Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Chabrier's Espana, Kwame Kwei-Armah, The Pointe of Shoes
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein presents the best in classical music, including potential companion pieces to Emmanuel Chabrier's Espana. Plus featured guest Kwame Kwei-Armah. Show more
Donald Macleod, in conversation with Sir Antonio Pappano, traces the developmental line of Puccini's meticulously crafted dramatic heroines. Today, passion and murder for Tosca. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Chopin and his Europe 2017
Episode 2: Chopin and his Europe - Chopin and Beethoven
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Seong-jin Cho, winner of the 2015 Chopin Piano Competition, plays Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata and Chopin's Four Ballades at Warsaw's Chopin and His Europe Festival. Show more
Penny Gore continues her week of performances and recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Featuring a concert the orchestra gave in Newtown, Powys. Show more
Live from Gloucester Cathedral on the Feast of Luke the Evangelist. Show more
New Generation Artists
Kathryn Rudge and Christian Ihle Hadland in Finzi and Handel
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Penny Gore introduces performances from some of Radio 3's New Generation Artists, past and present in music by Handel and Finzi. Show more
In Tune
Stephen Fry and Louis Mander, Chloe Hanslip and Danny Driver, Dinara Klinton
1 hour, 58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty presents, with guests including Stephen Fry and composer Louis Mander, who have collaborated on a new opera. Plus violinist Chloë Hanslip and pianist Danny Driver. Show more
A specially-curated mixtape with music by Bach and Bartok, Rossini writing for cello and double bass, Bernstein for trumpet and piano, and a cameo from the Count Basie Orchestra. Show more
Gergely Madras conducts the Ulster Orchestra, with Kodaly's Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, Britten's Piano Concerto with soloist Steven Osborne and Stravinsky's The Firebird. Show more
Matthew Sweet discusses memory and Marnie with guests, including Andrew Graham - son of Marnie author Winston. Show more
David Threlfall saw his first opera, Zeffirelli's production of La Boheme, in New York in 1980. Since then his relationship with the art has suffered a few disappointments. Show more
Nick Luscombe shares fuzz guitar from 1970s Zambia, radiophonic music for a decomposing amusement park and Tom Service responds to Robert Wyatt's query on vibrato 50 years later. Show more
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