Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more

Sarah Walker presents music ranging from Hildegard of Bingen to Bax, by way of Corelli and Rachmaninov. Show more

As part of the BBC's opera season, designer Hildegard Bechtler talks to Michael Berkeley about her favourite music and some of the 27 operas she has worked on all over the world. Show more

Live from Wigmore Hall, Paul O'Dette plays lute music from 17th-century England, including works by Byrd, Johnson, Dowland and Bacheler. Show more

Fiona Talkington marks the 15th birthday of choir Exaudi by talking to director James Weeks and including music recorded at Wigmore Hall in London. Show more

An Archive recording from 2006 of Choral Vespers for the Feast of St Francis of Assisi from Montserrat Abbey, Spain, with the Pilgrim Consort. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch spotlights Verdi and Liszt, both in their church vestments, and a stunning new recording of MacMillan's The Gallant Weaver. Show more

Tom Service ponders silence as an integral part of music, from classical and avant-garde concert hall to techno dance floor. Show more

Kenneth Colley and Yolanda Kettle with readings from Descartes to Philip K Dick and music from Haydn and Handel to Ligeti and Reich in an exploration of robots and automata. Show more

John Tusa revisits three provincial German towns where in 1955, as a 19-year-old national serviceman, he discovered opera and finds out why, 62 years on, it's still thriving there. Show more

Ian Skelly presents performances from the German Radio Philharmonic and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras, featuring Beethoven and his contemporary, Vorisek. Show more

A radio production of Tom Stoppard's comic tragedy about the meaning and purpose of life and art, starring Derek Jacobi and Ian McDiarmid. Show more

Elin Manahan Thomas introduces a concert of music by Telemann, Hasse, Philidor and Boismortier from the Warsaw International Summer Academy of Early Music. Show more

Two works by Malcolm Arnold from opposite ends of his career - his early Clarinet Concerto No 1 and his final symphony, No 9. Show more

Catriona Young presents Cristian Orosanu condcuting the Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestr, featuring violinist Alexandru Tomescu. Show more