Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
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Sunday Morning
Sarah Walker with an energising 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 cooking brunch or catching up on some work. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is artist Jeremy Deller. He’s won the Turner Prize and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
New Generation Artists in Concert
56 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Current Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Leonkoro Quartet play Haydn's 'Bird' Quartet, William Thomas sings Schubert, and the Mithras Trio play Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio. Show more
Hannah French continues her series associated with the elements. Today's focus is air, with music by Rameau, Monteverdi, Boyce, Marenzio, Rebel and Hildegard of Bingen. Show more
Live from the Chapel of Rugby School, with music by Tippett, Britten and Whitlock. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
The Listening Service
What's the Point of Symphonies?
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
What exactly is a symphony, and how can one written in the 18th century by Haydn have anything in common with one written today? Show more
From Castor and Pollux to the Kray twins to Tweedledum and Tweedledee, twin cities, twin towers, uncanny likenesses and shadows. The readers are Tracy-Ann Oberman and Don Gilet. Show more
Katie Derham explores her secret family connection to the Brazilian modernist movement of 1922, in which iconoclastic poets and composers reshaped national identity forever. Show more
A fully-cast binaural performance of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land with an introductory preface. Show more
Record Review Extra
Building an Essential Library
2 hours, 29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Hannah French presents a special programme featuring more music from our three panellists' essential recordings that no library should be without. Show more
Abel demonstrates how the cello's phenomenal virtuosity and human-like voice is common to similar instruments in other cultures, including the Eritrean wata and South African lesiba. Show more
Linton Stephens tries out a classical playlist on comedian Josie Long. Show more
The Biel-Solothurn Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kaspar Zehnder are joined by harpist Emily Hoile in Glière's Harp Concerto. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
