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When a conductor describes a symphony as ‘the one for my last concert, the one I’d take to a desert island, the one I love most in the world’ you know you’re in for a memorable evening. Yoel Gamzou conducts Mahler's Ninth this evening BBC Radio 3 See you at 7.30pm

Beethoven + Shakespeare = a concert not to be missed. Coriolan to start, Symphony No.1 to close. Plus a Beethoven 250 anniversary tribute and Ophelia finds her voice and insists on being heard. Come join us BBC Radio 3 In Concert from 7.30pm

Sun’s not letting up then. Be like the goats Maria and Blossom and stay well hydrated and join me for cooling Sunday Breakfast Music ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ from 6.30am. Including on men’s singles finals day a tennis loving English composer.

Today we're in London, Belfast and Sheffield for BBC Radio 3 Classical Live. Rachel Podger plays sonatas by Biber live Wigmore Hall, then to Ulster Hall, Belfast for Mozart's Jupiter Ulster Orchestra and finally we're at the Crucible for Dvorak chamber music Ensemble 360 See you 1-4pm

A pause on this morning's walk to construct today's Classical Live playlist. We're partial to Beethoven so Isata Kanneh-Mason plays PC No.4 in Belfast. Plus Bruckner's First Symphony also from the Ulster Hall. And Dvorak's String Quartet No.14 from Rheingau BBC Radio 3 1-4pm

Keeping cool while we contemplate today’s Classical Live ⁦Stephen Hough⁩ plays Brahms monumental First Piano Concerto in a live recording from Ulster Hall. Plus Copland ballet and Dvorak’s most loved chamber work the American String Quartet. See you 1pm ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩

More from Belfast and our featured Ulster Orchestra on today’s Classical Live. We’ll visit the gingerbread house with Humperdinck and try and avoid the ovens and celebrate harvest time with the US composer Libby Larsen’s Deep Summer Music. Come and enjoy ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ 1-4pm

Look at that space! The sound is sensational too as you’ll hear this evening ⁦when Ben Grosvenor and Adam Wood are the soloists in Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.1. Plus Grazyna Bacewicz and Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony ⁦Royal Northern Sinfonia⁩ ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ In Concert 7.30pm

Leaving the birthplace of the railway for the home of the world’s largest classical music festival #PromsCountdownDay See you 1-4pm ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩

Found it. Collecting the roving mic back pack and then off to explore backstage. Come join me 1-4pm ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ #promscountdownday

Five minutes and counting.

In the organ loft with Sir Henry.

30C and we’re outside! Proms Countdown Day live from Royal Albert Hall ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩

A memorable day. Kudos to the R3 production team for a dream debut.

Today on Sunday Breakfast, the usual excellent tunes and we'll be the warm up for this morning's BBC Proms with Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Le Consort. Théotime will no doubt end his Prom with a stunning encore. Let me know your all time favourite encore piece please BBC Radio 3 6.30-9

It’s often the case that your favourite sheep don’t even get ‘looked’ at by the judge. I still stubbornly take my favourite sheep to shows. An Irishman on a coach tour said it was the best Herdwick there and could they buy some like it. So always worth a trip.

Congratulations to Richard Sharp,Grinton smallholder, first prize for his (Yorkshire-bred) gimmer lamb at Penrith yesterday #SheepOfTheDay

Following a weekend off work meeting friends at the coast and in Wensleydale, this afternoon's adrenaline burst is supplied by the violinist Augustin Hadelich; the Mendelssohn violin concerto among the treats. Great summer musicmaking continues on Classical Live BBC Radio 3 1-4pm

Classical Live from BBC Yorkshire bringing you unmissable highlights of the 2025 Proms. Alexandre Kantorow dazzles in Saint-Saens Egyptian piano concerto and much more ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ from 1pm.

On Classical Live two former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists who feature at the Proms 2025. Mariam Batsashvili Mariam Batsashvili and her enthralling Mozart PC 20 from Sunday evening and a preview of Martin Fröst's Thursday Prom. Plus a glorious Bruckner 7 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra See you 1pm