BBC R3 Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. 2026-10-25 Join Sarah Walker for a Sunday mix, from Baroque brilliance and medieval choral music to Russian symphonic drama, plus a little encouragement to enjoy that extra hour in bed. 2026-10-25 Michael Berkeley's guest is the comedy performer, writer and Monty Python star Eric Idle. 2026-10-25 Sara Mohr-Pietsch navigates a musical pathway to Gustav Mahler's Nachtmusik, the second movement from his Seventh Symphony. 2026-10-25 Clive Myrie talks with people of colour about their lives as classical musicians. 2026-10-25 Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, including cuts from Duke Ellington, The Vampires, Madeline Bell and more. 2026-10-25 Hannah French talks to organist William Whitehead about the 17th-century composer John Lugge, who spent most of his life working at Exeter Cathedral. 2026-10-25 From the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, with music by Weelkes, Harwood, Oliver Tarney and Howells. 2026-10-25 There is a river in Bristol called the Malago. Small and often overlooked. But now, a group of locals have come together to write songs for it. And every song has a story to tell. 2026-10-25 From the battlefield to the barracks: Catherine Fletcher explores the continuing role of music for soldiers. 2026-10-25 The readers Anton Lesser and Josette Simon with poems and prose, such as Roger McGough and Emily Brontë, alongside music evoking autumn, including Vivaldi and Elena Kats-Chernin. 2026-10-25 From ancient curses to mysterious chasms, Hannah Peel plays pieces inspired by myth and legend. 2026-10-25 Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. 2026-10-25 Elizabeth Alker shares a playlist of late-night ambient music and genre-defying releases, and is joined by 6 Music host Zakia, who shares a track that transports her. 2026-10-25 Concerto Copenhagen with director and harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Mortensen and vocalist Marc Mauillon perform music by Rore, Marini, Strozzi, Peri, Castello, Caccini and Monteverdi. 2026-10-26 Al Ryan presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. 2026-10-26 Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. 2026-10-26 The Orsino Ensemble play wind music by Barber, Nielsen and a UK premiere of Mark Simpson's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Plus, Gabriela Montero's 'Latin Concerto'. 2026-10-26 Donald Macleod meets the friends (and foes) of composer Clara Schumann. Today, we hear how her husband Robert was entranced from the moment he first heard her play. 2026-10-26 Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva on the London piano festival. James Baillieu on his appointment as Artistic Director of the Two Moors Festival from 2028. 2026-10-26 Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites. 2026-10-26 The celebrated Italian pianist Beatrice Rana performs works by Debussy, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky in a recital from the Sala Sinopoli in Rome. 2026-10-26 Five musicians offer an intimate, soloist's-eye-view of some of classical music's masterpieces. 2026-10-26 Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. 2026-10-26 Broadcaster, jazz singer and actor Jumoké Fashola is sitting in for Soweto Kinch this week, and tonight she welcomes her Flowers guest, cellist and singer Ayanna Witter-Johnson. 2026-10-26