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 Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel. Presented by Georgia Mann. Show more

Donald Macleod continues his focus on French composers, inspired by July's Tour de France cycle race. Today, Rameau's prickly relationships with colleagues and friends. Show more

Alban Gerhardt (cello) and Steven Osborne (piano) perform Beethoven's Cello Sonata in D, Op 102 No 2 and Shostakovich's Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40, at LSO St Luke's, London. Show more

Ian Skelly rounds up his week of afternoon performances with Britten, Bach, Handel and Rachmaninov, and John Storgards conducting Shostakovich's Symphony No 14. Show more

Tom Service explores the music of Franz Liszt. Was he all pianistic fireworks and no soul? Pianist Mariam Batsashvili explains, at the piano, why Liszt is so special. Show more

Sean Rafferty with the Solus Trumpet Ensemble and Ingrid Fliter Show more

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

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Ravel, a Murail concerto premiere with pianist François-Frédéric Guy, Vaughan Williams, and a new discovery by Franck. Show more

An extended interview with poet Michael Longley at his home in Belfast. Show more

Where have all the aunts gone? asks Rachel Cooke. She remembers her own maiden aunts, Hilda and Vera, and the many aunts that populate literature. Show more

Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a mixtape from Egyptian multi-instrumentalist, arranger and composer Nancy Mounir. Show more

Drift away with a weekly dose of the world’s most soothing piano music, including ethereal sounds from Little Dragon, Laura Mvula, Nils Frahm and more.

Laufey sequences a dreamy playlist to soothe you into the day. With music from The Cranberries, Lizzy McAlpine and Imogen Heap.

The Orchestra della Svizzera italiana and conductor Markus Poschner perform overtures by Rossini alongside Sibelius's Finlandia and Britten's Double Concerto for violin and viola. Show more