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 how Vaughan Williams was freed from a creative block by a period of study with Ravel in Paris. Show more

The Armida Quartet perform Brahms's String Quartet No 3 in B flat and, with violist Pauline Sachse and cellist Eckart Runge, the sextet from Strauss's opera Capriccio. Show more

Leila Josefowicz plays Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, dedicated 'To the Memory of an Angel', and there's music by Handel, Schumann and Gershwin. Show more

Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by the Consone Quartet and violinist Irène Duval, who both perform live. Show more

An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises. Show more

Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński and Il Pomo d'Oro perform a programme of largely rare Baroque works at London's Wigmore Hall. Show more

Isaac Babel, born in Odessa in 1894, was a writer who chronicled the bloody birth of the Soviet Union. Show more

In 1821, Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater paved the way for drug memoirs. How do contemporary novelists help us see the global opium trade in a different way? Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.

Elizabeth Alker with a mix of ambient and experimental music that welcomes in the light, featuring choirs of singers both human and non-human. Show more