Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and suggestions for the annual musical advent calendar. Show more

James Jolly introduces 'golden' music inspired by the Record Review Building a Library recommendation of Puccini's La fanciulla del West. Plus songs by Karl Weigl. Show more

Folk singer Shirley Collins talks to Michael Berkeley about her musical passions and her 60-year career in folk music. Her musical choices include Handel, Boyce and Praetorius. Show more

From Wigmore Hall in London, a piano recital by Boris Giltburg. Bach arr Busoni: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565. Schumann: Papillons. Brahms: Piano Sonata No 1 in C. Show more

Guest presenter Dame Emma Kirkby selects some of her favourite seasonal music. Show more

From St Paul's Cathedral. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch's guest is composer Robin Holloway, who introduces some of his favourite choral music. Sara's Choral Classic is Gabrieli's 33-part Magnificat. Show more

Tom Service asks what is background music and how it functions in our lives. Including Satie's 'furniture music', Stimulus Progression, Brian Eno and Mozart serenades. Show more

Texts and music about pearls, with readings by Aysha Kala and Jude Akuwudike. With Pliny, Keats, Shakespeare and Steinbeck, plus Debussy, Bartok, Gershwin, Bruckner and Britten. Show more

Where can you go to find the avant-garde today? Does it still exist? Paul Morley meets up with artists, musicians, comedians and writers who think it still lives, just. Show more

Ian Skelly presents music by Mozart and Haydn performed at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota, plus Mahler and Schumann from Augsburg's Town Hall. Show more

Three linked stories set across the past 100 years, taking place on the sea defences of Morecambe Bay. By David Constantine. With David Sterne and Luke MacGregor. Show more

Elin Manahan Thomas introduces a concert of theatrical music from 18th-century France by Rameau, Leclair, Marais and de Mondonville performed by Les Ambassadeurs. Show more

Experimental pianist Francesco Tristano and the BBC Concert Orchestra perform Bach and Tristano's own 'free piano concerto' Island Nation at the 2016 EFG London Jazz Festival. Show more

Jonathan Swain presents performances by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaime Martin and Manfred Honeck, including Haydn's Paukenmesse. Show more