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
Wednesday with Rob Cowan - Life in the Arctic, Antonio Pappano, Farandole from Bizet's L'Arlesienne
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. Today, Shakespearean works by Ades and Sciarrino. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2017
Toby Spence, Jennifer Johnston
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Performances from 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 concert including Brahms's Fourth Symphony and a UK premiere from Caroline Shaw. Show more
Live from the Chapel of Keble College, Oxford. Show more
The Calidore Quartet play Tchaikovsky's First Quartet at the Norwich Playhouse in a concert they gave last summer at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by guests Paul McCreesh, She'koyokh and Sofia Fomina. Show more
A specially selected playlist of music including Schoenberg, Bruckner and Bach, plus movements from Ligeti's Musica Ricercata.
Live from the Barbican, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo mark 100 years of Finnish Independence with music by the young Sibelius, including the First Symphony. Show more
Jonathan Lerner on his time in the Weathermen - a Vietnam era protest movement. Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid. Brain scientist Tali Sharot. The Disaster Artist reviewed. Show more
Radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay with innovative miniature features. Vladimir Kryuchev investigates the spaces between stations on a radio dial. Show more
Max Reinhardt plays early 1970s Kansai folk-rock by the 'Japanese Joni Mitchell', psychedelic Indo-jazz from Arun Ghosh and sounds made in error. Show more
Through the Night
A series of concerts including Schubert, Liszt and Stravinsky
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Jonathan Swain presents a series of concerts including Schubert, Liszt, Stravinsky and more from Fishtail, Montana. Performers include Stephen Hough and the Ariel String Quartet. Show more
