Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Thursday with Ian Skelly - Siân Phillips, American Cocktails, Beatus Vir
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actress Sian Phillips. Show more
Donald Macleod explores how Dvorak's Slavonic Dances set off 'Dvorakmania' in Germany. Plus a complete performance of the Wind Serenade. Show more
Highlights of the 2018 Schwetzingen Festival with Sarah Walker. The Minguet Quartet perform Mozart plus a rare chance to hear Anton Webern's early Piano Quintet. Show more
Tom McKinney introduces a performance from the 2017 Salzburg Festival of Mozart's last opera, a tale of sexual obsession and divided loyalties, set in Ancient Rome. Show more
In Tune
Mark Elder, Richard Boothby, Dobrinka Tabakova, Lore Lixenberg and Woodrow Kernohan
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of conversation, arts news and live performance, with Mark Elder, Richard Boothby, Dobrinka Tabakova, Lore Lixenberg and Woodrow Kernohan. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist, including music by Schutz, Dave Brubeck and Saint-Saens. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Schoenberg's Gurrelieder
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts an augmented Philharmonia Orchestra, massed choirs and soloists in Arnold Schoenberg's epic Gurrelieder, a tale of illicit love and redemption. Show more
Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Fun Home on stage, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker by Olivia Laing and a new book on Oscar Wilde's time in America. Matthew Sweet presents. Show more
New Generation Thinker Seb Falk explores, with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas, the trilingual lawyer poet whose response to political upheaval has lessons for our times. Show more
Verity Sharp travels to Cambridge for this month's experimental music showcase featuring music from C Joynes, Pete Um and Rachel Watkins. Show more
A Late Junction mixtape selected by Ghanaian singer, rapper and highlife icon Ata Kak. Show more
Catriona Young presents a recital from the 2016 International Chopin Piano Festival in Poland given by pianist Vadym Kholodenko. Also includes Saint-Saens's 'Organ' Symphony'. Show more