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Today 00:30 - 06:30

Cellist Julia Hagen joins the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada in Dvorák's Cello Concerto. John Shea presents.

Today 06:30 - 09:00

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Today 12:00 - 13:30

Michael Berkeley's guest is the best-selling author of Longitude, writer Dava Sobel.

Today 13:30 - 15:00

Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture in the sound worlds of Niels Gade, Thea Musgrave, Aidan O'Rourke, Jean Sibelius, and Brighde Chaimbeul.

Today 15:00 - 16:00

Live from Manchester Cathedral, with music by Jonathan Dove and Leighton.

Today 16:00 - 17:00

Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.

Today 17:00 - 18:00

Mark Seow explores the links between Bach's music and the subject of farming...not only of the soil but also of the heart and of the soul.

Today 18:00 - 19:15

Clare Perkins and Jonathan Keeble with readings on the theme of returning from Shakespeare, Milton and Carol Ann Duffy, with music by Rachmaninov, Haydn, The Beatles and Elvis.

Today 19:15 - 20:00

...a Lost Ugandan Opera. Mugabi Turya traces the forgotten legacy of pioneering Ugandan composer and scholar Solomon Mbabi Katana, and his place in the wider story of opera in postcolonial Africa.

Today 20:00 - 21:30

...part 2. Ncuti Gatwa, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Malachi Kirby star in Gatsby in Harlem. F Scott Fizgerald's The Great Gatsby reimagined by Roy Williams and set in the 1920s Harlem Renaissance.

Today 21:30 - 22:00

Santiago Sanchez sings a tender song by Joaquin Rodrigo, Emma Rawicz plays her own moving Lament, and pianist Mariam Batsashvili reveals new colours in Cesar Franck.

Today 22:00 - 23:00

8/12. Ólafur Arnalds looks to the skies with a celestial soundtrack for stargazing. Plus the LA composer and vocalist Julianna Barwick transports us to her safe haven.

Today 23:00 - 23:30

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.

Today 23:30 - 00:30

Elizabeth Alker selects music by an exciting roster of genre-defying artists. Featuring tracks from Ida Dueland and Brian Coney plus a Daniel Brandt remix.

Tomorrow 00:30 - 06:30

The RAI National Symphony Orchestra plays Tchaikovsky's romantic overture after Romeo and Juliet and Stravinsky's witty and light-hearted ballet suite inspired by a game of cards.

Tomorrow 06:30 - 09:30

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 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 - 16:00

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales are in the spotlight across this week, but the programme opens with live music from Wigmore Hall with the Juilliard Quartet playing Beethoven.

Tomorrow 16:00 - 17:00

1/5. Donald Macleod explores the early influences Gustav Holst had upon his daughter Imogen.

Tomorrow 17:00 - 19:00

Katie Derham introduces live music from the Pavel Haas Quartet ahead of their UK concerts in January.

Tomorrow 19:00 - 19:30

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites from renowned composers such as Gipps, Rachmaninov and Bruckner.

Tomorrow 19:30 - 21:45

Sir Simon Rattle celebrates his 70th birthday with the LSO in a concert of British music: Vaughan Williams, Tippett and the world première of Mark-Anthony Turnage's guitar concerto.

Tomorrow 21:45 - 22:00

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby explores how Northumbrian rock art reveals our enduring relationship and fascination with stone.

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

Journalist, author, broadcaster and friend of the show Kevin Le Gendre is back to sit in for Soweto all this week on 'Round Midnight.

Tuesday 00:30 - 06:30

Cellist Branimir Pusticki joins the Croatian RT Symphony Orchestra and conductor Pavle Zajcev in Schumann's Cello Concerto and the orchestra plays Brahms's 2nd Symphony.

Tuesday 06:30 - 09:30

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Tuesday 09:30 - 13:00

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Tuesday 13:00 - 16:00

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Sibelius and Dvorak, and violinist Rachel Podger and recorder player Lucie Horsch headline a celebration of the Baroque from LSO St Luke's.

Tuesday 16:00 - 17:00

2/5. Imogen Holst returns to the UK and tries to find the right job. Presented by Donald Macleod.

Tuesday 17:00 - 19:00

Katie Derham is joined by pianist Mariam Batiashvilli ahead of her concert at London's Wigmore Hall.

Tuesday 19:00 - 19:30

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites by Mozart, Dowland and Richard Rodgers/Wallen alongside music by Purcell, Poulenc, Rebelo and Eric Whitacre.

Tuesday 19:30 - 21:45

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Antony Hermus perform Janácek's Cunning Little Vixen, Stravinsky's Petrushka, and Laura van der Heijden joins for Martinu's Cello Concerto.

Tuesday 21:45 - 22:00

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby explores our relationship with wood as she traces the story of Seahenge, a wooden Bronze Age funerary monument discovered on the beach in North Norfolk.

Tuesday 22:00 - 23:30

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

Tuesday 23:30 - 00:30

Kevin Le Gendre, sitting in all week for Soweto Kinch, presents 'Round Midnight - a celebration of jazz from across the spectrum, with a particular focus on new UK music.

Wednesday 00:30 - 06:30

Leif Ove Andsnes & friends perform chamber music by Mozart at the 2022 BBC Proms. Presented by John Shea.

Wednesday 06:30 - 09:30

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Wednesday 09:30 - 13:00

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Wednesday 13:00 - 15:00

The National Orchestra of Wales perform music from Wales and a new work from Jessie Montgomery, and Forma Antiqva present music by Telemann from LSO St Luke's. With Tom McKinney.

Wednesday 15:00 - 16:00

From St Lawrence Church, York, with the Ebor Singers, with music by Mundy, Coleridge-Taylor, Bull and Bach.

Wednesday 16:00 - 17:00

3/5. Donald Macleod explores Imogen Holst's time as a teacher at Dartington and then in India.

Wednesday 17:00 - 19:00

Pianist Warren Mailley-Smith performs live in the In Tune Studio to promote his Chopin and Champaign by Candlelight concert series at 1901 Arts Club.

Wednesday 19:00 - 19:30

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

Wednesday 19:30 - 21:45

Mariam Batsashvili plays a recital of piano music including Haydn's Piano Sonata No. 50 in D, Beethoven's Rage over a lost penny, as well as music by Brahms, Schubert, and Liszt.

Wednesday 21:45 - 22:00

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby delights in the tactile quality of clay, exploring how the processes of making pottery can reveal different understandings of archaeological ceramics.

Wednesday 22:00 - 23:30

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

Wednesday 23:30 - 00:30

Kevin Le Gendre continues his week sitting in for Soweto Kinch on 'Round Midnight.

Thursday 00:30 - 06:30

The Modigliani Quartet performs Schubert's 7th String Quartet and Beethoven's first Razumovsky quartet. They're joined by Sharon Kam for Brahms's Clarinet Quintet.

Thursday 06:30 - 09:30

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 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

Tom McKinney introduces exclusive recordings from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including Bruckner and a new piece by Elena Kats-Chernin. Plus more Ornaments of the Baroque.

Thursday 16:00 - 17:00

4/5. Donald Macleod delves into the period when Imogen Holst moved to Aldeburgh to work with Britten.

Thursday 17:00 - 19:00

Live music from US-based a cappella ensemble, Lyyra, ahead of their UK debut at Kings Place.

Thursday 19:00 - 19:30

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including works by Louis Couperin, Cimarosa, Moeran, Philip Glass, Schubert, Villa-Lobos, Mozart and JS Bach.

Thursday 19:30 - 21:45

Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No 24, plus Britten's Suite on English Folk Tunes and Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 4.

Thursday 21:45 - 22:00

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby visits Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall, where leather artefacts have been preserved at the Roman fort for nearly 2000 years.

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

A premiere of a piece from the UK pianist's forthcoming album. Kevin Le Gendre continues his week sitting in for Soweto Kinch on 'Round Midnight.

Friday 00:30 - 06:30

Angela Hewitt plays Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, in a programme including Dutilleux's Métaboles and Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole.

Friday 06:30 - 09:30

Hannah French presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Friday 09:30 - 13:00

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Friday 13:00 - 16:00

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales perofrm Elgar's Enigma Variations alongside a symphony by Peteris Vasks, and Tom McKinney introduces music by Bach and his contemporaries.

Friday 16:00 - 17:00

5/5. Donald Macleod delves into Holst's final years when she composed her significant String Quintet.

Friday 17:00 - 19:00

Violinist Nigel Kennedy performs live ahead of his concert 'Concert for Justice, Peace, Acceptance and Forgiveness' at the Barbican.

Friday 19:00 - 19:30

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

Friday 19:30 - 21:45

Recorded on New Year's Day in Shenzhen. The BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing with music by Vaughan Williams, Walton, Malcolm Arnold and Maxwell Davies.

Friday 21:45 - 22:00

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby tells the enchanting story of steel in Sheffield, visiting a cutler and a blacksmith to better understand complex metallurgical crafts.

Friday 22:00 - 23:30

Verity Sharp embarks on another adventure into the furthest reaches of sound, with bird calls made from a tiny portative organ and the life of a cell imagined sonically.

Friday 23:30 - 00:30

Journalist, author and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre sits in for Soweto Kinch on 'Round Midnight, Radio 3's nightly look at jazz from all styles and eras.

Saturday 00:30 - 06:30

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Oslo Philharmonic in Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony and Berlioz's 'Harold en Italie'. John Shea presents.

Saturday 06:30 - 09:00

Join Emma Clarke to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.

Saturday 09:00 - 12:00

Tom Service has the perfect classical soundtrack to start your weekend! Organist James McVinnie and composer Anna Clyne pop in to talk about their latest projects.

Saturday 12:00 - 13:00

Jools Holland shares his love and knowledge of classical music.

Saturday 13:00 - 14:00

...Stave. Writer and satirist Chris Addison explores how composers have used music to engage with some of the biggest ideas throughout time - in the world of philosophy.

Saturday 14:00 - 16:00

David Owen Norris chooses his favourite version of Brahms' Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 in Building a Library.

Saturday 16:00 - 17:00

Defying the convention of massive orchestral scores, Matthew Sweet looks at the films that embrace the intimacy of chamber music for their soundtracks.

Saturday 17:00 - 18:00

Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with conductor and broadcaster Ben Gernon. Their choices include music by Mozart, Lili Boulanger and Stevie Wonder.

Saturday 18:00 - 21:30

Puccini's Tosca from the Metropolitan Opera, New York with Lise Davidsen as Tosca and Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi.

Saturday 21:30 - 22:30

As the new Lunar Year approaches, Beijing producer Howie Lee shares three tracks of traditional and contemporary Chinese folk music. Plus the best in new roots-based music.

Saturday 22:30 - 00:30

Tom Service with music by Wadada Leo Smith and Franesca Verunelli in performances by Ligeti Quartet and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Sunday 00:30 - 06:30

Reinhold Friedrich leads the Baroque Orchestra of the Thüringen Philharmonie from his trumpet in a programme of radiant Baroque concertos. Penny Gore presents.

Sunday 06:30 - 09:00

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Sunday 09:00 - 12:00

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you're relaxing with a cup of tea or enjoying the morning calm.

Sunday 12:00 - 13:30

Michael Berkeley's guest is chef Raymond Blanc.

Sunday 13:30 - 15:00

Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps a musical landscape around Vivaldi's violin concerto Spring, listening in deeply to find sonic connections across time and space.

Sunday 15:00 - 16:00

From St Lawrence Church, York, with the Ebor Singers, with music by Mundy, Coleridge-Taylor, Bull and Bach.

Sunday 16:00 - 17:00

Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you including music from Sarah Vaughan, Stanley Jordan, Johnny Hodges & Tessa Souter. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk.

Sunday 17:00 - 18:00

Hannah French with highlights of a concert given at Berlin Cathedral in December by the RIAS Chamber Choir & Capella de la Torre, including music by Gabrieli, Benevoli & Striggio.

Sunday 18:00 - 19:15

Music by Schumann, Beethoven, Górecki & Ilse Weber, writing by Anne Michaels, Adam Zych & Primo Levi, in a broadcast to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Sunday 19:15 - 19:45

Machines in search of autonomy, from a miraculous 16th century mechanical 'Monk', a breathing clockwork Mozartian keyboardist, to the métamatics of Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Sunday 19:45 - 20:00

...Thinkers. Historian Daniel Lee visits the Swedish Holocaust Museum in Stockholm, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Sunday 20:00 - 21:30

Ibsen's classic stage play in a version by Ben Power. Told in two parts, it is the story of Emperor Julian and his failed attempt to abolish Christianity in the Roman Empire.

Sunday 21:30 - 22:00

Konstantin Krimmel sings Schubert's Die Bürgschaft, a dramatic ballad set in ancient Antiquity and Giorgi Gigashvili plays one of Brahms's tender Intermezzi.

Sunday 22:00 - 23:00

9/12. Ólafur Arnalds shares relaxing music to help you rest and recover from burnout. Plus the Icelandic singer Laufey shares her musical safe haven.

Sunday 23:00 - 23:30

Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.

Sunday 23:30 - 00:30

Elizabeth Alker serves up a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists, including Masayoshi Fujita, Seefeel and L'Rain.