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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod recounts how Doreen Carwithen's elopement with William Alwyn happened, and considers the effect of this action on Carwithen's career. Show more
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Sarah Walker continues highlights from the Verbier Festival with Daniil Trifonov playing Debussy, the Ebene Quartet in Haydn's 'Sun' Quartet, and Miklos Perenyi playing Beethoven. Show more
Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Zemlinsky's headily romantic Lyric Symphony. Plus there's music by Brahms, Stravinsky and Italian composer Leone Sinigaglia. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by conductor John Wilson and pianist Martin James Bartlett, and by cellist Peter Gregson who performs in the studio with a string quartet. Show more
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises, including early music with a twist from the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Show more
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins perform music by Sibelius and Vaughan Williams. They are joined by Elizabeth Llewellyn in Strauss's Four Last Songs. Show more
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Karel Reisz's 1966 film, which starred Vanessa Redgrave and David Warner, is explored in depth by Matthew Sweet and his guests Stephen Frears, Matthew Reisz and Lucy Bolton. Show more
In the next in a series celebrating the joys of Essex, surely the most maligned of counties, social historian Ken Worpole explores Essex as a place of retreat and refuge. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
Elizabeth Alker selects an eclectic range of new ambient and experimental music, and Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is in the Listening Chair to choose a track that transports him. Show more
From the Hungarian Radio archives, a performance by the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer, including Bartok's Violin Concerto and Beethoven's Fourth Symphony. Show more