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'Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch, who spins new music from the Canadian group BADBADNOTGOOD.

Violinist Tobias Feldmann, cellist Harriet Krijgh and pianist Lauma Skride perform trios by Beethoven, Smetana and Schubert at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg in Austria.

Hannah French presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem. Email your requests to [email protected].

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Elizabeth Alker puts childhood at the heart of today's programme with a performance of Engelbert Humperdinck's magical operatic evocation of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.

5/5. Donald Macleod discovers how singing has helped sustain Latvia's population in the face of oppression, and how Latvian composers have been inspired by messages of hope at Christmas.

Music by Elgar, Dvorak and Ginastera from violinist Hana Chang, the Kleio Quartet and tenor Santiago Sanchez - stars of the future - in their first recordings at the BBC.

Actors Amanda Hale and Oliver Alvin-Wilson read a selection of poetry and prose wrapped in a varied selection of music exploring feelings and ideas about the nature of 'warmth'.

BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: Dinis Sousa conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia in music by Tailleferre, Sibelius & Dvorak.

Writer and broadcaster Norman Lebrecht talks to the charismatic Lithuanian conductor, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla.

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from experimental noise duo Pollution Opera, the new project of sound artists, vocalists and disruptors Nadah el Shazly and Elvin Brandhi.

Soweto Kinch presents a look back at some of the great names in jazz that have passed away in 2024.