Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.
Record Review
Smetana's The Bartered Bride in Building a Library with Nigel Simeone and Andrew McGregor
2 hours, 47 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite recording of Smetana's The Bartered Bride and conductor Robert Hollingworth shares some remarkable new releases Show more
Tom Service talks to conductor and composer Iván Fischer ahead of his UK appearances with the Budapest Festival Orchestra this summer. Plus the centenary of György Ligeti. Show more
This Classical Life
Jess Gillam with... Roberts Balanas
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Jess Gillam and Latvian violinist Roberts Balanas share the music they love, including Anna Clyne, Kamasi Washington, and Jessye Norman singing Poulenc. Show more
Inside Music
Double bass player Malachy Robinson cooks up a musical storm
1 hour, 56 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Malachy Robinson reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, including an unusual recording of a well-known symphony and a beautiful setting of a tragic text. Show more
Matthew Sweet talks to iconic film director David Lynch about his long term collaboration with composer Angelo Badalamenti, who died in 2022. Show more
Kathryn Tickell and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita share the music that has inspired and influenced them. Show more
Live music from dynamic saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin and Surya Botofasina's inspirations. Show more
Ryan Speedo Green plays boxer Emile Griffith in Terence Blanchard's tragedy Champion at the New York Met, the second opera by the Grammy Award-winning composer to be staged there. Show more
Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance including live recordings from the JACK Quartet recorded at the Wigmore Hall in London last month. Show more
Corey Mwamba picks improvised music and free jazz that escapes categorisation, from oddball songs to a fiery session from multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers's archives. Show more
Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Osmo Vänskä in Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more