Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.
Record Review
Haydn's operas in Building a Library with Roger Parker and Andrew McGregor
2 hours, 47 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Roger Parker chooses his favourite recordings of Haydn's operas, plus new releases of piano music. Show more
Music Matters
Scottish Opera at 60, Jan Carson, Felix Yaniewicz exhibition
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Kate Molleson marks Scottish Opera's sixtieth anniversary, previews an exhibition about Polish-Lithuanian violinist Felix Yaniewicz in Edinburgh, and talks to writer Jan Carson. Show more
This Classical Life
Jess Gillam with... Maya Youssef
27 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Jess Gillam is joined by qanun player Maya Youssef for a listening party, including jazz funk by Toufic Farroukh, spine-tingling violin by Philip Glass and an earworm by Dvorak. Show more
Inside Music
Jazz pianist and composer Tom Donald with some musical mischief
1 hour, 56 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Tom Donald opens up a selection of classical music from a pianist and composer’s point of view - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light. Show more
Matthew Sweet marks the 40th anniversary re-release of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan with music for the film franchise by Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner and Michael Giacchino. Show more
Kathryn Tickell with the latest roots-based music from across the world and a Road Trip to the Son para Milo Festival in Mexico City. Show more
J to Z
Issie Barratt’s INTERCHANGE live in Leeds
1 hour, 29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Concert highlights from composer and baritone sax player Issie Barratt’s all-female ensemble INTERCHANGE at the inaugural Leeds Jazz Festival. Show more
Opera on 3
Leoš Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
3 hours, 29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Recorded at English National Opera, Sally Matthews sings the title role and Martyn Brabbins conducts Janáček's late, great pantheist hymn to nature, The Cunning Little Vixen. Show more
Graeae Theatre and BBC Concert Orchestra combine in Errollyn Wallen's new opera The Paradis Files about 18th-century musician Maria Theresia von Paradis. Jenny Sealey directs. Show more
Tom Service introduces a performance of Tom Coult's new opera Violet, which explores ideas about a woman and the collapsing of time, recorded at this year's Aldeburgh Festival. Show more
Corey Mwamba presents improvised music made through long distance collaborations, including an old recording reworked across time and new recordings made online. Show more
Through the Night
Alondra de la Parra conducts Bernstein, Ginastera and Efraín Oscher
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
The WDR Radio Orchestra, with New York-born Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, perform the Double Bass Concerto by Efrain Oscher with soloist Edicson Ruiz. Show more
