Today 00:30 - 06:30
The Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra play Schubert's 'Great' Symphony No 9, and Ukrainian violinist Dmytro Udovychenko joins them for Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor.
703: BBC Radio 3
Thu Oct 15
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 for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Today 13:00 - 16:00
Linton Stephens with performances from the UK and abroad, championing the music of Black British composers & artists. Antony Marwood plays Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto.
Today 16:00 - 17:00
4/5. Kate Molleson explores Tania León's journey as a conductor alongside her composing career, with the composer in interview.
Today 17:00 - 19:00
Katie introduces live music from the Tony Kofi & Denys Baptiste Quintet.
Today 19:00 - 19:30
Half an hour of back-to-back classical music, including works by Hamilton Harty, Steve Reich, Henry Purcell and Pauline Hall.
Today 19:30 - 21:45
Viola player Timothy Ridout and the Munich Chamber Orchestra play music including Dobrinka Tabakova's vibrant Suite in the Old Style and Britten's lively Simple Symphony.
Today 21:45 - 22:00
A small patch of Montparnasse in Paris has been home to some influential writers and poets, and also to those living a spiritual life. Is there a connection, asks Joanna Robertson.
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
This week, 'Round Midnight joins in on the BBC's The Music Is Black season, in collaboration with the V&A East in London.
Fri Oct 16
Tomorrow 00:30 - 06:30
Barbara Hannigan conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in music including Haydn's Symphony No 64, Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and Henry Cowell's Irish Suite.
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 for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Tomorrow 13:00 - 16:00
Linton Stephens with performances from the UK and Europe, celebrating the music of Black British composers & artists, including Jeneba Kanneh-Mason in Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2.
Tomorrow 16:00 - 17:00
5/5. Kate Molleson follows Tania León's trajectory, including receiving a Pulitzer Prize, with the composer in interview.
Tomorrow 17:00 - 19:00
Katie welcomes Theatre and opera director Femi Elufowoju Jr to In Tune. Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge perform live.
Tomorrow 19:00 - 19:30
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.
Tomorrow 19:30 - 21:45
Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser with the BBC Concert Orchestra and soloist Nathan Amaral at Snape Maltings in a celebration of music by black composers. Presented by Linton Stephens.
Tomorrow 21:45 - 22:00
A small patch of Montparnasse in Paris has been home to famous artists, writers and filmmakers. They remain even in death, in the nearby cemetery, a destination in its own right.
Tomorrow 22:00 - 23:30
Jennifer Lucy Allan welcomes Emily Wittbrodt and Regan Bowering into the studio as the newest pairing in our exclusive series of Late Junction collaboration sessions.
Tomorrow 23:30 - 00:30
Soweto shares live music from some of the exciting next generations of musicians that have come through jazz education and talent development charity Tomorrow's Warriors.
Sat Oct 17
Saturday 00:30 - 06:30
In Steve Reich's 90th birthday year, a concert from Madrid features 'Music for Pieces of Wood', the Mallet Quartet and his epic work 'Drumming'.
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 Last Night of the Proms conductor Sakari Oramo about his musical journey, and composer Julian Nott talks about creating the iconic theme to Wallace & Gromit.
Saturday 12:00 - 13:00
Jools is joined by the actress, comedian, impressionist and writer Ronni Ancona.
Saturday 13:00 - 14:00
1848, Prague. As revolution spreads across Europe, composers such as Smetana and Verdi help forge new national identities through music.
Saturday 14:00 - 16:00
Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases. He's joined by Andrew Matthews-Owen and Charlotte Gardner, who surveys Vivaldi's Cello Concertos and makes a top choice.
Saturday 16:00 - 17:00
Edith Bowman presents a mix of movie music. This week, composer and musician Anne Dudley joins to discuss Thomas Newman's score to 'Road to Perdition' in 'Harmonising Hollywood'.
Saturday 17:00 - 18:00
Jess Gillam is joined by the American cellist and composer Clarice Jensen for a listening party, including music by Ligeti, Stravinsky and Bill Callahan.
Saturday 18:00 - 21:30
Juan Diego Flórez stars as Tonio in Donizetti's comic masterpiece from The Royal Opera, where a spirited young woman raised by a regiment of soldiers chooses between love and duty.
Saturday 21:30 - 22:30
Kathryn Tickell presents global folk and roots-based music, and Irish singer and multi-instrumentalist Radie Peat shares her Return Journey selections.
Saturday 22:30 - 00:30
Tom Service with music by Stefano Gervasoni, Laurence Osborn and Phyllis Chen.
Sun Oct 18
Sunday 00:30 - 06:30
The Feldkirch Chamber Chorus with director Benjamin Lack sing Schubert's choral works, including the Deutsche Requiem in G minor and Deutsche Messe.
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
Sarah Walker with a sparkling playlist for your Sunday morning, with classical music from across the globe.
Sunday 12:00 - 13:30
Michael Berkeley's guest is the best-selling writer and President of the Royal Society of Literature, Elif Shafak.
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
Clive Myrie is talking with people of colour about their experiences of being classical musicians. What are some of the difficulties they have faced due to their skin colour?
Sunday 16:00 - 17:00
Alyn Shipton celebrates Black History Month featuring music from Courtney Pine, Ken Snakehips Johnson and his West Indian Band, Joe Harriot, Cassandra Wilson and more.
Sunday 17:00 - 18:00
Hannah French explores the life and music of JS Bach's eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann, whose success as a composer and organist was overshadowed by his 'wayward personality'.
Sunday 18:00 - 19:00
Live from Salisbury Cathedral, with music by Harris, Shephard, Parry and Alcock.
Sunday 19:00 - 19:45
Irish composer Hannah Peel sets out to find what drove Dubliner Tom Munnelly to spend four decades gathering Ireland's largest collection of English-language songs.
Sunday 19:45 - 21:00
Featuring musical fathers and daughters Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Avril, Clara Schumann and Friederich Wieck, and Ravi Shankar, Anoushka and Norah Jones, alongside poems and prose.
Sunday 21:00 - 22:00
Hannah drops into McQueen's repair workshop, meeting the experts bringing damaged instruments back to life.
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 with a late-night journey through new music from today's most exciting genre-defying artists.
Mon Oct 19
Monday 00:30 - 06:30
The entire Hallé family of orchestra and choirs present James MacMillan's Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia and Mahler's life-affirming Fifth Symphony.
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 classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Monday 13:00 - 16:00
Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including a live concert from the NOVO Quartet at Wigmore Hall in London.
Monday 16:00 - 17:00
1/5. Kate Molleson follows young Verdi, whose ambitions soon outgrow his surroundings.
Monday 17:00 - 19:00
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
Monday 19:00 - 19:30
A beautiful soundscape of classical music including Delius's Cuckoo in Spring and Luise Adolpha Le Beau's piano concerto.
Monday 19:30 - 21:45
Piano music by Robert and Clara Schumann and Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, plus a sonata by Shostakovich, played by the recent Radio 3 New Generation Artist Giorgi Gigashvili.
Monday 21:45 - 22:00
John Foxx takes us through the history of the five pianos which have shaped his music. As the lead singer of Ultravox, and a solo artist, pianos have been his life-long obsession.
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
This week Soweto's guest is internationally celebrated American saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins. From Monday to Thursday, he shares some of the jazz albums that inspire him for 4/4.
Tue Oct 20
Tuesday 00:30 - 06:30
Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto, Sibelius's Second Symphony and the tone poem 'Pohjola's Daughter' from the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne.
Tuesday 06:30 - 09:30
Al Ryan 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 classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Tuesday 13:00 - 16:00
Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including the BBC Philharmonic playing Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings in C Major.
Tuesday 16:00 - 17:00
2/5. Verdi makes a big move and comes face to face with devastating tragedy. With Kate Molleson.
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 favourites.
Tuesday 19:30 - 21:45
BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jaime Martin are joined by pianist Steven Osborne in music by Lili Boulanger, Schubert, Beethoven and Berlioz.
Tuesday 21:45 - 22:00
John Foxx takes us through the history of the five pianos which have shaped his music. As the lead singer of Ultravox, and a solo artist, pianos have been his life-long obsession.
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
Soweto Kinch presents another hour of the best in jazz from the UK and around the world, and Immanuel Wilkins is back to share his next 4/4 album pick of the week.
Wed Oct 21
Wednesday 00:30 - 06:30
The Nightingale String Quartet and clarinettist Jonas Frłlund perform music by Danish composers Rued Langgaard and Bent Słrensen, alongside Brahms's Clarinet Quintet.
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 classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Wednesday 13:00 - 15:00
Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Brahms and Schubert live from the BBC Philharmonic Studio in Salford Quays.
Wednesday 15:00 - 16:00
From the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, with music by Weelkes, Harwood, Oliver Tarney and Howells.
Wednesday 16:00 - 17:00
3/5. Kate Molleson explores the opera that rescued Verdi's career and transformed Italian opera.
Wednesday 17:00 - 19:00
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
Wednesday 19:00 - 19:30
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music including relaxing works by Mozart, Rachel Portman and Jules Massenet.
Wednesday 19:30 - 21:45
The celebrated Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner plays a programme that includes JS Bach's Toccata in C minor, Schumann's Fantasie in C, and Schubert's Piano Sonata in C minor.
Wednesday 21:45 - 22:00
John Foxx takes us through the history of the five pianos which have shaped his music. As the lead singer of Ultravox and a solo artist, pianos have been his life-long obsession.
Wednesday 22:00 - 23:30
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Wednesday 23:30 - 00:30
Soweto is back with more exciting new releases and jazz classics, and Immanuel Wilkins returns with another selection from his record collection for 4/4.
Thu Oct 22
Thursday 00:30 - 06:30
Owain Park directs this award-winning vocal ensemble in a programme of motets by Binchois, Brumel, Dunstaple, Willaert, Byrd, Tallis and others.
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 classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Thursday 13:00 - 16:00
Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including the BBC Philharmonic playing Sibelius's Karelia Suite.
Thursday 16:00 - 17:00
4/5. Kate Molleson explores Verdi's battles with authority and societal expectations.
Thursday 17:00 - 19:00
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
Thursday 19:00 - 19:30
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.
Thursday 19:30 - 21:45
Jérôme Kuhn conducts soloists and the BBC Concert Orchestra in a mythologically themed programme, including a semi-staged performance of David Buckley's one-act opera Oracle.
Thursday 21:45 - 22:00
John Foxx takes us through the history of the five pianos which have shaped his music. As the lead singer of Ultravox and a solo artist, pianos have been his life-long obsession.
Thursday 22:00 - 23:30
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Thursday 23:30 - 00:30
Tonight, saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins is back to share his fourth and final jazz record that inspires him, for 4/4.
Fri Oct 23
Friday 00:30 - 06:30
Romanian pianist Andrei Licaret conducts and performs with the 'Magic Summer' Festival Orchestra in a concert from Bucharest featuring Beethoven's 2nd, 3rd and 4th piano concertos.