Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Record Review
Andrew McGregor with Simon Heighes and Sarah Devonald
3 hours, 12 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Simon Heighes looks at Handel's Concerti a due cori in Building a Library, and Sarah Devonald rounds up recent releases of wind and brass music. Show more
Kate Molleson explores dialect in Manchester's broadside ballads, and talks to Matthew Herbert about his new book. Show more
Composer Rachel Portman opens up a colourful selection of classical music from the inside - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light. Show more
Sound of Cinema
Episode 1: Post War British Novelists
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Matthew Sweet explores music for films inspired by contemporary British novelists in the week that sees the release of On Chesil Beach, based on the novel by Ian McEwani. Show more
Alyn Shipton plays a wide range of jazz, including tracks featuring two very different American guitarist - mainstreamer Howard Alden and avant-garde player Mary Halvorsen. Show more
The best in jazz - past, present and future. Jumoke Fashola presents Polish pianist Vladyslav Sendecki in concert and Pat Metheny on the music that shaped his playing. Show more
Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk from the Royal Opera House, starring soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Brandon Jovanovich, conducted by Antonio Pappano. Show more
Tom Service introduces music from the opening concert of 'Sounds and Visions' - a weekend devised by composer Max Richter and artist Yulia Mahr and recorded at the Barbican. Show more
Though a superstar of soul and R&B, Ray Charles had deep jazz roots that stamped everything he did. Geoffrey Smith picks tracks by one of the mightiest swingers of them all. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a BBC Prom from 2017 featuring Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Show more