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

A round-up of the best new classical recordings plus, in Building a Library, David Owen Norris compares recordings of Edward Elgar's Violin Sonata and picks a favourite. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch reports on the decline of music A levels, talks to pianist Sulamita Aronovsky at 90, and the new book, Music and Faith in a Post-Secular Age. Show more

Jess Gillam and Jonathon Heyward share Boulez conducting Stravinsky, an intimate Satie song, plus Stevie Wonder and Madeleine Peyroux. Show more

Conductor Nicholas Collon opens up a colourful selection of classical music from the inside - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light. Show more

Matthew Sweet with a selection of Cold War inspired film music for films centres around the Berlin Wall marking the release this week of 'Balloon' with music by Marvin Miller. Show more

Recordings by Billie Holiday, Erroll Garner and Sonny Rollins. Show more

One of Austria's most exciting current jazz bands, Shake Stew, in concert with sax from Shabaka Hutchings. Plus, multi-instrumentalist Django Bates shares his musical inspirations. Show more

Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in a darkly comic new production from Welsh National Opera starring Gwyn Hughes Jones. Presented by Andrew McGregor with Sarah Lenton. Show more

Tom Service with music by Hawar Tawfiq, Linas Baltas, Rebecca Saunders and Pauline Oliveros. Plus, Robert Worby interviews Jennifer Walshe. Show more

Geoffrey Smith salutes a unique free-jazz pioneer, Lennie Tristano, who influenced the likes of Bill Evans and Charles Mingus, while creating coolly radical music of his own. Show more

A concert given by the string section of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, presented by Catriona Young. Show more