Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth. Presented by Georgia Mann. Show more
Donald Macleod delves into Victoria’s last publication, his Requiem for the death of the Dowager Empress Maria. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Michael Collins and Friends at LSO St Luke's (4/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
In the final concert this week by clarinettist Michael Collins and friends, the Heath String Quartet join him in Howells's Rhapsodic Quintet and the Clarinet Quintet by Brahms. Show more
French violinist Renaud Capuçon is joined by compatriot Gerard Causse in Mozart's sublime Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola. Show more
The Listening Service
Countertenors - classical rock gods!
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
From Frankie Valli and Jimmy Somerville to Andreas Scholl and Lawrence Zazzo - Tom Service on the male singers hitting the high notes. Show more
Tenor Mark Padmore sings live in the studio, and Frederick Waxman talks to Sean Rafferty about Figure Ensemble's upcoming performance of Handel's opera Serse in Holland Park. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Pictures at Exhibitions at the Aldeburgh Festival
2 hours, 58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The BBC Symphony Orchestra premieres Oliver Knussen's Cleveland Pictures, performs two ravishing Mussorgsky scores, and Martin Owen is soloist in Knussen's dreamlike Horn Concerto. Show more
Ian McMillan explores the language and complexities of male friendship with poets Michael Pedersen and Daljit Nagra, comedian Max Dickins, and writer and film expert Adam Scovell. Show more
Joanna Robertson says it is the small details that shape our lives. Drinking a coffee in a cafe becomes miraculous when everything observed around it coalesces into the one moment. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares the results of our latest long-distance collaboration session, with London-based avant-garde saxophonist Lara Jones and Argentinian sound sculptor Aylu. Show more
Emeli Sandé explores music with exceptional vocals, from Nina Simone, Maria Callas, Sade and more. Show more
Happy Harmonies with Laufey
Vol 3: Gentle Jazz sounds to ease you into the day
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Laufey celebrates jazz, with tracks from Jacob Collier, Saje, New York Voices and more.
Rossen Milanov conducts cellist Julian Steckel and the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Schumann and Brahms from Ljubljana. John Shea presents. Show more