Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Building a Library focuses on Puccini's opera Il Tabarro with Anna Picard and Andrew Mellor discusses organ music. Presented by Andrew McGregor. Show more
Music Matters
Julian Anderson; Kenneth MacMillan tribute
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews composer Julian Anderson, and remembers choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan with the help of former dancer Viviana Durante and composer Brian Elias. Show more
Baritone, writer, director and broadcaster Simon Butteriss explores comedy in opera. With Mozart, Rossini, Sullivan, Strauss, Offenbach, Bernstein, Verdi, Lehar and others. Show more
Matthew Sweet showcases music inspired by disaster movies as Geostorm, featuring music by Lorne Balfe, is finally released. Show more
Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes a performance by prolific French violinist Michel Warlop. Show more
Kevin Le Gendre celebrates the centenary of iconic jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, plus an interview with UK saxophonist Courtney Pine. Show more
To mark Jonas Kaufmann's 50th birthday, another chance to hear him sing the title role in Verdi's Otello from the Royal Opera House, conducted by Antonio Pappano, recorded in 2017. Show more
As the crisis in their country continues, Sara Davies joins the producers and presenters of a Syrian radio station broadcasting back into Syria from their exile in Istanbul. Show more
Kate Molleson presents highlights from the day's events at London's Barbican Centre, uncovering the many faceted musical voice of one of the UK's most distinguished composers. Show more
Geoffrey Smith celebrates Dizzy Gillespie's legendary career and influence with classic recordings featuring such fellow immortals as altoist Charlie Parker. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a concert given by the Labeque sisters featuring Poulenc's Concerto in D minor for 2 pianos with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Show more