Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Garden Gnomes, Alistair McGowan, Smetana's Prague Carnival
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod surveys the later life and work of the composers, especially Thomas Tomkins - the last surviving member of the group as England girded its loins for revolution. Show more
Tom McKinney with the last of four programmes in the Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Series, featuring baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Stephen Hough. Show more
Elizabeth Alker concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic, including Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor and Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D minor. Show more
Tom Service considers opera - capable of great profundity, why is it also so often ridiculous? Tom consults comic writer Armando Iannucci and soprano Lore Lixenberg. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news, with live music from pianist Daniil Trifonov. We're joined by soprano Ailyn Pérez, and the cellist Steven Isserlis too. Show more
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, with music that featured in the film Tous les Matins du Monde and an alternative take on Rimsky-Korsakov. Show more
Mother Goose - the BBC Philharmonic live from Blackburn in music by Ravel and Dvorak. They are joined by Ye-Eun Choi for Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 1 in D. Show more
This week The Verb is live at The Aldeburgh Festival in Snape Maltings. Joining Ian and a studio audience are Lavinia Greenlaw, Fiona Sampson and Mark Padmore. Show more
Harland Miller is an artist whose wordplay and dexterous brushwork has won him acclaim. He recalls how past decades have informed his work - it's back to New York and good fortune. Show more
Music Planet
Lopa Kothari with Girma Bèyènè and Akalé Wubé in session
1 hour, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Lopa Kothari introduces a specially recorded studio session by the Ethiopian singer Girma Bèyènè performing with French group Akalé Wubé. Show more
Global beats and roots music from every corner of the world, including Swedish nyckelharpa, Galician folk and the King of Rumba Rock, Papa Wemba.
Lü Jia conducts the Shanghai Philharmonic in Rachmaninov's Symphony No 2. John Shea presents. Show more