Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actor Stephen Mangan. Show more

Donald Macleod traces Tchaikovsky's long period of wandering, away from Russia, seemingly compelled by a disordered, unreconciled personal life Show more

Andrew McGregor and Lucy Parham introduce performances from semi-finalists Tamila Salimdjanova, Evelyne Berezovsky and Eric Lu from the 2018 Leeds competition. Show more

Tom Redmond introduces a performance of Verdi's beloved ancient Egyptian tragedy, Aida, from the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels as part of a Belgian-themed week. Show more

Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from Gramophone Award winner Marianne Crebassa and genre-fluid collective Classical Kicks. Plus choreographer Akram Khan. Show more

Half an hour of uninterrupted music themed around new beginnings. From daybreak to spring, from newly weds to breaking up and moving on, the music celebrates all things new. Show more

Edinburgh International Festival 2018: BBC SSO and Martyn Brabbins perform Thea Musgrave's Turbulent Landscapes, and Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony with Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Show more

The author of Birdsong in conversation with Anne McElvoy. Sebastian Faulks talks about depicting France past and present, from World War I to Algeria, in his new novel Paris Echo. Show more

Writer Polly Coles reads her fourth essay about Italy’s public spaces and shows how Italian garden culture over the centuries has often differed radically from that of Britain. Show more

Verity presents an exclusive mixtape by electronic musician James Holden exploring different notions of trance in music, recorded in front of a live audience at End of The Road. Show more

Monteverdi and Biber performed in Poland by Collegium Vocale 1704. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more