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Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, with gorgeous sounds ranging from the 18th century right up to the present day.

The CBSO plays Mendelssohn and Alma Mahler, and American mezzo-soprano and winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Jamie Barton is the soloist in Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder.

Stephen Wyatt champions the essential but often overlooked contribution that librettists and lyricists make to great operas and musicals.

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

The star US singer and composer selects four of his best loved albums this week.

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Beethoven's Symphony no 9, alongside a new work by the German composer, Torsten Rasch.

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

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favorites.

Linton Stephens showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Brahms Violin Concerto with Ning Feng and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

2/5. As young Palestrina makes a name for himself in Rome, Donald Macleod opens the venerable score of the Mass which is considered to have marked a turning point in music history.

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.

The London Symphony Orchestra showcases Richard Strauss' tone poems Till Eulenspiegel and Ein Heldenleben, while violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Mozart's Violin Concerto No 5.

Stephen Wyatt champions the essential but often overlooked contribution that librettists and lyricists make to great operas and musicals.

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

The Newcastle-based singer-songwriter and pianist is back with a latest track.

Leif Ove Andsnes plays Rachmaninov's third concerto for the piano, regarded as among the hardest compositions written for the instrument. Jonathan Swain presents.

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

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favorites.

Linton Stephens showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including James MacMillan's Concerto for Orchestra 'Ghosts' with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Live from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, with music by Gibbons and Weelkes.

3/5. Palestrina is employed by popes and princes, with his fame spreading beyond Rome: Donald Macleod sees how he is now working on the reformation of music after the Council of Trent.

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.

VOCES8 are joined on stage at London's Barbican by the BBC Singers, VOCES8 Scholars, former members of the ensemble and special guests, as they celebrate their 20th anniversary.

Stephen Wyatt champions the essential but often overlooked contribution that librettists and lyricists make to great operas and musicals.

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

Soweto spins a single from the leading UK seven-piece ahead of their forthcoming album.