Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Thursday with Ian Skelly - A Puritan Christmas, Michael Morpurgo
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Ian Skelly's guest is author Michael Morpurgo. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of German early Baroque master Heinrich Schutz. Things turn serious as Schutz is swept up in the convulsions of the Thirty Years’ War. Show more
Andrew McGregor presents highlights from this year's Oxford Lieder Festival 2018, a grand tour of Europe in song, including works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert and Mart Saar. Show more
Gounod's Faust in a production by the Teatro Real in Madrid starring Piotr Beczala, Luca Pisaroni and Marina Rebeka. Presented by Jonathan Swain Show more
Adjoa Andoh and Rory Kinnear explore human sins with poetry by Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy and Stevie Smith and music by Kurt Weill, Mahler and Takemitsu. Show more
New Generation Artists
Ashley Riches in Finzi and Mariam Batsashvili in Liszt
1 hour, 14 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Pianist Mariam Batsashvili plays Liszt's transcendental Apres une lecture du Dante and Ashley Riches sings Finzi's Earth and Air and Rain, set to poems by Thomas Hardy. Show more
Proms 2018 Repeats
Prom 62 repeat: Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Vasily Petrenko, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Strauss, Elgar, Bartok and a world premiere by Iain Bell Show more
The Glory of Polyphony
Byrd, Cornysh and the Eton Choirbook
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Peter Phillips shares his passion for Renaissance choral music by exploring the lives and works of two English composers born a century apart: William Cornysh and William Byrd. Show more
In his final show as guest editor, Stewart Lee presents a mixtape from recorder player and violinist Laura Cannell. Show more
Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan perform sonatas by Mozart, Prokofiev and Franck at the Palau de Musica in Barcelona. Presented by Catriona Young Show more