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 Performers are British choir Polyphony. Presented by Tom McKinney. Show more

Donald Macleod considers the profound influence Vaughan Williams's liberal-minded upbringing brought to bear on his thinking and his musical ambitions. Show more

The Julian Bliss Septet perform hits by Gershwin and his contemporaries. Show more

French cellist Gautier Capuçon plays Dvorak's Romantic Cello Concerto, plus extracts from Mozart's operas and works by Florence Price and Susan Spain-Dunk. Show more

Chamber music from Radio 3's New Generation Artists: the Mithras Trio play Brahms's Trio No 3 in C minor, Op 101, one of the masterpieces of the genre. Show more

Sean Rafferty is joined by the Aquinas Piano Trio who perform live in the studio, and conductor Andrew Litton talks about his new recording with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Show more

Today's In Tune Mixtape celebrates the arrival of May with music by Frederick Loewe, Vítězslav Novák, Schubert, John Blow, Poulenc and Chabrier. Show more

René Jacobs conducts the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Caldara's 1700 oratorio, Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo, with Joshua Ellicott, Giulia Semenzato and Marianne Beate Kielland. Show more

Composer Hannah Peel on The Unfolding, her new album with Paraorchestra, violinist Leila Josefowicz on a new work by Matthias Pintscher, and electronic music pioneer Janet Beat. Show more

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1902, Elsie Houston arrived in Paris as a 24-year-old and wowed audiences with songs in Afro-Brazilian dialect that fused folk with a soprano training. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

The Aizuri String Quartet perform Beethoven and Haydn, and pianist Alon Goldstein plays Mozart and Bernstein, from the WFMT Studios in Chicago, USA. Presented by John Shea. Show more