Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Pearl Fishers Duet, Jigsaws, Prue Leith
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, and cookery writer and restaurateur Prue Leith talks about her inspirations and influences. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Sibelius's musical triumphs and personal troubles before the outbreak of the First World War as his drinking spiralled out of control. Show more
Pianist Imogen Cooper plays works by Beethoven and Thomas Ades's 'Darknesse Visible', inspired by John Dowland. Show more
Kate Molleson presents a performance of Falla's El amor brujo, for which the BBC Symphony Orchestra was joined by the flamenco singer Maria Toledo. Show more
Live from the Chapel of New College, Oxford on Ash Wednesday. Show more
Pianist Louis Schwizgebel plays Mozart, and Jennifer Johnston, Lise Berthaud and Christian Ihle Hadland perform one of Brahms's songs for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano. Show more
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. His guests include Studio de musique ancienne de Montreal, Maria Pages and Lisa Ueda. Show more
Queen Victoria mounts a rocking horse with quirky surrealism from William Walton, driving energy from MacMillan and brief respite from Bach. Plus Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Show more
The BBC Philharmonic and Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards in picture-inspired music from America. They are joined by pianist Peter Donohoe for Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Show more
Free Thinking
Mark Dion; Colour, Insects, Virginia Woolf
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Anne McElvoy meets artist Mark Dion who studies our studying of animals - plus Virgina Woolf's insect studies. Show more
Writer John Walsh examines the male desire to stand out, sartorially and in attitude. This time he hails Beau Nash and Oscar Wilde and the allure of fine details. Show more
Nick Luscombe presents Hawaiian tinged rebetika, traditional Gaelic psalm singing from the Hebrides and off-kilter Valentines. Show more
Through the Night
BBC Proms 2015: Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a world premiere by Raymond Yiu, and music by Britten, Nielsen and Janácek. With Catriona Young. Show more
