Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British Playlist and listeners' musical requests and suggestions. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Bach at Christmas; Musical Challenge: Find the Fourth; pianist Martha Argerich; Sarah's Essential Choice: Schumann: Piano Quintet. Show more
Donald Macleod reflects on Vivaldi's bittersweet relationship with Vienna and introduces music from the final decade of his life, as musical tastes in Venice began to change. Show more
Music by Schubert: two part-songs, featuring Anna Prohaska, Elisabeth Kulman, Daniel Behle, Luca Pisaroni and Wolfram Rieger. Piano Sonata in B flat, D960, with Marc-Andre Hamelin. Show more
Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Schumann's Symphony No 4 in D minor, Op 120, and Brahms's Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98. Plus Acts 3 and 4 of Rameau's Zais. Show more
Emilia Fox and Jamie Glover read poetry and rose inspired by flowers. With music by Schumann, Delibes, Vaughan Williams, Richard Strauss, Robert Chilcott and Fats Waller. Show more
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) in Mozart: Fantasia in C minor. Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello) and Katya Apekisheva (piano) in Tchaikovsky: Pezzo Capriccioso. Plus Schubert's Winterreise. Show more
A Prom in which Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Seoul Philharmonic. Debussy: La mer. Unsuk Chin: Su (Wu Wei: sheng). Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 in B minor(Pathetique). Show more
Ian McMillan presents an extended interview with Ian McEwan. The novelist reveals his writing process, from a novel's first line, to the language of intimacy. Show more
Suzanne Joinson tells the story of when she found a box of letters on a stall in Deptford Market and began to read them. Show more
Mary Ann Kennedy present highlights from World on 3's Commonwealth Connections series, with music from some of the 53 countries taking part in the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Show more
Catriona Young's selection includes Bruch's First Violin Concerto, with soloist Nicola Benedetti and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton. Show more
