Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, opening the next door on our Advent Calendar of seasonal music. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Essential CD of the Week: Glinka - Overtures and Dances; Artist of the Week: Maria Joao Pires; Playwright Howard Brenton; Sarah's Essential Choice: Maria Callas. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Mascagni's last years in Rome, when he met the Pope and wrote his swansong, the opera Nerone. Show more
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) and Jose Gallardo (piano) perform at Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen. Schumann: Fantasiestucke. Webern: Two Pieces (1899). Rachmaninov: Sonata in G minor, Op 19. Show more
The BBC SO live in Maida Vale. Barber: Overture (The School for Scandal). Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F. Bernstein: Symphonic Dances (West Side Story). Plus BBC NOW in George Lloyd. Show more
Sean Rafferty with live music from the cast of the Menier's new Candide. Plus Angelique Kidjo in a tribute to Nelson Mandela and conversation with cellist Leonard Elschenbroich. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Mascagni's last years in Rome, when he met the Pope and wrote his swansong, the opera Nerone. Show more
Live from Oslo, four cantatas from Bach's Christmas Oratorio in a new version with accompaniments arranged for wind orchestra. With the BBC Singers and the Norwegian Wind Ensemble. Show more
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word, focusing on the surreal, with guests poet Ira Lightman, artist and writer Charlotte Cory and Michel Remy. Show more
In a series about key thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age, Professor Peter Adamson discusses the great Muslim philosopher Al-Farabi. Show more
Lopa Kothari with a tribute to Nelson Mandela including tracks by South African artists and tunes from around the continent. Plus, the results of the fRoots 2013 Critics Poll. Show more
Including Violeta Urmana and the Radio France Philharmonic performing music by Wagner in Paris and in tribute to Dutilleux, his Metaboles. Show more
