Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more

Sarah Walker's Sunday Escape is a piece to take people away from the travails of daily life, Gerald Finzi's Severn Rhapsody. Show more

Michael Berkeley guest is actress Frances Barber. Her musical choices include Chopin, Schubert, Michael Nyman, Bertolt Brecht and the Pet Shop Boys. Show more

From Wigmore Hall in London, recent Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Apollon Musagete Quartet play Sibelius, Puccini and Grieg. Show more

Lucie Skeaping marks the 350th anniversary of the birth of Francois Couperin by looking at the four suites of chamber music he wrote for Louis XIV - Les Concerts Royaux. Show more

Live from Magdalen College, Oxford. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of the very best organ music and performances. Including works by Sibelius, Vierne and Pachelbel. Show more

Tom Service is joined by jazz pianist Julian Joseph to discover its earliest African-American origins right up to current-day Blues music and its influence on classical musicians. Show more

Jemima Rooper and Ewan Bailey read works relating to metallic elements by Wilfred Owen, Afua Cooper and others, with music by composers including Grieg, John Adams and Kraftwerk. Show more

Lindsay Johns argues that South African novelist Alex La Guma is an overlooked literary colossus who should be restored to his rightful place at the heart of the literary canon. Show more

Clemency Burton-Hill presents recent concert recordings of orchestras in Switzerland, including the Zurich Tonhalle in Mendelssohn and l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Scriabin. Show more

By Samantha Ellis. The story of how Corinne Jaber staged Love's Labour's Lost in Kabul in 2005. Based on A Night in the Emperor's Garden by Stephen Landrigan and Qais Akbar Omar. Show more

Elin Manahan Thomas presents a sequence of vocal music by Bach and his predecessors, performed by L'Arpeggiata under their director Christina Pluhar. Show more

Music by Leonard Bernstein performed by Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, recorded at the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion day. Show more

Tchaikovsky concert from the National Symphony Orchestra of Greece, acclaimed pianist Konstantinos Destounis is the soloist in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1. With John Shea. Show more