BBC R3 Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. 2026-05-17 Join Sarah Walker for a wide-ranging Sunday mix, from Baroque elegance and Romantic piano writing to choral stillness and symphonic drama. 2026-05-17 Michael Berkeley's guest is the historian and broadcaster Michael Wood. 2026-05-17 Sara Mohr-Pietsch hits the dancefloor, exploring the world of Marquez's Danzón No 2. Featuring Latin American influences, unofficial national anthems and even the theme from Bluey. 2026-05-17 Psychotherapist and broadcaster Nemone Metaxas is joined by conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya to delve into our relationship with music and untangle why it means so much to us. 2026-05-17 Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you including selections from Oscar Peterson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Irene Kral and Eva Cassidy. 2026-05-17 Hannah French explores Heinrich Schutz's 26 psalm settings, which were one of the first major collections of choral music in the German language. 2026-05-17 Live from Bristol Cathedral on the Eve of the Ascension, with music by Stanford, Jonathan Dove, Finzi and Laurin. 2026-05-17 Lindsay Johns explores the flourishing of operatic talent in post-Apartheid South Africa. 2026-05-17 Celebrating wildflowers like the bluebell, with poetry from Emily Bronte and CM Barker's The Flower Fairies; and nettles and other weeds with Edward Thomas and Marguerite Duras. 2026-05-17 7/12. Gather by the fireside with Erland Cooper for a warming selection of luminous sounds. Plus ethereal musician Bat for Lashes shares her musical safe haven. 2026-05-17 Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. 2026-05-17 Elizabeth Alker with a late-night journey through new music from today's most exciting genre-defying artists. 2026-05-17 The German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin plays Barber's Violin Concerto with the American violinist Randall Goosby. Shostakovich's intriguing sixth symphony completes the programme. 2026-05-17 Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. 2026-05-18 Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. 2026-05-18 Elizabeth Alker introduces an afternoon of specially made recordings including a live concert from Wigmore Hall from Trio Gaspard performing music by Franz Schubert. 2026-05-18 1/5. Donald Macleod invites you to Renaissance Rome, starting in a small town outside of the Eternal City, where our investigation into the origins of Giovanni da Palestrina begins.. 2026-05-18 Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee perform from their new album Or, The Whale. 2026-05-18 Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, with works by Takashi Yoshimatsu, Madeleine Dring and John Rutter. 2026-05-18 Tchaikovsky juggles beauty and suffering, Benjamin Britten reflects powerfully on grief and conflict, and Leonard Bernstein grapples with the modern world. 2026-05-18 Dr Rommi Smith examines a turning-point moment in the life of five Black female musicians, revealing lesser-known aspects of their life and work, going behind stereotypes. 2026-05-18 Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. 2026-05-18 This week, London-based drummer, percussionist and bandleader Jas Kayser is sitting in for Soweto Kinch, sharing some exciting jazz releases from the UK and around the world. 2026-05-18 The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra performs Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, Rachmaninov's The Bells and Thomas Adès's America: A Prophecy. 2026-05-18