Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Plus neglected composers and amateur music groups. Show more

With Rob Cowan. Essential CD of the Week: Bach - Mihaela Ursuleasa and Romanian Rhapsody; A brainteaser; Artist of the Week: Antal Dorati; Bill Oddie; Bartók: Dance Suite. Show more

Donald Macleod focuses on the years after Rossini turned his back on opera for good. Show more

The Trusler-Carroll-Wass Trio perform Tchaikovsky's great A minor trio, to round off this week's celebration of Tchaikovsky's songs and chamber music live from Glasgow. Show more

Louise Fryer with music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Zarzycki: Mazurka. Sibelius: Symphony No 1. Beethoven: Violin Concerto. Stravinsky: The Firebird. Show more

Live from Salford, Sean Rafferty presents live music, interviews and news from the arts world.

Donald Macleod focuses on the years after Rossini turned his back on opera for good. Show more

BBC Philharmonic/HK Gruber, James MacMillan. Maxwell Davies: Throstle's Nest Junction. Gary Carpenter: SET. MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. Gruber: Dancing in the Dark. Show more

Presented by Ian McMillan. With James Lasdun exploring the writing process, Ben Schott on the pleasures of German compound nouns and conversation with dramatist Chris Bartlett. Show more

Welsh poet Gillian Clarke counts the human cost of quarrying Snowdonia's ubiquitous slate, which has roofed every house she has ever lived in. Show more

Mary Ann Kennedy has tracks from across the globe, a studio session with guitarist Eduardo Niebla and part four of Commonwealth Connections, with music from Barbados and Mauritius. Show more

Arias by the 17th-century Italian Pietro Antonio Cesti from a concert at the 2013 RheinVokal Festival by soprano Raquel Andueza with La Galania. Presented by John Shea. Show more