Sunday 15:00 - 16:00
Conductor Sofi Jeannin explores the collective singing experience and its ceremonial role in celebrations and grief, from African Pygmy music to British coronations.
703: BBC Radio 3
Sun Jul 26
Sunday 16:00 - 17:00
Alyn Shipton presents a special edition dedicated to the late South African-born pianist, composer and bandleader Abdullah Ibrahim.
Sunday 17:00 - 18:00
Hannah French presents a concert given by the Spanish ensemble Anacronia earlier this month at the National Centre for Early Music, as part of this year's York Early Music Festival.
Sunday 18:00 - 19:00
Solemn Vespers from Buckfast Abbey on the Feast of St Mary Magdalene, with music by Scheidemann, Guerrero and Martin Baker.
Sunday 19:00 - 21:00
Live at the BBC Proms: The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada, with soloists Lucas & Arthur Jussen perform Poulenc Concerto for two pianos and Adams Harmonium.
Sunday 21:00 - 22:30
South Tyneside-born singer Nadine Shah and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, recorded in concert at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead.
Sunday 22:30 - 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 with another late-night journey through fresh music from today's most exciting genre-defying artists. Including tracks from Erik Klinga, Marcus Gootner and Hekla.
Mon Jul 27
Today 00:30 - 06:30
Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth. Alice Coote lends her voice to Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, after a symphony by Brahms.
Today 06:30 - 09:30
Al Ryan 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
Linton Stephens introduces highlights from the Proms, including music by Respighi plus piano music by Rachmaninoff from the Aldeburgh Festival and cello music from Spain.
Today 16:00 - 17:00
1/5. Donald Macleod journeys through the early years of Alice Mary Smith, with guests Ian Graham-Jones and Leanne Langley.
Today 17:00 - 19:00
Katie Derham talks to conductor Omer Meir Wellber ahead of his BBC Prom, and Oxford Piano Festival artist Rustem Hayroudinoff performs live in the studio.
Today 19:00 - 21:30
Live at the BBC Proms: the London Philharmonic Orchestra & conductor Edward Gardner are joined by soprano Louise Alder in a programme of Tjłgersen, Canteloube & Richard Strauss.
Today 21:30 - 22:00
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
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
Soweto presents highlights from this year's Jazzahead in Bremen, Germany. Tonight, we hear from trombonist Nabou Claerhout and a live track from her set.
Tue Jul 28
Tomorrow 00:30 - 06:30
Ole Edvard Antonsen delivers Trumpet Concertos by Haydn and Tartini. He's accompanied by the Argovia Philharmonic conducted by Rune Bergmann.
Tomorrow 06:30 - 09:30
Al Ryan 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 introduces highlights from this year's Proms including Mahler's 6th Symphony from the BBC Symphony Orchestra plus recordings from the recent 2026 Aldeburgh Festival.
Tomorrow 16:00 - 17:00
2/5. Donald Macleod explores the early years of Smith's marriage to a lawyer, Frederick Meadows White.
Tomorrow 17:00 - 19:00
Katie welcomes Carolin Widmann to In Tune. Phelim McDermott on directing Tao of Glass.
Tomorrow 19:00 - 22:00
Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Sibelius's Symphony No.2, Turnage's Festen Suite, and, with Guy Johnston, Britten's Cello Symphony.
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
Soweto is back with another hour of the best in jazz, and we return to Jazzahead in Bremen with a live highlight and words from Ghanaian trumpeter Peter Somuah.
Wed Jul 29
Wednesday 00:30 - 06:30
The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest plays Mahler's fifth symphony. Ágnes Langer plays Mozart's fourth violin concerto in a contrasting first half of the concert.
Wednesday 06:30 - 09:30
Al Ryan 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
Linton Stephens introduces highlights from the BBC Proms, including Strauss' Death and Transfiguration; plus song from Nicky Spence and Julius Drake at the Aldeburgh Festival.
Wednesday 15:00 - 16:00
Live from Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival, with music by Hurd, Gavin Higgins, Wesley and Bliss.
Wednesday 16:00 - 17:00
3/5. Donald Macleod surveys some of Alice Mary Smith's compositional collaborations, including with the famed clarinettist Henry Lazarus.
Wednesday 17:00 - 19:00
Katie welcomes Tomorrow's Warriors and violinist Alena Baeva to In Tune.
Wednesday 19:00 - 22:00
Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Elgar, Weir and Dean with chief conductor Ryan Wigglesworth, soprano Claire Booth and the BBC Singers.
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
Tonight, Soweto presents more of the best new releases and jazz classics, and welcomes his third Jazzahead guest of the week, Estonian pianist Britta Virves.
Thu Jul 30
Thursday 00:30 - 06:30
Sound and silence, stillness and motion are woven together in the music of Arvo Pärt. The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir celebrate his music from the Royal Albert Hall.
Thursday 06:30 - 09:30
Al Ryan 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
Linton Stephens introduces highlights from the BBC Proms, including Szymanowski's choral masterpiece, his Stabat mater; plus chamber music from the recent Aldeburgh Festival.
Thursday 16:00 - 17:00
4/5. Donald Macleod traces Smith's writing of her Second Symphony for a competition at the Alexandra Palace.
Thursday 17:00 - 19:00
Connor Fogel and tenor Brenden Gunnell on their latest albums.
Thursday 19:00 - 22:00
Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Korngold, Prokofiev and Tabakova with principal guest conductor Delyana Lazarova and violinist Alena Baeva.
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
Soweto is joined by his final Jazzahead guest of the week, Hungarian producer and multi-instrumentalist Àbasé, recorded backstage in Bremen earlier this year.
Fri Jul 31
Friday 00:30 - 06:30
The Amaryllis Quartet has been performing in major concert halls for 20 years. In this birthday concert, chamber music classics by Beethoven and Brahms are performed.
Friday 06:30 - 09:30
Al Ryan 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 introduces highlights from the BBC Proms including Elgar's 1st Symphony from the BBC Scottish Symphony; plus chamber highlights from the recent Aldeburgh Festival.
Friday 16:00 - 17:00
5/5. Donald Macleod dives into Smith's final years and explores her last orchestral works, with guests Ian Graham-Jones and Leanne Langley.
Friday 17:00 - 19:00
Composer Dani Howard on the world premiere of her latest work for the BBC Proms.
Friday 19:00 - 19:30
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.
Friday 19:30 - 22:00
Live at the BBC Proms: Omer Meir Wellber conducts the Bremen orchestra playing Haydn & Robert Schumann, with Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich joining them for Bruch's concerto.
Friday 22:00 - 23:30
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a kaleidoscopic mixtape crafted by cult musician, film-maker and producer, Makoto Kubota. Plus breathy sax workouts and a moment of orchestral silence.
Friday 23:30 - 00:30
Tonight, Soweto welcomes multi-Grammy and Academy Award winner, and friend, Jon Batiste as his Friday Night guest.
Sat Aug 01
Saturday 00:30 - 06:30
Handel's Dixit Dominus, Nisi Dominus and Salve Regina performed by soloists with the Hungarian Radio Chorus and Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Matthias Church, Budapest.
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 talks to pianist Kirill Gerstein about straddling the jazz and classical piano worlds. And we discover the new accessible instrument opening up music to everyone.
Saturday 12:00 - 13:00
Jools is joined by producer, songwriter and musician Fraser T Smith.
Saturday 13:00 - 14:00
1786, Vienna. Two servants take on their master in Mozart's greatest opera.
Saturday 14:00 - 16:00
Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases, joined by Marina Frolova-Walker, who picks her top 5 recordings of music by this week's Proms Composer, Carl Maria von Weber.
Saturday 16:00 - 17:00
Edith Bowman explores a selection of film scores and screen music, joined this week by composer Simon Franglen to dive into the soundtrack from 'Perfume' in Harmonising Hollywood.
Saturday 17:00 - 18:00
Jess Gillam shares favourite music with conductor Vasily Petrenko, including tracks by Shostakovich, Vivaldi, Duke Ellington and Pink Floyd.
Saturday 18:00 - 19:00
Lopa Kothari presents the best in global roots music, and Soweto's indigenous afro-psychedelic funk ambassadors BCUC share three tracks that have shaped their musical world.
Saturday 19:00 - 21:45
Live at the BBC Proms: Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon present a musical and dramatic exploration of Mahler's Symphony No 1, followed by a complete performance from memory.
Saturday 21:45 - 22:30
Ahead of the Proms premiere of her BBC-commissioned Bassoon Concerto, Out of the Darkness, composer Thea Musgrave joins Kate Molleson to reflect on her life and work.
Saturday 22:30 - 00:30
Kate Molleson presents the work of British composer Oliver Leith recorded by GBSR duo at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's Tectonics Festival in Glasgow.
Sun Aug 02
Sunday 00:30 - 06:30
The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice play Salonen, Saint-Saëns, Britten and Debussy.
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 inspired by summer and folk traditions, with Renaissance choral music, new discoveries and a symphonic gem from Vasily Kalinnikov.
Sunday 12:00 - 13:30
Michael Berkeley's guest is the American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, famous for her global hit Tom's Diner.
Sunday 13:30 - 15:00
Sara Mohr-Pietsch plots a musical course to Bizet's Carmen Suite No. 1.
Sunday 15:00 - 16:00
Conductor Sofi Jeannin explores the fascination for composers of children's voices in music as they evolve from expressing innocence and good to a broader palette.
Sunday 16:00 - 17:00
Alyn Shipton features music from saxophonists Binker Golding and Sonny Rollins, and we remember the late clarinettist Chris Walker.
Sunday 17:00 - 18:00
Hannah French presents a concert given by the young French vocal ensemble Contre le Temps at the National Centre for Early Music as part of the 2026 York Early Music Festival.
Sunday 18:00 - 19:00
Live from Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival, with music by Hurd, Gavin Higgins, Wesley and Bliss.
Sunday 19:00 - 19:30
Haydn's 'Frog' Quartet from the Kleio Quartet and Alec Templeton's Pocket Sonata from virtuoso clarinettist Oleg Shebeta-Dragan.
Sunday 19:30 - 22:00
Live at the BBC Proms: the BBCSO conducted by Sakari Oramo in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos, plus Scriabin's Symphony No.2 and Dani Howards's Signal.
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 picks new releases from the world of ambient music. And celebrated writer Helen Mort shares a piece of music that transports her elsewhere.
Mon Aug 03
Monday 00:30 - 06:30
Brahms's Fourth Symphony is balanced by Beethoven's Violin Concerto - featuring soloist Tobias Feldmann - plus Sarah Gibson's warp & weft.
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
Mark Forrest introduces highlights from the Proms including music by Sibelius plus chamber performances from this years Ryedale Festival and Baroque music from Fribourg.
Monday 16:00 - 17:00
1/1. Kate Molleson tells Mozart's story through five of the relationships that shaped the composer and his music - from his friends and family to a mentor and a supposed rival.
Monday 17:00 - 19:00
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
Monday 19:00 - 22:00
Live at the BBC Proms: the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conductor Thomas Słndergård are joined by pianist Kirill Gerstein in Rachmaninov's 'Paganini' Variations.
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
Saxophonist Soweto Kinch picks jazz from all eras, with a focus on new British artists.
Tue Aug 04
Tuesday 00:30 - 06:30
Talented young soloists, violinist Ludvig Gudim and pianist Valdemar Wenzel Most perform a recital at the church in Nyborg, Denmark.