Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
James Jolly introduces music with Polish connections including Bach's Cantata No 198, plus Gorecki and Szymanowski. The Best of British work is Arthur Bliss's A Colour Symphony. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is scholar and critic John Sutherland. His musical choices include pieces by Vaughan Williams, Britten and Mahler. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a solo recital in which pianist Lars Vogt performs Bach's celebrated Goldberg Variations, BWV988. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents a concert from the 2016 London Festival of Baroque Music. Soprano Roberta Invernizzi and lutenist Craig Marchitelli in Caccini, Piccinini and Carissimi. Show more
From Liverpool Cathedral. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces music from Russia, including a staple of the Orthodox liturgy that has become a choral classic. Meet My Choir features the Esterhazy Singers of London. Show more
The Listening Service
How do you describe a teaspoon in music?
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service explores how music is able to tell stories and create pictures in sound, from everyday actions to the most heartfelt emotions. With musicologist Kenneth Hamilton. Show more
With readings from Horace to Dickens performed by Julian Rhind-Tutt and Lia Williams, and music from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, Words and Music explores town and country. Show more
Sunday Feature
Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian Who Conquered La Scala
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Travelling to both Brazil and Milan, Fabio Zanon tells how Brazilian mixed-race composer Carlos Gomes conquered La Scala in the 19th century, becoming a hero at home too. Show more
Ian Skelly presents highlights of concerts from around Europe. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20; Piano Sonata in D, K576. Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra. Schubert: Symphony No 4. Show more
By Robin Brooks. Drama about Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ill-fated friendship with William Wordsworth and his infatuation with Sara Hutchinson. With Alex Waldmann and Tim McInnerny. Show more
Simon Heighes presents a concert given in Girona in which countertenor Carlos Mena and theorbo player Daniel Zapico perform music by Cesti, Kapsberger and Purcell. Show more
Following on from the Sunday Feature, a chance to hear more music by the Brazilian composer, including his Sonata in D and Act 1 of his best-known opera, Il Guarany. Show more
Through the Night
Proms 2015: Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius conducted by Simon Rattle
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Jonathan Swain presents a performance from the 2015 BBC Proms of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Simon Rattle. Show more
