Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Tuesday with Rob Cowan - Sibelius's Finlandia, Derren Brown, LOLs
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Rob Cowan looks for potential companion pieces to Sibelius' 'Finlandia', plus we hear from illusionist Derren Brown. Show more
As part of the BBC's opera season, Donald Macleod follows Vivaldi during his period at the court in Mantua. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
St Magnus Festival 2017
Episode 1: St Magnus International Festival: Trondheim Soloists
58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The Trondheim Soloists play movements from Bach's Goldberg Variations and Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall in Orkney. Show more
Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic, with a particular focus on works by Elgar. Featuring Elgar's Symphony No 1. Show more
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Sean's guests include conductor Vassily Sinaisky and mezzo Anna Stephany. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist featuring music by Debussy, Chopin and Verdi as well as Gershwin's Damsel in Distress and a poem from the heart by Frank Bridge.
Radio 3 in Concert
Pavel Haas Quartet - Live from Wigmore Hall: Stravinsky, Ravel, Dvorak
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Pavel Haas Quartet play music by Stravinsky, Ravel and Dvorak. Presented by Martin Handley. Show more
Salman Rushdie talks fiction and US politics with Shahidha Bari plus a discussion of certainty as Marianne Elliott directs Simon Stephens' 'Heisenberg The Uncertainty Principle'. Show more
We all remember where we were as a child when a particular world event took place, but psychologist Chris French asks how reliable childhood memories are. Show more
Verity Sharp is joined by Claire M Singer, director of the Organ Reframed festival at London's Union Chapel, and later marks Thelonious Monk's centenary. Show more
Catriona Young presents a recital from the Peralada Festival with Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili. The pianist is David Aladashvili. Show more