Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod explores what we know of Purcell’s private life alongside some of the last music he wrote. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Sounds of France
Music for string quartet by Debussy, Poulenc and Laurent Durupt
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Sounds of France: in this week's final concert, Quatuor Van Kuijk play Debussy's String Quartet, an arrangement of three songs by Poulenc and Laurent Durupt's Grids for Greed. Show more
Louise Farrenc's Symphony No 3, concertos by Ravel and Stravinsky from pianist Steven Osborne and violinist Leonidas Kavakos, and trumpet-piano duo Simon Höfele and Frank Dupree. Show more
The Listening Service
Bluebeard's Castle: Enter at Your Peril
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom Service intrepidly explores Bluebeard's Castle, Bartok's one-act symbolist opera, first performed in 1918 with just two characters: Bluebeard and his newest wife Judith. Show more
Sean Rafferty with the cast of upcoming The Chevalier, and composer Elena Langer. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Lionel Bringuier conducts Debussy, Dutilleux and Ravel
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs 20th-century French masterworks with Lionel Bringuier, and pair up with violinist Akiko Suwanai in Dutilleux's mesmeric violin concerto. Show more
Ian McMillan is joined by Paul Farley, Caleb Femi and Penelope Lively to consider poetry, ambivalence and beauty, with the arrival of spring. Show more
Jon Gower recounts how the herring trade has brought Wales great fortune over the years and why he thinks there is still hope for its future despite overfishing and pollution. Show more
Verity Sharp shares the results of the latest long-distance Late Junction collaboration session between enigmatic English producer Shackleton and Kenyan rapper MC Yallah. Show more
Devonté Hynes explores the music that’s helped shape him as an artist and composer, with a selection that includes Bach, Arthur Russell and Alice Coltrane. Show more
Tokio celebrates World Piano Day with his favourite piano pieces from global cinema. Featuring tracks from Interstellar, Parasite and Up. Show more
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in a programme of Kodaly, Shostakovich and Nielsen. John Shea presents Show more