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Today 00:30 - 06:30

A BBC Proms performance from 2024 that includes Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with Alice Coote.

Today 06:30 - 09:30

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

Today 13:00 - 15:00

Linton Stephens showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Dvorák's Violin Concerto in A minor played by Isabelle Faust at the BBC Proms.

Today 15:00 - 16:00

From St Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh, during the Charles Wood Summer School, with music by Bairstow, Blair, Rutter and Dupré.

Today 16:00 - 17:00

3/5. Donald Macleod is joined by Wynton Marsalis, as he discovers how the poetry of Langston Hughes inspired the music of the Harlem Renaissance.

Today 17:00 - 19:30

Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason performs live.

Today 19:30 - 20:00

A 30-minute soundscape of classical music from Mendelssohn's iconic Italian symphony, Gabriel Faure's violin sonata and Alexandre Desplat's score to The Shape of Water.

Today 20:00 - 22:00

Live at the BBC Proms: St. Vincent joins Jules Buckley and his orchestra in brand-new symphonic arrangements from her eclectic back-catalogue.

Today 22:00 - 23:30

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

Today 23:30 - 00:30

One from pioneering Chicago duo Anteloper, featuring the late Jaimie Branch and Jason Nazary.

Tomorrow 00:30 - 06:30

Radovan Vlatkovic plays Strauss's first Horn Concerto with the Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra. They also play Smetana's Vltava and Blagoje Bersa's Sunny Fields.

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 - 16:00

Linton Stephens showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ' played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Tomorrow 16:00 - 17:00

4/5. Duke Ellington was a musician who defined the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz composer and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis tells Donald Macleod how Ellington's music inspires him.

Tomorrow 17:00 - 19:00

Petroc Trelawny welcomes conductor Vasily Petrenko and pianist Dominic Degavino.

Tomorrow 19:00 - 19:30

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

Tomorrow 19:30 - 22:00

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Edwin Outwater in film music by Herrmann, Schifrin and Quincy Jones. Sterling Elliot plays Korngold's Cello Concerto.

Tomorrow 22:00 - 23:30

An adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

Tomorrow 23:30 - 00:30

One from the all-star New Zealand ensemble The Circling Sun's new expansive album.

Friday 00:30 - 06:30

The forest is a common motif in the work of Romantics, and forms the inspiration for this song recital from Madrid.

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

Linton Stephens showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor played by Khatia Buniatishvili at the BBC Proms.

Friday 16:00 - 17:00

5/5. Louis Armstrong gets his big break as the Harlem Renaissance comes to an end.

Friday 17:00 - 19:00

Petroc Trelawny chats to Angélique Kidjo and introduces live music from the Olivia Cuttill quintet.

Friday 19:00 - 19:30

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music by your favourite composers such as Respighi, Rachmaninov, and Price.

Friday 19:30 - 22:00

Live at the BBC Proms: Jonathon Heyward conducts Chineke! Orchestra in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Valerie Coleman and James Lee III.

Friday 22:00 - 23:30

Join Jennifer Lucy Allan for highlights from the Late Junction Prom at the Bristol Beacon, with a live performance from artist Wojciech Rusin and alongside Bristol's Jo Hellier.

Friday 23:30 - 00:30

Soweto is joined by special guest, pioneering British vocalist and lyricist Norma Winstone.

Saturday 00:30 - 06:30

Renaud Capuçon conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra with Martha Argerich as the soloist in Beethoven's second piano concerto, paired with Brahms's Serenade no 2.

Saturday 06:30 - 09:00

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

Saturday 09:00 - 12:00

Tom welcomes star soprano Golda Schutz ahead of her performance at the BBC Proms.

Saturday 12:00 - 13:00

Featuring an interview with the late artist Brian Clarke, with music by Berlioz, Stravinsky and Handel.

Saturday 13:00 - 14:00

Writer and satirist Chris Addison explores how composers have handled religion over the years, and how they have used music to challenge its power and authority. 4/6.

Saturday 14:00 - 16:00

Hannah French with some of the week's best new classical releases, and Laura Tunbridge picks five indispensable recordings by BBC Proms composer Johannes Brahms.

Saturday 16:00 - 17:00

Matthew Sweet is joined by multi-award-winning composer, Anne Dudley, to discuss her latest work for the film Signs of Life - which is released in cinemas on 5 September.

Saturday 17:00 - 18:00

Jess Gillam sits down for a listening party with the Canadian baritone, Gerald Finley. They share music by Mozart, the King's Singers, Stan Getz, Vivaldi and Stacey Kent.

Saturday 18:00 - 19:00

Lopa Kothari interviews folk songwriter Piers Faccini and kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko, with highlights from their live performance at the Musique Métisses Festival.

Saturday 19:00 - 19:30

Featuring music specially recorded by Radio 3 New Generation Artists including the Kleio Quartet and cellist Sterling Elliott.

Saturday 19:30 - 22:30

Live from the BBC Proms: Robin Ticciati and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with soprano Golda Schultz perform songs by Bernstein, Gershwin, Weill and Korngold.

Saturday 22:30 - 00:30

As renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt turns 90, the New Music Show goes on a musical tour of Estonia.

Sunday 00:30 - 06:30

Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra with András Schiff as the soloist in Schumann's Piano Concerto, followed by Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony.

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 - 11:00

Sarah Walker with two hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you're relaxing in the garden, or working through Sunday chores.

Sunday 11:00 - 13:30

Live at the BBC Proms: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko in Respighi's Pines of Rome and Vaughan Williams's 'A London Symphony'.

Sunday 13:30 - 15:00

Sara Mohr-Pietsch plots a musical course to Bizet's Carmen Suite No. 1.

Sunday 15:00 - 17:00

Grammy Award-winner Angélique Kidjo and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra bring the Proms to Bradford, 2025 UK City of Culture.

Sunday 17:00 - 18:00

Hannah French is joined in the Early Music Show studio by musicologists Berta Joncus & Lola Salem to explore the life & music of Jean-Baptiste Lully - favourite of King Louis XIV.

Sunday 18:00 - 19:30

From Bertrand Russell's In Praise of Idleness to Philip Larkin's evocation of work as a toad, via the testimony of Victorian girls collected together by Margaret Llewelyn Davies.

Sunday 19:30 - 22:00

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Grieg's Piano Concerto with soloist Lukas Sternath. Plus Ruth Gipps and Bliss's cantata The Beatitudes.

Sunday 22:00 - 23:30

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

Sunday 23:30 - 00:30

Elizabeth Alker serves up a sublime sequence of ambient and experimental music. Plus British DJ-producer Sherelle shares a more downtempo side to her musical personality.

Monday 00:30 - 06:30

Pianist Alexander Malofeev joins German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, and conductor Elim Chan in Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto plus Prokofiev Symphony No 5. John Shea presents.

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

Linton Stephens introduces a selection of specially made recordings from major summer festivals including Schubert from Schwarzenberg and a Handel masterpiece from the Proms.

Monday 16:00 - 17:00

1/5. Donald Macleod explores the end of Robert Schumann's life as he asks to enter the sanatorium at Endenich, where he would live out his final days.

Monday 17:00 - 19:00

Katie Derham introduces live music from the Vrï Chamber Trio ahead of their performance at the Cowbridge Music Festival.

Monday 19:00 - 19:30

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

Monday 19:30 - 22:00

Live at the BBC Proms: The Vienna Philharmonic perform music from Berg's opera Lulu and Bruckner's Ninth Symphony with conductor Franz Welser-Möst.

Monday 22:00 - 23:30

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

Monday 23:30 - 00:30

Soweto welcomes Portuguese London based singer-songwriter and producer Raquel Martins as his Flowers guest.

Tuesday 00:30 - 06:30

The Modigliani Quartet perform Schubert's Seventh String Quartet together with Beethoven's first Rasumovsky quartet. They are joined by Sharon Kam for Brahms's Clarinet Quintet.

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

Highlights from this year's major summer festivals including Schubert from Schwarzenberg in Austria and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the BBC Proms.

Tuesday 16:00 - 17:00

2/5. Donald Macleod explores the circumstances which led Schumann to move to the city of Dusseldorf.

Tuesday 17:00 - 18:30

Julian Bliss and James Baillieu perform live and Katie Derham is also joined by pianist Clare Hammond.

Tuesday 18:30 - 20:45

Live at the BBC Proms: The Vienna Philharmonic perform Tchaikovsky's 'Pathétique' Symphony and Mozart's 'Prague' Symphony with conductor Franz Welser-Möst.

Tuesday 20:45 - 22:15

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

Tuesday 22:15 - 23:45

Live at the BBC Proms: boundary-breaking mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and his Between Worlds Ensemble and Georgia's male-voice Ensemble Rustavi in music from the Black Sea.

Tuesday 23:45 - 00:30

Singer-songwriter and producer Raquel Martins is back with her second Flowers selection of the week. Tonight, she chooses to spotlight a virtuosic Brazilian artist who she admires.

Wednesday 00:30 - 06:30

The Spanish vocal ensemble Qvinta Essençia showcase the polyphonic musical tradition and poetry that flourished in the Iberian Peninsula of the 16th century.

Wednesday 06:30 - 09:30

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

Wednesday 09:30 - 13:00

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

Wednesday 13:00 - 15:00

Elizabeth Alker introduces a selection of specially made recordings from major summer festivals including Schubert from Germany and Chineke! at the BBC Proms.

Wednesday 15:00 - 16:00

Choral Vespers live from the Church of the London Oratory, with music by Scarlatti, Victoria and Muffat.

Wednesday 16:00 - 17:00

3/5. Donald Macleod explores the whirlwind of activity which followed Schumann's arrival in Dusseldorf.

Wednesday 17:00 - 19:00

Katie Derham introduces live music from The Gesualdo Six.

Wednesday 19:00 - 19:30

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

Wednesday 19:30 - 22:00

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Delyana Lazarova and cellist Anastasia Kobekina perform music by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Lili Boulanger.

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

Raquel Martins has a third bouquet of Flowers to give to an artist that has influenced her, and tonight she chooses a legend of Brazilian percussion and musical exploration.

Thursday 00:30 - 06:30

The Modigliani Quartet, with cellist Clemens Hagen, perform Wolf's Italian Serenade, Beethoven's String Quartet No 3 and Schubert's String Quintet in C major.