Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.
Record Review
Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in Building a Library with Kenneth Hamilton and Andrew McGregor
2 hours, 47 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Kenneth Hamilton chooses his favourite recording of Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor in Building a Library, and pianist Charles Owen shares some remarkable new releases. Show more
Tom Service in conversation with conductor Marin Alsop, who has been described as 'a formidable musician, a powerful communicator' and 'a conductor with a vision'. Show more
This Classical Life
Jess Gillam with... Laura van der Heijden
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Jess Gillam and cellist Laura van der Heijden sit down to listen to the music they love, including works by JS Bach, JC Bach, Philip Glass and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Show more
Inside Music
Baritone Peter Brathwaite with profound and joyful sounds
1 hour, 56 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Baritone Peter Brathwaite opens up a colourful selection of music from the inside - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light. Show more
Matthew Sweet reflects on the idea of movies as vehicles for escape and offers a soundtrack to the world where cinema goers themselves become a part of the magic of the cinema. Show more
Kathryn Tickell with the latest new releases from across the globe and an interview with French producer Guts about his latest project Estrellas. Show more
Concert highlights from American jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and her New Standards project, live at San Francisco's SFJazz Centre. Show more
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Wagner's Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera House. Piotr Beczała sings the title role with Tamara Wilson as Elsa, his doomed lover. Show more
New Music Show
Thanksong, The Double, The Fragment on Machines
1 hour, 29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including The Double by Jennifer Walshe and Wobbly, and Cassandra Miller's Thanksong played by Bozzini Quartet. Show more
Corey Mwamba presents the best in new improvised music, featuring mysterious kinetic machines, haunting crows and reverberating silence. Show more
'One of the most fascinating works out there,' says the Oslo Philharmonic's chief conductor Klaus Mäkelä about Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, which he conducts. With John Shea. Show more