Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Friday with Ian Skelly - Contentious cyclists, Simon Armitage, Scherzo from Vaughan Williams' London Symphony
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Ian Skelly's guest is poet Simon Armitage. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the years Liszt spent splitting his time between Rome, Weimar and Budapest – what he called his 'threefold existence'. Show more
Pianist Sam Haywood curates the last in a series of concerts from The Venue at Leeds College of Music, exploring the chamber music of Franz Schubert. Show more
An all-Bohemian concert featuring music by Zdenek Fibich, Eugen Suchon and Leos Janacek followed by the last cantata for the week plus Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents, with special Burns Night guests, folk collective Band of Burns. Show more
Hush... In Tune's specially curated playlist ventures into a capricious dream world of sighs, cries, chimeras and witches Show more
Lawrence Power and Friends play two great piano trios. Show more
An extended conversation with poet Don Paterson. Together, Ian and Don take a forensic look at Don's language map, from inspiration to learning when to give up on a poem. Show more
Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing. Sitting on a bench in Scarborough station, the author recalls the coastal Yorkshire of his youth. Show more
Music Planet
Sharon Shannon in concert from Celtic Connections, presented by Kathryn Tickell
1 hour, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Sharon Shannon in concert at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, in a double bill with Irish folk supergroup Usher's Island. Introduced by Kathryn Tickell. Show more
Global beats and roots music from every corner of the world, with music from Uruguay, Tuva, Congo and England. Show more
Conductor Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Dresden are joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Sibelius's Violin Concerto, followed by Elgar's First Symphony. With John Shea. Show more