Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Sunday Morning
Sarah Walker with a fresh musical mix
3 hours, 1 minute
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re getting your garden ready for summer or brewing a coffee. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is artist and printmaker Norman Ackroyd. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Live from Wigmore Hall, celebrated violin-piano duo Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien play Schumann's Violin Sonata No 1 in A minor and Violin Sonata No 2 in D minor. Show more
Lucie Skeaping visits Handel & Hendrix in London, which reopens this month after 18 months of renovations - a museum that puts Handel's London home-life into colourful context. Show more
Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on the Eve of the Ascension, with music by Greta Tomlins, Howells, Owain Park and Cecilia McDowall. Show more
Jazz Record Requests
New discoveries and evergreen classics
59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, with music from Trish Clowes, Oscar Peterson and Terence Blanchard. Show more
Tom Service explores 'tunes for 'toons' - music that accompanies cartoons from the earliest films featuring Mickey Mouse to the sophisticated animations of today. Show more
The Bible cites ‘threescore years and ten’ as a natural lifespan and we’ll explore old age in poetry and prose with music from Arvo Pärt, Elliott Carter, Holst and Richard Strauss. Show more
Sunday Feature
Clocks and Clouds: An Adventure Around György Ligeti
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
On the centenary of his birth, a portrait of the Hungarian composer György Ligeti, a magnificent and mischievous musical spirit. Show more
Linda Marshall Griffiths's contemporary version of Euripides's powerful drama about the aftermath of war. Show more
Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Mahler's Rückert-Lieder. Show more
The Story of the Little Book
3. Opera and its text in our time
59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Librettist Emma Jenkins brings the story into the modern age where breaks in convention have provided exciting new possibiltites for today's librettists and for composers of opera. Show more
For Mental Health Awareness Week, Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist for former TV anchor turned child therapist Kate Silverton. Show more
Through the Night
Proms Festival Orchestra at the 2021 Proms
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
The inaugural concert from the Proms Festival Orchestra, made up entirely of freelance musicians. Mark Wigglesworth conducts Shostakovich and Mahler. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
