12:30 AM - 06:30 AM
Through the Night
Solomon's Knot performs Handel's Esther, a story of persecution, hardship and divine rescue, at the 2024 Saar International Music Festival.
06:30 AM - 09:30 AM
Breakfast
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including this week's 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century piece. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
09:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Essential Classics
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favorites.
01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Classical Live
Linton Stephens showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including a live recital from London's Wigmore Hall with Mariam Batsashvili.
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Composer of the Week: Palestrina
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...
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
In Tune
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
07:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Classical Mixtape
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.
07:30 PM - 09:45 PM
Radio 3 in Concert
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.
09:45 PM - 10:00 PM
The Essay: Unsung Heroes
Stephen Wyatt champions the essential but often overlooked contribution that librettists and lyricists make to great operas and musicals.
10:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Night Tracks
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
11:30 PM - 12:30 AM
'Round Midnight
The star US singer and composer selects four of his best loved albums this week.
12:30 AM - 06:30 AM
Through the Night
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.