Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Friday with Ian Skelly - Bolcom's Graceful Ghost, Paul Whitehouse, Skeddadle
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actor and comedian Paul Whitehouse. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Gounod's late operas, Polyeucte and Cinq-Mars, and considers his contemporaries' view of his music. Show more
Tom McKinney with the last of four programmes in the Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Series, featuring baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Stephen Hough. Show more
Kate Molleson with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Plus music by Schumann, Prokofiev and Bo Holten. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of conversation, arts news and live performance. With violinist Isabelle Faust, conductor John Eliot Gardiner and pianist Mariangela Vacatello. Show more
In Tune's daily playlist with music chosen specially by Danielle de Niese. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Conductor Eric Stern celebrates Bernstein's centenary with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Conductor Eric Stern celebrates Bernstein's centenary with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, soprano Emily Birsan and clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe. Show more
Ian McMillan is joined by Michael Ondaatje for a special edition of The Verb dedicated to his work. Show more
Anselm Kiefer, one of the greatest living painters, keeps a vast museum of work and materials, like part of a ruined civilisation, in the south of France. Martin Gayford visits.
Kathryn Tickell's programme features West African supergroup Les Amazones d'Afrique recorded live at Hay Festival, a mixtape from A Hawk and a Hacksaw, and a road trip to Ghana. Show more
John Shea presents a concert given by NeoBarock in Herne, Germany. Includes works by Erlebach, Walter and Vierdanck and, later in the programme, Dvorak, Debussy and Brahms. Show more