Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Sarah Walker's choice of music includes Prokofiev's first piano concerto, a Gluck symphony and pastoral music from Dvorak. Show more
Actor Allan Corduner talks to Michael Berkeley about his favourite music, influenced by his Russian, Finnish and Jewish heritage. Show more
Anne Queffelec plays Bach, Handel and Scarlatti as the French pianist makes an overdue return to Wigmore Hall in London for a live concert. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Show more
Hannah French marks the 250th anniversary of the death of Telemann with a programme about his visit to Paris in 1737, with music including the celebrated Paris Quartets. Show more
Live from Gloucester Cathedral on the Feast of Luke the Evangelist. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of unmissable choral music and performances, including harmonies from Johannes Brahms and a popular coronation anthem by Handel. Show more
The Listening Service
Whatever Happened to the Waltz?
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom Service explores why the waltz swept through the musical world, what happened to it and why we love to dance to music in triple metre. With Darren Royston and Katie Derham. Show more
Actor Toby Jones is the reader in a programme running the terrain between loneliness and solitude with music from Mozart to Billie Holiday, words from John Clare to Ralph Ellison. Show more
Dr Alexandra Wilson dons her cloche hat and steps into the shoes of a flapper for a journey back to 1920s London and some of the venues where opera was thriving. Show more
Ian Skelly presents highlights from the Baltic Sea Festival 2017, which includes a new choral work by Martin Smolka and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting Sibelius's Lemmikainen Suite. Show more
Drama ranging over the centuries as three teenagers find themselves unwittingly recruited as foot soldiers in three very different ideological wars. By Jonathan Holloway. Show more
Hannah French introduces a recital of Bach and Telemann given by the young and versatile 'Nevermind' ensemble, recorded at 2017's Wallonie Festival in Brussels. Show more
Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture and excerpts from Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty performed by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Vassily Sinaisky. Show more
Through the Night
BBC Proms 2015: Elgar's 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 Dream of Gerontius with the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Sir Simon Rattle. Show more