Start the day in the pastoral setting of Crom Castle on Upper Lough Erne, where Petroc Trelawny and guests explore the area’s links with Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett. Show more
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises. Show more
Donald Macleod looks at how Pope Urban VIII’s reign fostered a vibrant period of music in Rome in the early 17th century. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
NI Opera Festival of Voice 2023 (3/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Performances from tenor Robin Tritschler, baritone James Atkinson and mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons with pianist Simon Lepper from the NI Opera Festival of Voice 2023. Show more
Dvorak in optimistic mood with the Ulster Orchestra, plus Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in Salzburg and Nielsen's Hymnus Amoris in Copenhagen. Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
Radio 3 in Concert
Messiaen's Éclairs sur l'Au-Delà... at the Salzburg Festival
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Olivier Messiaen's Éclairs sur l’Au-delà… at the Salzburg Festival. Ingo Metzmacher conducts the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart, in the composer's final masterpiece. Show more
As Radio 3's Late Junction marks the launch in 1963 of the first compact cassette recorder with "Casseptember" programming, we look at writing from the notebook, to computer to AI. Show more
The peoples, presence and myths of Iron Age Britain. Writer Mandy Haggith imagines the coastal world encountered by Greek explorer Pytheas, centuries before Caesar. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
Unclassified
Unclassified Live: Isobel Waller-Bridge and Coby Sey at Bluedot Festival
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
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Elizabeth Alker presents Isobel Waller-Bridge and Coby Sey performing with the BBC Concert Orchestra at this year’s Bluedot Festival. Show more
Soprano Gun-Brit Barkmin joins the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Fabio Luisi for excerpts from the music dramas of Richard Wagner. John Shea presents. Show more