Why does sad music lift our mood? Can classical music really make us smarter? Join broadcaster, Radio 3 Unwind presenter and psychologist Dr Sian Williams and cognitive neuroscientist Professor ...

This lyrical theme and variations set the scene for Beethoven's stormy and dramatic piano concerto No 3. The soloist is South Korean pianist Yeo Eum Son, known for her profound musical insights ...

Linton Stephens presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford, including BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and ...

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford, including BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating ...

Plus Sibelius's Symphony No.5 and Britten's Our Hunting Fathers with Allan Clayton. Show more The BBC SO conducted by Sakari Oramo premieres Brian Elias's Horn Concerto with Ben Goldscheider.

Tom plays classical music to start your weekend. Plus the continuation of BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some ...

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. Helen Grime's Violin Concerto, Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration and Four Last Songs, and Awake by Daniel Kidane. Show more The BBC ...

Show more Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore present BBC Radio 3's series exploring the pivotal 'modern' musical works of the 20th century, the groundbreaking composers who created them, and the ...

The BBC Singers at the Aldeburgh Festival in a programme of despair, hope and joy with music by Britten, Schoenberg and, to end, Poulenc's searing Figure humaine. Show more Live from the Aldeburgh ...

American pianist Richard Goode performs a programme of Haydn, Mozart and Brahms at Wigmore Hall in London. Piano sonatas by Haydn and Mozart are contrasted with Brahms's sets of lyrical piano ...

Sir James MacMillan directs the BBC Singers in music by Palestrina, John Tavener and a some of his own works in a concert recorded at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Show more Sir James ...

Plus BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. Today, violinist ...