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

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is pianist Hélène Grimaud. With Georgia Mann. Show more

Donald Macleod considers Richard Strauss’s move to the Weimar Court Opera, and the ideas and philosophical discussions that led to Also sprach Zarathustra. Show more

Violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong perform chamber music by Brahms and Schumann alongside the Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio. Show more

Ivan Fischer conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. Show more

Sean Rafferty is joined by Estonian jazz pianist Kristjan Randalu performing live in the studio. Plus Nicky Spence talks to Sean ahead of his concert in Leeds.

In Tune's specially curated classical mixtape, including a familiar tune in an unfamiliar disguise. Show more

The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, plus Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, with baritone Kostas Smoriginas, and Gubaidulina’s Fairytale Poem. Show more

With an audience at Sage Gateshead for an overnight festival, crime writer Ann Cleeves, theologian Mona Siddiqui, poet Jake Morris-Campbell and sea expert Thom Linley on darkness. Show more

The Castle Keep sits upon ground previously occupied by the Roman fort Pons Aelius. Tara Bergin discovers two altar stones which were dredged up from the Tyne. Show more

Hannah Peel with a special mix featuring artists appearing at the After Dark Festival, including John Luther Adams's Dream in White on White, recorded live at the festival. Show more

Elizabeth Alker presents live music highlights from Christian Löffler, Darkstar and Kinbrae recorded at Radio 3’s After Dark Festival in Newcastle. Show more

Pianist Marianna Shirinyan performs Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. John Shea presents. Show more