Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Sunday Morning
Sarah Walker with a glorious 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 it’s pouring with rain outside or you’re basking in the morning sunshine. Show more
'The most celebrated Italian musician of his generation'... but what do we know now of the 17th-century composer Antonio Cesti? Lucie Skeaping explores his life and music. Show more
From the Chapel of Eton College with members of the Rodolfus Foundation Choral Course, with music by Lucy Walker, Leighton, Finzi and Howells. Show more
Live at the BBC Proms: The Budapest Festival Orchestra and conductor Iván Fischer perform music chosen by the audience. Show more
Jazz Record Requests
The Good Life: Remembering Tony Bennett
59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 8 months
Alyn Shipton presents your requests for recordings by the celebrated American singer Tony Bennett, in a programme first broadcast shortly after his death in July 2023. Show more
The Listening Service
Why are classical audiences so quiet?
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom looks at how classical audiences are hooked on silence. We should, he says, relax in the concert hall, show our appreciation by clapping when we want to, and enjoy the music. Show more
Barbara Flynn and Hugo Speer with readings on the theme of flight, both imaginative and physical and including music by Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, Tan Dun and George Walker. Show more
Music historian Leah Broad uncovers the sometimes shocking stories of three marginalised 20th-century female composers, and hears some of their music for the very first time. Show more
Live at the BBC Proms: the Budapest Festival Orchestra, with pianist András Schiff and conductor Iván Fischer, play Ligeti, Bartók and Beethoven. Show more
Record Review Extra
Marina Frolova-Walker's Shostakovich
59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music, as well as music from Marina Frolova-Walker's pick of Shostakovich's recordings. Show more
Berginald Rash charts the fortunes of the American clarinet as it crosses borders and genres, and plays his favourite performers and tracks from jazz to folk and klezmer. Show more
Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist for comedian, actor, and Instagram sensation Harry Trevaldwyn. Show more
Kerson Leong, Marc-Andre Hamelin and friends perform chamber works by Glazunov and Brahms. Presented by John Shea. Show more
