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Today 06:30 - 09:30

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Today 09:30 - 13:00

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Today 13:00 - 16:00

Mark Forrest introduces an afternoon of recordings from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including pianist Alim Beisembayev, performing the Tchaikovsky 1st Piano Concerto.

Today 16:00 - 17:00

2/5. Michael finds a wife, loses a patron and finds work alongside one of the most famous families in classical music. Will the Mozart clan prove allies or rivals? With Donald Macleod.

Today 17:00 - 19:00

Mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, pianist Anna Tilbrook and tenor Nicholas Phan join Petroc Trelawny in studio for a live performance. Composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad is also in the studio.

Today 19:00 - 19:30

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

Today 19:30 - 21:45

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft perform two works by Dmitri Shostakovich - his 7th Symphony, 'Leningrad', and the 1st Violin Concerto with Clara-Jumi Kang.

Today 21:45 - 22:00

Poet Jay Hulme explores a 13th-century hermit's cave, reflecting on spirituality, solitude, and the traces of devotion that linger long after a place is abandoned.

Today 22:00 - 23:30

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

Today 23:30 - 00:30

Drummer and percussionist Sarathy Korwar is back with his second 4/4 choice of the week.

Tomorrow 00:30 - 06:30

The Swedish RSO performs Mazzoli's Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres). Jonathan Biss joins the ensemble for Beethoven's 2nd piano concerto and The Blind Banister by Timo Andres.

Tomorrow 06:30 - 09:30

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Tomorrow 09:30 - 13:00

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Tomorrow 13:00 - 15:00

Mark Forrest introduces specially recorded music including Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and chamber highlights from Lammermuir.

Tomorrow 15:00 - 16:00

From the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, with the Trinity Laban Chapel Choir, with music for the season of Remembrance.

Tomorrow 16:00 - 17:00

3/5. A new Prince-Archbishop is enthroned in Salzburg and, as the court musicians jockey for position, Haydn's friendly battles with the Mozart family turn bitter. With Donald Macleod.

Tomorrow 17:00 - 19:00

Pianist Ethan Loch joins Katie Derham in studio for a live performance. Katie also talks to tenor Freddie De Tommaso, who connects to 80A from the MET in New York.

Tomorrow 19:00 - 19:30

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music by Bach, Gjeilo and Dvorak.

Tomorrow 19:30 - 21:45

Martin Handley presents the American pianist Richard Goode performing two of Beethoven's later piano sonatas with the 6 Bagatelles, Op.126. Plus Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze.

Tomorrow 21:45 - 22:00

Poet Sean Lìonadh returns to the Govan Docks on the River Clyde, uncovering how the site's decay and renewal reveal changing identities in his community and himself.

Tomorrow 22:00 - 23:30

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

Tomorrow 23:30 - 00:30

Sarathy Korwar returns to select another record from his collection for 4/4, and tonight he chooses an album by a London artist who he has collaborated with and admires.

Thursday 00:30 - 06:30

Renaud Capuçon and Stefan Dohr perform Smyth's work with the German Symphony Orchestra under Pablo Heras-Casado. The concerto is followed by Bruckner symphony no 5.

Thursday 06:30 - 09:30

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Thursday 09:30 - 13:00

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Thursday 13:00 - 16:00

Mark Forrest introduces an afternoon of specially made recordings from Scotland including chamber music highlights from the recent Lammermuir Festival.

Thursday 16:00 - 17:00

4/5. Michael Haydn hadn't seen his famous brother, Joseph, in person, for several decades. Now in their sixties, the siblings finally arrange to meet. With Donald Macleod.

Thursday 17:00 - 19:00

Katie Derham is joined by The Choir of Royal Holloway and Rupert Gough for a live performance, Katie also chats to Dr Hannah French about her new book on Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Thursday 19:00 - 19:30

Half an hour of back to back calming classical music including works by Chopin, Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, and William Grant Still.

Thursday 19:30 - 21:45

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Arvo Volmer perform Nielsen's 4th Symphony, alongside Vaughan Williams, a UK Premiere by Ester Mägi, and Helen Grime's Trumpet Concerto.

Thursday 21:45 - 22:00

Writer Zakiya McKenzie travels to Jersey's Les Landes plateau, linking its witch-trial past with her Caribbean heritage to explore how stories move across seas and centuries.

Thursday 22:00 - 23:30

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

Thursday 23:30 - 00:30

All this week, expansive drummer and percussionist Sarathy Korwar has been Soweto's 4/4 guest.

Friday 00:30 - 06:30

The Helsinki Chamber Choir, the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and conductor Nils Schweckendiek perform music on the theme of hope including four premieres and music by Bach and Handel.

Friday 06:30 - 09:30

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Friday 09:30 - 13:00

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Friday 13:00 - 16:00

Mark Forrest introduces specially made recordings from Scotland, including a performance of Verdi's dramatic Requiem and chamber music highlights from the Lammermuir Festival.

Friday 16:00 - 17:00

5/5. Haydn is presented with an exciting opportunity to take up a prestigious new role, in a new city. He immediately agrees but is quickly beset by doubts. With Donald Macleod.

Friday 17:00 - 19:00

Petroc Trelawny is joined by the Amatis Piano Trio for a live performance. Petroc also talks to saxophonist Soweto Kinch and to Sir Bryn Terfel.

Friday 19:00 - 19:30

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

Friday 19:30 - 21:45

Anna-Maria Helsing conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in music showcasing classical music used in TV and then music specially composed. From the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall.

Friday 21:45 - 22:00

Poet Jean Sprackland reflects on an abandoned Somerset farmhouse, Foxes' Castle, where stories of love and grief intertwine with the renewal of the natural world.

Friday 22:00 - 23:30

Verity Sharp shares a wide-ranging and free-flowing mix of music curated by idiosyncratic Japanese artist and composer, Nobukazu Takemura.

Friday 23:30 - 00:30

This Friday night, Soweto presents concert highlights from gifted Glasgow based saxophonist Matt Carmichael and Grammy-award winning German public broadcast ensemble, the WDR Big Band.

Saturday 00:30 - 06:30

Mariam Batsashvili's recital showcases the breadth of her artistic expression from haunting Bach and Chopin to Haydn's joyful Sonata in D and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies.

Saturday 06:30 - 09:00

Hannah French presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Saturday 09:00 - 12:00

Tom Service chats to mandolinist Chris Thile and composer Mark Anthony Turnage. Plus guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend!

Saturday 12:00 - 13:00

Jools is joined by singer songwriter Billy Bragg, with music ranging from Vaughan Williams to Bennie Moten.

Saturday 13:00 - 14:00

Piano technician Ulrich Gerhartz talks pianos with some of the greatest pianists of our age.

Saturday 14:00 - 16:00

Kate Kennedy joins Andrew McGregor to discuss her selection of the best new releases, and Building a Library on Gershwin's symphonic poem 'An American in Paris' with Ben Gernon.

Saturday 16:00 - 17:00

Edith Bowman curates your weekly selection of standout scores and soundtracks, talks to Oppenheimer composer Ludwig Göransson, and discovers Emma Thompson's Pick of the Flicks.

Saturday 17:00 - 18:00

Jess Gillam and composer Rushil Ranjan share their favourite music.

Saturday 18:00 - 21:30

Mozart's The Magic Flute from the Royal Opera, starring Lucy Crowe as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino and Huw Montague Rendall as the lovable bird catcher Papageno.

Saturday 21:30 - 22:30

Percussion maestro and composer Sarathy Korwar selects his favourite roots-based music centered around percussion and rhythm, picking from different traditions.

Saturday 22:30 - 00:30

Tom Service finds out what composer Leo Chadburn is listening to at the moment, and more highlights from the Donaueschingen Music Days 2025, including Georges Aperghis' Tell Tales.

Sunday 00:30 - 06:30

Berlin Cathedral resonates with the sound of forty voices in Alessandro Striggio's motet Ecce beata lucem, as well as works by Gabrieli, Caccini and Benevoli.

Sunday 06:30 - 09:00

Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Sunday 09:00 - 12:00

Join Sarah Walker for a Sunday mix full of colour and character - bright openings, graceful dances, and music to set your imagination free.

Sunday 12:00 - 13:30

Michael Berkeley's guest is the actor and writer Hugh Bonneville.

Sunday 13:30 - 15:00

Sara Mohr-Pietsch embarks on a musical journey towards the second movement of Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major - one of the composer's final works before he died.

Sunday 15:00 - 16:00

From the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, with the Trinity Laban Chapel Choir, with music for the season of Remembrance.

Sunday 16:00 - 17:00

Join our community of jazz lovers. Alyn Shipton is waiting for your requests: email jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.

Sunday 17:00 - 18:00

A concert from The Brook Street Band at October's Love:Handel Festival in Norwich, including the two winning pieces from the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers Award.

Sunday 18:00 - 19:15

Nan Shepherd's mountain climbing, Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road, Tagore's Journey Home feature alongside Kraftwerk and the bicycle parade from Jean Coulthard's ballet score.

Sunday 19:15 - 20:00

In the company of other poets, Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.

Sunday 20:00 - 21:00

A thorough look at the week's classical music releases, plus news and the Radio 3 Disc of the Week recommendation.

Sunday 21:00 - 22:00

New light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. Gillian Moore explores the role of the two Pierres - Schaeffer and Henry - in the development of electronic music.

Sunday 22:00 - 23:30

Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

Sunday 23:30 - 00:30

Elizabeth Alker welcomes a live audience to The Trades Club in Hebden Bridge for performances from three of Unclassified's favourite artists.

Monday 00:30 - 06:30

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor designate Maxim Emelyanychev plays Mozart's bright and jovial 23rd piano concerto, plus Scheherezade.

Monday 06:30 - 09:30

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Monday 09:30 - 13:00

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Monday 13:00 - 16:00

Baritone James Newby & pianist Joseph Middleton live from Wigmore Hall, plus highlights from this summer's Glenarm Festival of Voice in Northern Ireland and early music from London.

Monday 16:00 - 17:00

1/5. Donald Macleod journeys into the early life of Elfrida Andrée, including her belief from childhood in the equality between men and women.

Monday 17:00 - 19:00

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Monday 19:00 - 19:30

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

Monday 19:30 - 21:45

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra joins forces with the Danish National Concert Choir, BBC Singers and the Copenhagen Boy's Choir to perform Mahler's great Symphony No. 8.

Monday 21:45 - 22:00

Ruth Montgomery is a profoundly deaf flautist. Describing the hurdles she faced to become a music educator for deaf children, she muses on the importance of music to all our lives.

Monday 22:00 - 23:30

Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

Monday 23:30 - 00:30

Soweto's guest this week is saxophonist, drummer, multi-instrumentalist and child of saxophone colossus Pharoah Sanders, Tomoki Sanders.

Tuesday 00:30 - 06:30

Lars Ulrik Mortensen directs Concerto Copenhagen from the harpsichord in music by Fischer, Vivaldi, Avison and Respighi. Jonathan Swain presents.

Tuesday 06:30 - 09:30

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Tuesday 09:30 - 13:00

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Tuesday 13:00 - 16:00

Mezzo Carolyn Dobbin & tenor Santiago Sanchez from this summer's Glenarm Festival of Voice, plus early music from London and Dvorak's 8th Symphony from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Tuesday 16:00 - 17:00

2/5. Andrée battles to become the first female cathedral organist in Europe. Presented by Donald Macleod.

Tuesday 17:00 - 19:00

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Tuesday 19:00 - 19:30

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

Tuesday 19:30 - 21:45

Martin Handley presents the Chiaroscuro Quartet at Wigmore Hall playing two of Haydn's Opus 20 string quartets and, with Cédric Tiberghien, Schumann's Piano Quintet, Op.44.

Tuesday 21:45 - 22:00

Horn player Nigel Braithwaite takes a sideways look at how music has helped him through progressive deafness and traumatic brain injury.

Tuesday 22:00 - 23:30

Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

Tuesday 23:30 - 00:30

Tomoki Sanders has a second 4/4 selection to share, and tonight they choose music by an innovative American jazz pianist and organist.