Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Tuesday with Ian Skelly - Prue Leith, Bach's Italian Concerto, Fat Tuesday
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus Prue Leith reveals her cultural inspirations. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Sibelius's rise to prominence with his first big success Kullervo, countered shortly afterwards by both financial and marital problems. Show more
Ukrainian-born Australian pianist Alexander Gavryluk plays works by Haydn, Chopin, Scriabin and Rachmaninov. Kate Molleson presents. Show more
Kate Molleson continues her week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, including a concert the BBC Singers gave at the John Armitage Memorial Festival. Show more
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Sean's guests include Tim Mead, Michael Mofidian and Ciara Hendrick James Way and James Newby. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist includes Schubert, Handel and Brahms and begins with James Gourlay playing Gregson's Tuba Concerto. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
The BBC Singers: Mendelssohn's Bach St Matthew Passion
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Recorded at Milton Court in London, Peter Dijkstra conducts the BBC Singers and St James' Baroque in a performance of Mendelssohn's orchestration of JS Bach's St Matthew Passion. Show more
Free Thinking
Michael Ignatieff and Central Europe
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Michael Ignatieff, President of Central European University in Budapest, joins Philip Dodd, Guido Franzinetti and Wojciech Przybylski to debate political shifts in central Europe. Show more
Writer John Walsh examines the male desire to stand out, sartorially and in attitude. Now, back to the ancient world, to Caesar and Alcibiades and their renowned 'peacockery'. Show more
Nick Luscombe celebrates the unsung female composers who were influential in shaping the course of Minimalism. Show more
Through the Night
The Fifth International Harald Andersen Chamber Choir Competition
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
Catriona Young presents a concert given by three choirs as part of a choral competition in Finland, including music by Rautavaara, Part and Schutz. Show more