Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist and Georgian Gems. Plus requests for amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artists of the Week: The Borodin Quartet; Guest: Actress Fiona Shaw; 15 Georgian Pleasures: Clementi: Duet in C, Op 3 No 1. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on what happened after Handel took the helm of the Royal Academy of Music: he created a string of highly-regarded operatic masterpieces. Show more
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Louis Schwizgebel in a Haydn piano sonata, Olena Tokar in songs by Rimsky-Korsakov and viola player Lise Berthaud in Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata. Show more
With Penny Gore. The BBC SO in Fricker: Dance Scene. Walton: Symphony No 1. Weir: Natural History. Elgar: Symphony No 1. Plus the Ulster Orchestra in Britten: Simple Symphony. Show more
In Tune
Ann Murray, Dennis Russell Davies, Dhafer Youssef, Kristjan Jarvi
1 hour, 20 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With guests including mezzo-soprano Ann Murray, conductor Dennis Russell Davies, oud player Dhafer Youssef and conductor Kristjan Jarvi. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on what happened after Handel took the helm of the Royal Academy of Music: he created a string of highly-regarded operatic masterpieces. Show more
Live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Donald Macleod presents a performance of Gounod's Faust, starring tenor Joseph Calleja as Faust, Bryn Terfel and Sonya Yoncheva. Show more
The Essay
In Praise of the Midlands
Episode 2: Erasmus Darwin - 'The Leonardo da Vinci of the Midlands'
15 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Writer and critic Henry Hitchings discusses Erasmus Darwin, one of the leaders of the Midland Enlightenment. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents a varied selection of music. Show more
Including from the 2013 Proms: Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome in Mozart's Haffner Symphony and Schumann's Piano Concerto, with Jan Lisiecki. Show more