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
Thursday with Suzy Klein - Brian Blessed, Christmas Piggies
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 paints a portrait of a Bach family Christmas in Leipzig, where the family have moved so that Bach can take up his post as Cantor at the Thomasschule. Show more
Pieter Wispelwey (cello) in a solo recital given at LSO St Luke's in London. Bach: Cello Suite in C, BWV1009; Cello Suite in D, BWV1012. Show more
Penny Gore presents L'Etoile, Chabrier's sparkling opera, in a performance conducted by Mark Elder and recorded last year at the Royal Opera House. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of England and the English, with readings by Meera Syal and Philip Franks. With Linton Kwesi Johnson, plus Ades, Elgar, Cornershop, Byrd and Purcell. Show more
New Generation Artists
Ashley Riches sings Schubert's Schwanengesang. Andrei Ionite plays Schumann's Fantasy Pieces
1 hour, 15 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Clemency Burton-Hill continues the festive season of New Generation Artists Scheme performances. With bass-baritone Ashley Riches, trombonist Peter Moore and cellist Andrei Ionita. Show more
Horatio Clare's third 'slow-radio' walk in the footsteps of Bach's 1705 journey to Lubeck sees him wander among the beeches of the Oderwald on his way to the town of Wolfenbuttel. Show more
Proms 2017 Repeats
Mahan Esfahani and the Academy of Ancient Music play The Art of Fugue
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani joins the Academy of Ancient Music to perform Bach's Art of Fugue in an instrumental arrangement by Esfahani himself. Show more
Free Thinking
Breaking Free - How the Reformation Changed British Daily Life
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Alec Ryrie, Tom Charlton, Elizabeth Goodwin and Tara Hamling join Rana Mitter to discuss research into the way the Reformation changed lives in homes, parishes and monasteries. Show more
Dr Stephen Rose from Royal Holloway, University of London, discusses Johann Walther, the man behind Luther's musical Reformation. Show more
Acclaimed video artist Ed Atkins is the latest compiler of the Late Junction mixtape. Plus contrasting music from Ariel Pink, White Goblin, and the man in black, Johnny Cash. Show more
Through the Night
John Shea with concert music and opera, recorded from locations throughout Europe
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
John Shea presents the Romanian-Moldovan Youth Orchestra in Enescu, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. Show more
