Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more

Rob Cowan presents the best in classical music, including potential companion pieces for Julius Caesar's aria from Handel's opera 'Va tacito e nascosto'. Show more

Could the Iron Curtain have made culture beyond Soviet borders more alluring? Donald Macleod explores music written by Russians determined to look beyond political boundaries. Show more

Scriabin's formidable 'Black Mass' sonata is paired with Rachmaninov's deeply felt piano and cello sonata in G minor as part of Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend at Cedars Hall. Show more

Verity Sharp presents Prokofiev's opera The Gambler in a recording from the Vienna State Opera. Prokofiev completed this exciting and energetic score in his late 20s. Show more

Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from fado singer Carminho and duo Paul and Huw Watkins. Plus conductor Adrian Chandler. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. Show more

A specially-curated mixtape including music by Mozart and Scarlatti, a powerful depiction of the Icelandic landscape from Jon Leifs, and a raging argument from Sergey Prokofiev. Show more

Stuart Flinders presents a concert of Wagner, Strauss and Verdi given by The Halle, conducted by Sir Mark Elder, depicting the conflict between spiritual and sensual love. Show more

Matthew Sweet travels to Canterbury, Portsmouth and the TFL offices in search of stories of the lost and found as part of the Being Human Festival running across UK universities. Show more

Political commentator and historian Tariq Ali recalls a tour of Constructivist Moscow in the 1980s that introduced him to the work of revolutionary architect Moisei Ginzburg. Show more

In London Jazz Festival week, Max Reinhardt presents a mixtape from Brooklyn-based jazz composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue. Show more

John Shea presents a programme of Chaminade, Francaix, Sollima and Glazunov with ATOS Trio and ZPR. Show more