Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Monday with Rob Cowan - Vladimir Jurowski, Onfim, Shostakovich's Romance from The Gadfly
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Rob Cowan presents potential companion pieces for a well-known piece of music, and conductor Vladimir Jurowski lists his inspirations and influences. Show more
Donald Macleod charts Soviet music from 1953 - the year of Stalin's death. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Gabriela Montero plays Schumann's Kinderszenen and Shostakovich's Second Piano Sonata, plus her own improvisations. Show more
Verity Sharp introduces a concert in which Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducts the Dresden Staatskapelle in Symphonies Nos 1 and 15 by Shostakovich. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents, with guests including Russian maestro Valery Gergiev, jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim and his band Ekaya, and tenor Lawrence Brownlee. Show more
A specially curated mixtape including music by Beethoven, Chopin, Handel as well as pulsating music Steve Reich and before Ravel jumps in to round it all off. Show more
The BBC Philharmonic present Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' and Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony in a concert at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Show more
Music Matters
Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Breaking Free - A Century of Russian Culture: Tom Service meets controversial Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis. Show more
Musicologist Tamsin Alexander considers the music of Alexander Mosolov, inspired by the industrial sounds of the Soviet Union, and the only composer to be sent to the Gulag. Show more
Soweto Kinch presents Tomasz Stanko's Quartet in concert at London's Cadogan Hall as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival.
Through the Night
BBC Proms 2015. Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Schubert 9
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
John Shea presents. BBC Proms 2015. Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Bernard Haitink peform Schubert's 9th Symphony. Show more