Breakfast
Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 7 months
Join Elizabeth Alker to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.
Tom Service chats to conductor Marin Alsop, delves into the week's biggest music stories and plays the best classical music for your Saturday morning Show more
Earlier... with Jools Holland
Classical, jazz and blues from Jools and guests
59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 7 months
Jools picks Chopin and Florence Price, plus Louis Armstrong's favourite classical music with his guest Ricky Riccardi. Show more
Record Review
Brahms' 3rd Symphony in Building a Library with Nigel Simeone and Andrew McGregor
1 hour, 59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 7 months
In Building a Library Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite version of Brahms' 3rd Symphony; plus horn-player Sarah Willis with an exciting pile of new releases Show more
Sound of Cinema
Real Lives and the musical world of cinema biopics
20 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
With the release of the biopic about Amy Winehouse, Back to Black, Matthew Sweet explores the stories of lives that have been told on the silver screen.
This Classical Life
Jess Gillam with... Jennifer Pike
59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 7 months
Jess Gillam shares music with violinist Jennifer Pike, with tracks from Haydn to Bach via Quincy Jones, Debussy, Bill Evans, Tchaikovsky and Nina Simone. Show more
Opera on 3
Rachmaninov's Aleko and Francesca da Rimini
3 hours, 29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 7 months
A double bill of rarely heard Rachmaninov operas from the Prinzregententheater in Munich, starring Kristina Mkhitaryan, Andrei Danilov and Kostas Smoriginas. Show more
Kathryn Tickell with highlights from Quebecois band Genticorum's recent performance at Celtic Connections in Glasgow, plus a round-up of the latest new releases.
New Music Show
Conquest of the Useless by David Fennessy
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for 7 months
David Fennessy's Conquest of the Useless: inspired by Werner Herzog’s film Fitzcarraldo about an opera-crazed obsessive driven to construct an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. Show more
Through the Night
Strauss, Mahler and Tchaikovsky from Bucharest
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for 7 months
Romanian Radio National Orchestra and conductor Sascha Goetzel are joined by baritone Liviu Holender in Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. John Shea presents. Show more
