Clemency Burton-Hill 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
Tuesday with Rob Cowan - Antonio Pappano, Whiskers, Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine
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 Birtwistle, Dillon, Andriessen, Harvey and Stockhausen. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2017
Gavan Ring, Toby Spence, Jennifer Johnston
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Performances from baritone Gavan Ring, tenor Toby Spence and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston from the Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2017 at Glenarm, Co. Antrim. Show more
Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford, MediaCityUK,, featuring music by David Matthews and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. Show more
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Sean's guests include James McVinnie, John Rutter and The Horne Section. Show more
A specially selected playlist including music by Haydn and Mozart, moments from Stockhausen's electronic work 'Hymnen', and a track by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Radio 3 in Concert
Temple Song 2017: Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake and the Piatti Quartet
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert from Middle Temple Hall, with Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake and the Piatti Quartet performing Purcell, Haydn and Benjamin Britten. Show more
Free Thinking
Russia: Totalitarianism and Punishment
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Masha Gessen on tracing the lives of four Russians born as the Soviet Union crumbled. Daniel Beer looks at Tsarist prisons in Siberia. Mary Dejevsky analyses Putin's power. Show more
Radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay with innovative miniature features. Laura Barton criss-crosses the States to gaze at the moon. Show more
Cairo-born musician, composer and mover and shaker Maurice Louca from Lekhfa and The Dwarfs of East Agouza talks to Max about the experimental music scene in the city and beyond. Show more
Through the Night
A concert by Donald Runnicles and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Bruckner's 8th Symphony by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Donald Runnicles from the 2012 BBC Proms. Show more
