Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Sarah Walker's Sunday escape features Beethoven's Romance in F for violin and orchestra, alongside contrasting works from Handel, Brahms and Mozart. Show more
Michael Berkely's guest is screenwriter Ronan Bennett, whose latest drama series on the BBC, Gunpowder, dramatises the story of Guy Fawkes from the point of view of the Catholics. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, chamber ensemble Florilegium perform baroque masterpieces, including works by Telemann, JS Bach, Rameau and Jean-Fery Rebel. Show more
Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by The Tallis Scholars at Bridgewater Hall featuring the two winners of 2017's National Centre for Early Music Young Composers' Award. Show more
Live from Salisbury Cathedral for the Feast of All Saints. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of the very best organ music and performances, including Bach interpreted by Percy Grainger, Mozart for four hands and a sonata by Mendelssohn. Show more
The Listening Service
Shostakovich's Symphony No 15
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Ahead of Radio 3's 'Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture' season, Tom Service explores Shostakovich's baffling late masterpiece, his Symphony No 15. Show more
A sequence of readings and music from Russia in the last century, from banned early novels to futuristic post-Soviet writing and with music by Prokofiev and Schnittke. Show more
Millions of Russians fled their home after the Bolshevik revolution. Lucy Ash compares the experience of those emigres a century ago with the current exodus from Putin's Russia. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Verbier Festival Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev. Tchaikovsky
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly presents an all-Tchaikovsky concert given by the Verbier Festival Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev. Janine Jansen joins the orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Show more
Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres direct Fathers and Sons by Brian Friel, a dynamic dramatisation of Turgenev's novel. Show more
Soprano Lucia Cirillo performs excerpts from Handel's oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, with Swiss orchestra I Barocchisti conducted by Diego Fasolis. Show more
Through the Night
Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. Pianist Andrei Korobeinikov in a recital from Moscow
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
John Shea presents a piano recital from Moscow featuring sonatas by Chopin and Liszt. Show more
