Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more

Rob Cowan starts a short season of ballet suites with Richard Strauss's Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Show more

For New Year New Music, Michael Berkeley's guests is Irish composer Gerald Barry. His musical choices include Mozart, Stravinsky and Byrd. Show more

The Danish String Quartet play Haydn's Quartet in C, Op 54 No 2, and Shostakovich's Quartet No 9 at Wigmore Hall, London in 2015. Show more

Stevie Wishart presents a special New Year New Music programme. She takes a look at how early music resonates through the contemporary music of our time. Show more

From St Gabriel's Church, Pimlico, London with the Rodolfus Choir. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores contemporary choral music with guests including composer Sasha Johnson Manning. Birtwistle's The Moth Requiem is Sara's choral classic. Show more

In the words of Shakespeare, Milton, Burns and Carol Ann Duffy, John Sessions and Indira Varma elucidate the comedy and tragedy born of the apparent innocence of good intentions. Show more

Matthew Sweet explores the science fiction futures imagined by writers Naomi Mitchison, Rose Macaulay and Margot Bennett. With music specially composed by the Vile Electrodes. Show more

Celebrating the 80th birthday of German composer Helmut Lachenmann with music from a festival held in Stuttgart in November 2015. Lachenmann: String Trio; Trio fluido; Schreiben. Show more

Wole Soyinka's dramatic portrayal of colonial Nigeria in the 1940s. A colonial district officer intervenes to stop a local man committing ritual suicide. Show more

Works by Biber, Locke, Vivaldi and Bach performed by Il Giardino Armonico directed by Giovanni Antonini, recorded at the 2015 Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits three very different composers: sound recordist Chris Watson, composer and performer Jennifer Walshe and electronic musician Matthew Herbert. Show more

John Shea introduces a Polish performance of Schnittke's Faust Cantata and choral music by Penderecki and Schnittke from Sweden. Show more