Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem. Email your requests to 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

Plague comes to Venice, Monteverdi enters the priesthood, and he returns to opera before a final six month celebrity tour. Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more

A taste of the first week of the Edinburgh Festival with early music collective Jupiter Ensemble & Iestyn Davies plus the Novus String Quartet with works by Handel and Britten. Show more

From the Proms, the BBC Philharmonic perform Walton's Violin Concerto with James Ehnes, Sibelius's First Symphony and the world premiere of Gerald Barry's Kafka's Earplugs. Show more

Tom Service considers musical transcendence. From Faure's sublime harmonies to the hypnotic drumming of shamans, what is it about some music that take us to a higher plane? Show more

Sean Rafferty live from the Edinburgh Festivals 2023. Show more

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.

Live at the BBC Proms: Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, RNCM Chamber Choir and Edvard Grieg Kor in music by György Ligeti and Richard Strauss. Show more

Composer Hannah Catherine Jones explores why everyone tunes to the standard frequency of 440Hz and how it feels to reject this default tuning and embrace other frequencies. Show more

Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's Between the Ears features in miniature, in response to the 5-line poem 'November Night'. Show more

Screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell-Boyce marvels at the enduring freshness of Bach's work. Show more

Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a mixtape from surrealist Michigan-based duo Wolf Eyes, plus a selection of French psych-folk and a track inspired by Armenian Bronze Age monoliths. Show more

Get wrapped up and immerse yourself in the warming sounds of Nina Nesbitt, Joni Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald and more.

Laufey celebrates jazz, with tracks from Jacob Collier, Saje, New York Voices and more.

Liang Zhang conducts the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in works by Saint-Saëns & Chausson, with pianist Yingjia Xue. Presented by John Shea. Show more