Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, with the daily J S Bach Prelude and fugue from Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Klavier, plus listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday with Suzy Klein - The Nutcracker, Christmas Pigs, Brian Blessed
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, and Brian Blessed lists his cultural inspirations and influences. Show more
Donald Macleod explores J S Bach's time as Kapellmeister at the Court in Cothen for the 24-year-old Prince Leopold, where he was able to hone his orchestral style. Show more
A performance given at LSO St Luke's in London by violinist Isabelle Faust. Bach: Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWV1001; Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006; Sonata No 3 in C, BWV1005. Show more
Tom Redmond presents a concert live from Media City, Salford, in which the BBC Philharmonic performs a programme of Bach arrangements and pieces by Steve Elcock and Alban Berg. Show more
'A Blessing to the World' - an Advent Sequence recorded in Edington Priory Church during the 2017 Festival of Music within the Liturgy. Show more
Texts and music about pearls, with readings by Aysha Kala and Jude Akuwudike. With Pliny, Keats, Shakespeare and Steinbeck, plus Debussy, Bartok, Gershwin, Bruckner and Britten. Show more
New Generation Artists
Kathryn Rudge, Peter Moore, Van Kuijk Quartet, Annelien Van Wauwe
1 hour, 15 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces more from the current crop of young stars, the Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Trombonist Peter Moore plays a seldom-heard French sonata. Show more
In the second of his 'slow-radio' walks in the footsteps of Bach's 1705 journey to Lubeck, Horatio Clare enters the Harz Mountains and travels to the Brocken Summit. Show more
Proms 2017 Repeats
Prom 25: Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Presented by Georgia Mann from the Royal Albert Hall. Show more
Chris Bowlby explores how the Reformation shaped German culture and what it means today. He discovers the culture and kitsch in Wittenberg, where the Reformation began. Show more
Dr Charlotte Woodford explores the contribution to Martin Luther's reformation of his wife and theological sparring partner, Katharina Von Bora. Show more
Verity Sharp shares music for mid-winter, including Sufjan Stevens, Sudan Archives and David Cain. Sharp also looks to the Celtic Connections, celebrating its 25th anniversary. Show more
Through the Night
Catriona Young with concert music and opera, recorded from locations throughout Europe
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Arabella Steinbacher is the soloist in Prokofiev's 2nd Violin Concerto with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic. Also Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony. With Catriona Young. Show more
