Elizabeth Alker's breakfast melange of classical music, folk, unclassified tracks, found sounds and the now 'world-famous' croissant corner. Show more
Record Review
Janacek's Jenufa in Building a Library with Nigel Simeone and Hannah French
2 hours, 47 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The ultimate recommendation for Janacek's opera Jenufa plus recent baroque releases reviewed by Anna Picard. Show more
Music Matters
Michael Tilson Thomas, Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Kate Molleson visits Glyndebourne Festival Opera to hear about its new production of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, and Tom Service meets conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Show more
This Classical Life
Jess Gillam with... Charlotte Politi
28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Jess chats with conductor Charlotte Politi about the music they both love, with a ballet by Tchaikovsky, an opera by Mozart, Isobel Waller-Bridge's Illuminations and The Supremes. Show more
Inside Music
Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber finds immediacy and rapture in music
1 hour, 56 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Julian Lloyd Webber opens up a selection of classical music from his point of view of a music educator and former cellist - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light. Show more
Canadian composer Lesley Barber talks to Matthew Sweet about her career in film and about writing music for films such as Manchester by the Sea and Mansfield Park.
Kathryn Tickell with this week's round-up of the latest roots-based music from across the world, plus a Road Trip to Syria with Maya Youssef. Show more
J to Z
Isfar Sarabski in concert, Melissa Aldana
1 hour, 29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Concert highlights from Azerbaijani piano virtuoso Isfar Sarabski, plus Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana’s inspirations. Show more
Opera on 3
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor from the Met
3 hours, 29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Soprano Nadine Sierra plays Lucia, Tenor Javier Camarena is Lucia’s beloved, Edgardo, with baritone Artur Ruciński as her overbearing brother, Enrico. Riccardo Frizza conducts. Show more
Tom Service presents new music in performance, including Jurg Frey's Second String Quartet and Cassandra Miller's Traveller Song. Show more
Corey Mwamba presents new music exploring energetic states inspired by Afrofuturism, dharmic principles and quantum physics. Show more
From Minneapolis, Osmo Vänskä conducts the Minnesota Orchestra in a programme of Gabrieli, Françaix, Mozart and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. With Catriona Young. Show more