Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Elgar's Salut d'amour, Marie Duval, Paul Whitehouse
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actor and comedian Paul Whitehouse. Show more
Donald Macleod charts the struggles and frustrations Gounod overcame to create one of his biggest hits, Faust. Show more
Tom McKinney with the second of four programmes in the Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Series, featuring the Pavel Haas Quartet and pianist Stephen Hough. Show more
Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performing music by Richard Strauss, including Also sprach Zarathustra and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche. Show more
Live from Portsmouth Cathedral. Show more
New Generation Artists
Duparc, Schumann and Dauprat from Fatma Said, Alec Frank-Gemmill and Annelien Van Wauwe
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Fatma Said sings Duparc and Alec Frank-Gemmill plays the charming Scottish Airs by Louis Dauprat, who died in 1868. Show more
In Tune
The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments, Niall Ashdown, Benjamin Appl
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty presents, with guests including members of the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments, who perform live, as do baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist Sholto Kynoch. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist featuring music by Charles Gounod and Jacob Gade as well as performances by Cara Dillon and New Generation Artists, Quatuor Arod. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
CBSO - Brahms, Shostakovich and the UK premiere of Simon Holt's Surcos
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Ilan Volkov conducts Brahms live from Symphony Hall, Alisa Weilerstein plays Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 2, plus a new work by Simon Holt is premiered. Show more
Douglas Murray, Ed Husain and Bari Weiss take us inside the 'intellectual dark web'. Show more
Lorenzo Lotto is one of Martin Gayford's favourite painters. But the quest to see his pictures 'in the flesh' in Italy turns out to be tortuous, even for the most devoted art.
Max Reinhardt examines the spaces between the notes of Joanna Brouk's electronic composition, the joys of Ghanaian highlife and a reggae hit with a beat as crisp as a new shirt. Show more
John Shea presents selections from masses by Machaut and Part from a concert by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Also includes works by Haydn, Rachmaninov and Mozart. Show more
