Dudok String Quartet of Amsterdam play Doreen Carwithen's String Quartet No 2 and Brahms's String Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 2. Show more
An exploration of the music that was at the heart of the church and the royal court in 18th-century Portugal. Presented by Hannah French, with contributions from Marcos Magalhães. Show more
Live from Armagh Cathedral during the Charles Wood Summer School on the Feast of St Bartholomew, with music by Elaine Agnew, Wood and Vierne. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, with music this week from Mike Westbrook, Cab Calloway, Bill Evans and Lynne Arriale. Show more
The Listening Service
What counts as 'classical music'?
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
What does the term 'classical music' really mean? Does being played by an orchestra make music classical? What about film music? Crossover artists? Game music? With Tom Service. Show more
From the Ugly Bug Ball and Alice's caterpillar to Madame Butterfly, Kaija Saariaho's Sept Papillons, John Fowles's collector of specimens and Tennessee Williams's plague of moths. Show more
Sunday Feature
Margaret Fay Shaw's Hebridean Odyssey
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Archivist Fiona Mackenzie tells the story of how a classically trained pianist from America travelled to the Outer Hebrides in the 1920s to collect and record Gaelic folk songs. Show more
Live from the BBC Proms: Metropole Orkest conducted by Marcus Wyatt with vocalists Siyabonga Mthembu and ESKA, plus saxophonist Soweto Kinch and tuba player Theon Cross. Show more
Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music, as well as music from Joseph McHardy's pick of Johann Sebastian Bach's recordings. Show more
The ever-present and changing sound of the wind on Fair Isle, from cave to clifftop, turbine to tide. Show more
Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist for comedian and actor Michelle de Swarte. Show more
The WDR Symphony Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Manfred Honeck, perform Haydn's Mass No 9 in C and Shostakovich Symphony No 5. Catriona Young presents. Show more
