Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, with the daily J S Bach Prelude and fugue from Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier, plus listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Monday with Rob Cowan - Antonio Pappano, Corinthian Spirit, Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Rob Cowan presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music. Royal Opera House Music Director Antonio Pappano lists his cultural influences and inspirations. Show more
Donald Macleod gives opera a health-check, and finds it to be alive and well in the 21st century, featuring works by Glass, Saariaho, Goebbels and Benjamin. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Celine Moinet and Florian Uhlig
58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Celine Moinet, oboe, and Florian Uhlig, piano, perform music from the Romantic era. Show more
Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Pietari Inkinen conducts Beethoven's Symphony No 1 in C and Sibelius' Symphony No 5 in E flat. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents, with live performances from early music group Joglaresa and flautist Juliette Bausor. Plus conductor Nicholas Collon. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist featuring music by Vivaldi, Sibelius and CPE Bach, as well as Gershwin in rhythmic mode.
Chineke! Orchestra, Europe's first majority BME orchestra, follows up their 2017 Proms debut with a concert from St George's Bristol, featuring two classics for string orchestra. Show more
Tom Service examines sexual harassment in classical music; also talks to Nancy November about her book 'Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna'. Show more
Radio producers from around the world take over The Essay with innovative mini-features. In this first episode, Duncan Speakman and Tineke De Meyer circumnavigate Ghent in Belgium. Show more
Soweto Kinch presents trumpeter and vocalist Jay Phelps's Quartet in concert at Pizza Express, Soho, while Emma Smith meets virtuosic Proms pianist Hiromi. Show more
Through the Night
Performances from Dublin of works by Peteris Vasks & Shostakovich
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
Jonathan Swain presents a performance from Dublin of Peteris Vasks' Violin Concerto 'Distant Light' and Shostakovich's tenth symphony. Show more