Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Tuesday with Rob Cowan - Tom Service in Russia, Vladimir Jurowski, Weber's Invitation to the Dance
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
Folk culture finds its way into Soviet music as Donald Macleod and Marina Frolova-Walker explore the cultural legacy of the Russian Revolution. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend 2017
Episode 1: Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend at Cedars Hall, Wells - Towards the Revolution
58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The Symbolist pictures of Prokofiev's Vision Fugitives, luminous Scriabin, and Rachmaninov's 1902 Variations on a Theme of Chopin. Show more
Verity Sharp introduces David Afkam conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in Shostakovich's 5th Symphony, continuing a week of concerts featuring major symphonic works. Show more
Sean Rafferty's guests include pianist Vikingur Olafsson, violinist Julian Rachlin, as well as Alice Coote and John Tomlinson. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. Show more
A specially curated mixtape including a wintry daydream with Tchaikovsky, Thomas Quasthoff singing Gershwin and Ravel's stunning Daphnis et Chloe.
Sir Mark Elder conducts the Britten Sinfonia in Finzi's The Fall of the Leaf, Mahler's Ruckert-Lieder and Brahms's First Symphony, in a concert at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden. Show more
Free Thinking
Martin Luther King, Poets and Political Protest
59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Jackie Kay, Fred D'Aguiar, Major Jackson and Kwame Dawes join Shahidha Bari as part of the Freedom City festival marking Martin Luther King's visit to Newcastle University in 1967. Show more
Poet and biographer Elaine Feinstein compares the impact of the Russian Revolution on the contrasting lives of the two great poets, Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva. Show more
Max Reinhardt presents a live concert from Rich Mix featuring Jaimeo Brown and Knower. Show more
Through the Night
Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. A performance of Gounod's Faust from Moscow
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
Gounod's Faust in a concert performance from Moscow, with a young Russian cast headed by Sergei Romanovsky as Faust. With John Shea. Show more