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4/5. Donald Macleod meets the friends (and foes) of composer Clara Schumann. Today, two close friends who supported Clara through difficult times.

New chamber music by Helen Leach live in studio. Series producer Lara Bickerton and composer Laurentia Editha on Blue Planet III.

Half an hour of back-to-back classical music including a beautiful piano concerto by Dora Bright, Elgar's 'Nimrod' and Voces8 singing a choral work by Christopher Tin.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Timothy Redmond mark the 60 years since the Aberfan disaster with a new commission by Paul Mealor: From Darkness into Light.

A soloist prepares to play a celebrated work of classical repertoire. Cellist, Laura van der Heijden, rehearses Bach's Cello Suite No.1 in G major.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a spooky Halloween-inspired programme for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

Jumoké Fashola returns with more exciting new releases and jazz classics, and Ayanna Witter-Johnson has a third artist that has been formative for her, for Flowers.

The Norwegian Radio Orchestra and conductor Petr Popelka play Dvorák's Symphony No 6, Mozart's Symphony No 25 and the premiere of Sigurd Fischer Olsen's Hypnagogia.

Al Ryan presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email [email protected].

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

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs a much-loved symphony plus chamber music highlights from the New Ross Piano Festival.

5/5. Donald Macleod meets the friends (and foes) of composer Clara Schumann. Today, we explore the women who are often erased from Clara's life story.

Itzhak Perlman on his new album featuring the voice of Ella Fitzgerald. Live music from the cast of folk musical Franz and Marie.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites including works by Edward Elgar, Hildegard of Bingen and Claude Debussy.

Rushil Ranjan and Abi Sampa with a spectacular dialogue between centuries-old Sufi devotional traditions and Western symphonic music. Melvin Tay conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra.

A soloist prepares to play a celebrated piece of classical repertoire. Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen rehearses Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

In a programme first broadcast in 2023, Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from stand-up comedian and record producer James Acaster.

Tonight, on the eve of Halloween, Jumoké Fashola welcomes her guest, Leeds based composer and bandleader Fergus Quill. He has curated a special mixtape of bone-chilling tracks.

Baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton perform at London's Wigmore Hall, in a recital taking inspiration from the soothing music of BBC Radio 4's 'Shipping Forecast'.

Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email [email protected].

Tom Service talks to Jakub Hrusa, Music Director of the Royal Opera.

Jools is joined by the pianist and conductor Joanna MacGregor.

...Essential History of Classical Music. 1861, St Petersburg. Russia's newly freed serfs inspire a musical revolution.

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases, joined by Marina Frolova-Walker and Jeremy Summerly, who surveys recordings of Handel's Semele.

Edith Bowman presents a haunting selection of the best film scores and soundtracks. Featuring a special interview with composer Anna Meredith about her score to 'Wicker'.

Jess Gillam is joined by the pianist Cordelia Williams for a listening party, including music by Prokofiev, Bach and Joni Mitchell.

Stanislas de Barbeyrac stars as the protagonist Parsifal in Wagner's final opera with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House and conductor Jakub Hrusa.

Kate Molleson with specially recorded music from the inaugural UK edition of Always, Already There: The Afrodiasporic Avant-Garde Incubator Project at the Barbican in London.

The Icelandic flautist plays Prokofiev, Villa-Lobos and Mendelssohn with cellist Sigurgeir Agnarsson and pianist Liam Kaplan.

Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email [email protected].

Sarah Walker with the perfect classical playlist to welcome in the month of November, including music by Brahms, Bruckner and Fauré.

Michael Berkeley's guest is Louise Kennedy, who worked as a chef for 30 years before deciding to become a writer and enjoying great success with her first novel, Trespasses.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores Stravinsky's fantastical Firebird Suite, alongside Handel's sorcerers, Bizet's circle dance and Duke Ellington's magical octotonic scale.

Justin Webb (Today and Americast presenter) explores the surprising relationship between classical music and American political history.

Alyn Shipton with a selection of classics and new releases including music from Stan Tracey, Gil Scott-Heron, Blossom Dearie, Arizona Dranes and Sofia Isobel.

Hannah French, in conversation with Professor Laurie Stras of the University of Huddersfield, seeks the real Lucrezia Borgia through the music she knew and loved.

From St James's Piccadilly, London, with Genesis Sixteen Alumni, with music by Lucy Walker, Stanford, Will Todd and Howells.

Alpesh Chauhan and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales join three young musicians in the Final of the BBC Young Musician 2026 from Bristol Beacon.

Hannah plays a winning performance inspired by Emily Bronte's poetry and explores the reality of life for many banders.

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

In the week of Bonfire Night, Elizabeth Alker shares a soothing mix of genre-defying tracks to counter the fireworks and settle the pooch.