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 charts Vaughan Williams's progress as the young composer seeks out Max Bruch in Berlin with the aim of broadening his musical skills. Show more

From Edinburgh, the Armida Quartet play Mendelssohn's Capriccio for string quartet, and the SCO Chamber Ensemble with Maxim Emelyanychev on piano play Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet. Show more

German cellist Lukas Plag plays Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto, and there's music by Mozart and Richard Strauss. Show more

Live from the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge, with music by Hadley, Howells and Judith Weir. Show more

Paula Sides and Sergey Rybin from English Touring Opera perform extracts from Puccini and Rimsky-Korsakov. And Adam Kubota talks about Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox's tour. Show more

In Tune Mixtape: an eclectic mix of classical favourites and some unknown gems. Show more

Soprano Nicole Cabell and the LSO give the London premiere of George Walker’s Lilacs. Dvořák’s American Suite, Op 98b, and Schumann’s Second Symphony complete the programme. Show more

Film scholar Adam Scovell and art curator Dr Jennifer Sliwka are two of Shahidha Bari's guests in a discussion about the evolution of windows and the way we perceive them. Show more

The Shānāmeh or ‘Book of Kings’ by Ferdowsi includes King Alexander. What does this tell us about Persian attitudes towards the man the west celebrates as a military conqueror? Show more

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

Gautier Capuçon performs Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin and conductor Marie Jacquot. John Shea presents. Show more