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
Thursday with Rob Cowan - The Talking Mongoose, James MacMillan's O Radiant Dawn, Antonio Pappano
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 finds opera to be alive and well in the 21st century. On the show, works by Boesmans, Ferneyhough and Barry that are to varying degrees 'comic'. Show more
Performances from mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston and baritone Gavan Ring from the Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2017 at Glenarm, Co Antrim. Show more
Tom Redmond presents a performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin as a tribute to baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Show more
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. His guests include the Ayoub Sisters, Angela Gheorghiu and the Heath Quartet. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist - a lavish quartet from Rigoletto, transcendent swans and leaping Lohengrin, plus Bartok, Joplin, Dvorak, Boulanger and Monteverdi. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
BBC NOW with conductor Tadaaki Otaka and cellist Steven Isserlis in Elgar. Plus Rachmaninov and Takemitsu.
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, Steven Isserlis joins the BBC NOW in Elgar's Cello Concerto. Plus Tadaaki Otaka conducts Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony and Takemitsu. Show more
Free Thinking
All About Eve: Stories of the Fall; Pregancy and Aphrodisiacs
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Stories of Adam and Eve - Stephen Greenblatt discusses how the story mutates in the Christian tradition, Islam Issa on differing interpretations in Islam. Show more
Brit Pliestik Jensen and Martin Ozvold trace the borders crossed by a wooden toy bought in Hamleys, Prague. Show more
Max Reinhardt remembers French composer Pierre Henry ahead of what would have been his 90th birthday with an exclusive new commission by Langham Research Centre. Show more
Through the Night
World Orchestra for Peace and Valery Gergiev from the 2014 BBC Proms
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
World Orchestra for Peace and Valery Gergiev from the 2014 BBC Proms. With Jonathan Swain. Show more