Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Record Review
Andrew McGregor with Alexandra Coghlan and Harriet Smith
3 hours, 13 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Andrew McGregor rounds up the best new and recent releases, and in Building a Library Alexandra Coghlan surveys the best recordings of music by Orlando Gibbons. Show more
Tom Service with conductor Jonathan Nott; the young Hubert Parry in Oxford & London; a new book on Robert & Clara Schumann; breath, body & electronics in the dance-opera Passion. Show more
Inside Music
Violinist Jennifer Pike's rich pick of classical discoveries
1 hour, 56 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Violinist Jennifer Pike opens up a colourful selection of classical music from the inside - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light. Show more
With the release of the new version of A Star Is Born with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, Matthew Sweet profiles music for films about stars in the making. Show more
Alyn Shipton's weekly pick of listeners' letters and emails asking for jazz favourites. Show more
A concert from one of the biggest names of jazz in recent years, vocalist Gregory Porter. Plus trumpeter Keyon Harrold on his musical inspirations. Show more
Andrew McGregor introduces David Sawer's new opera from Garsington Opera, and is joined by Fiona Maddocks to discuss this new opera on ice. Show more
Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf travels to her ancestral home of Jamaica for the first time on the trail of a letter from the Church to her grandmother, celebrating 67 years of service. Show more
A celebration of Ian Pace at 50, a virtuoso pianist who specialises in contemporary music. Ian plays music by Stockhausen, Finnissy, Dusapin, Rebecca Saunders and Ferneyhough. Show more
A hero to his sidemen and fans, if not all critics, Stan Kenton led one of the loudest, boldest bands in jazz till his death in 1979. Geoffrey Smith surveys his famous innovations.
Baritone Benjamin Appl explores the idea of home in a personal selection of songs, from Schubert to Poulenc. Catriona Young presents. Show more