Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Friday with Ian Skelly - Mendelssohn Fruhlingslied, Dame Penelope Keith, The Decline of Archery
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, and Dame Penelope Keith shares her cultural inspirations and influences. Show more
Donald Macleod looks on as Handel reinvents himself as a composer of English oratorio and introduces the work widely regarded as Handel's most fundamentally English creation. Show more
Former Radio 3 New Generation Artist, baritone Benjamin Appl, and pianist Sholto Kynoch in the last of four recitals from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Show more
Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today includes a concert they gave at the Barbican in November. Show more
In Tune
Arcus Quartet, Vladimir Jurowski, Benjamin Baker, Jonathan Bloxham, Daniel Lebhardt
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Sean's guests include the Arcus Quartet, Vladimir Jurowski, and the Northern Chords Festival Ensemble. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist, featuring music by Chopin and Satie, plus Slavonic, Yiddish and Russian dances. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
BBC SO, Paul Watkins, Sir Andrew Davis in Finzi and Shostakovich
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from the Barbican, the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis performs Finzi's Cello Concerto with soloist Paul Watkins and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. Show more
How do you write a fight? Ian McMillan and Hollie McNish are joined by Ross Sutherland, Ben Crystal, Willy Vlautin and Theresa Lola to talk about punching with a pen. Show more
Five writers on the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely. Poet Lavinia Greenlaw contemplates the road ahead. The road ahead that is shrouded in darkness. Show more
Lopa Kothari presents a special programme from Celtic Connections in Glasgow, with sets from Daoiri Farrell, Low Lily from the USA, the Lian Band from Iran, and Glasgow's own Imar. Show more
BBC Proms 2017: Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin with violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Sibelius's Violin Concerto, followed by Elgar's First Symphony. With John Shea. Show more