Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday with Rob Cowan - Pigeon Cure, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, Christine Rice
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Rob Cowan brings the best in classical music, including potential companion pieces for Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture 'Romeo and Juliet'. Show more
Donald Macleod explores how the sights and sounds of Italy stimulated Mendelssohn's creative mind. With Rondo capriccioso, Op 14; Ferne, Op 9 No 9; Surrexit pastor bonus, Op 39. Show more
Petroc Trelawny presents a concert from Radio 3's Big Chamber Weekend at Hull UK City of Culture 2017. Music by Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Beethoven and Coleridge-Taylor. Show more
Penny Gore presents the Radio France Philharmonic in Haydn's 'Drumroll' Symphony No 103 and Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23. Show more
An Archive recording from 2006 of Choral Vespers for the Feast of St Francis of Assisi from Montserrat Abbey, Spain, with the Pilgrim Consort. Show more
New Generation Artists
Beatrice Rana and Benjamin Appl in Bach and Schubert
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Penny Gore presents a new weekday programme featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artists past and present. On this show, Beatrice Rana plays Bach and Benjamin Appl sings Schubert. Show more
A special programme celebrating 10 years of the BBC Introducing scheme, with live performances from several BBC Classical Introducing artists. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist features music by Mozart, Verardi and Reich as well as Dowland and Duke Ellington. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Rhythm of Life: Kirill Karabits conducts Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Rhythm of Life: Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Bizet's Symphony in C and Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie. Show more
Alan Hollinghurst talks to Anne McElvoy and a Proms Extra audience about his new novel The Sparsholt Affair, which traces changing attitudes to sexuality across generations. Show more
Decluttering is all the rage, as many of us are weighed down by stuff. Joanna Robertson lives in Paris, where apartments are small. So how do they go about it? Or do they? Show more
Fiona Talkington shares a vaporwave 'dream installation', European chamber jazz and an archive field recording of female musicians from Afghanistan. Show more
John Shea presents a concert from Bratislava of contemporary music with pianist Ivan Siller and solo violinist Milan Pal'a, including Charles Ives's Quarter-Tone Pieces. Show more
