Three to look out for

Alan Davey, the controller of BBC Radio 3, picks out three great moments to tune into this March International Women’s Day All the live music you will hear across Radio 3 on International Women’s Day will be written and produced by female composers and sound engineers. The BBC Singers will perform a set of world premieres before we head to Kings Place to rediscover Maddalena Casulana’s lost madrigals. BBC Radio 3: 8 March

Forty years of the Barbican Centre

To celebrate its 40th birthday, the Barbican presents a programme of music as provocative as the brutalism of the building itself. Judith Weir’s choral work Concrete pays homage to its bold architecture, and the concert ends with Elgar’s Cello Concerto, performed at the venue’s first concert in 1982.

Radio 3 in Concert: 4 March, 7.30pm

Dame Myra Hess Celebration

In its Wigmore Hall series, the Nash Ensemble recreates Myra Hess’s legendary lunchtime recitals performed at the National Gallery during World War II. The concerts featured popular composers of the day: Bax, Ireland and Warlock.

Radio 3 in Concert: 15 March, 7.30pm