Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Thursday with Ian Skelly - Wagner, Lynne Truss, Waulking songs
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music plus this week's guest, writer Lynne Truss. Show more
Choral director Jeremy Summerly and Donald Macleod go in search of that elusive master of the Renaissance era, Josquin des Prez. Today, Josquin as craftsman and innovator. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Schumann's Kerner Lieder and David's Bruce's Gumboots at St George's Bristol
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Schumann's Kerner Lieder, performed by Mark Padmore with Julius Drake, and clarinettist Julian Bliss joins the Carducci Quartet in David Bruce's Gumboots at St George's Bristol. Show more
The BBC Philharmonic and Chief Conductor Juanjo Mena in Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. They are joined by Mark Simpson for Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto. Show more
Tom Service's guests include composer and pianist Julian Joseph, innovative singer Nora Fischer and pianist Bertrand Chamayou. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: Music to put a smile on your face. Show more
Live at the BBC Proms: double Grammy Award winner Jacob Collier teams up with Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest for a special collaboration at the Proms. Show more
Sunday Feature
Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Where can you go to find the avant-garde today? Does it still exist? Paul Morley meets up with artists, musicians, comedians and writers who think it still lives, just. Show more
In his series of imaginary correspondences with some of literary history's most celebrated figures, novelist Ian Sansom is writing a letter of apology to Virginia Woolf. Show more
Max Reinhardt shares his favourite tearjerking tracks including music by Jacques Brel, Aretha Franklin and the signature sound of grief in Elizabethan English folk. Show more
John Shea presents a concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Estonia given by the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arvo Volmer. Show more