Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Thursday with Suzy Klein - Rachmaninov's second piano concerto, Bridget Kendall, Vikings in Russia
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, and journalist Bridget Kendall lists her cultural influences and inspirations. Show more
Composer of the Week
Soviet Russia (1917-1953)
Episode 4: A Tale of Dmitri and Dmitry: Shostakovich and Kabalevsky
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod and Marina Frolova-Walker tell the story of Dmitri Shostakovich's infamous censure by the state in the mid-1930s, and that of Dmitry Kabalevsky. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Russian Revolutionaries
Episode 3: Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture - Russian Revolutionaries. Anna Vinnitskaya
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano) performs at LSO St Luke's in London. Tchaikovsky: January, March and April (The Seasons). Shostakovich: Dances of the Dolls. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 6. Show more
Penny Gore presents the opera matinee: Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, conducted by Ivor Bolton at Madrid's Teatro Real. Then, Shostakovich's Symphony No 12. Show more
Katie Derham presents, with guests including baritone Florian Boesch, who performs live, as do string quartet Meta4. Plus conductor and baroque specialist David Bates. Show more
A specially-curated mixtape including music by Beethoven and Monteverdi, as well as Berio reworking Boccherini and Bjork's take on a choral work by Icelandic composer Jorunn Vidar. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, live from Hull City Halls.
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Alexander Shelley conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich in a fairy-tale programme of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov live at Hull City Halls. Show more
Free Thinking
Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik in conversation with Anne McElvoy, recorded with an audience at Pushkin House, plus Alexander Brodsky's pavilion. Show more
Director and writer Richard Eyre appraises the Russian Revolution's impact on theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold, at first an enthusiastic Bolshevik, later victim of the regime. Show more
Idiosyncratic Icelandic icon Björk reveals the music that has been inspiring her work and outlook lately, ahead of the release of new album Utopia. Show more
Through the Night
Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture. Archive performances by The Moscow Philharmonic and Kiril Kondrashin
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
John Shea presents 1968 recordings of the Mosow Philharmonic and Kiril Kondrashin as part of Radio 3's Century of Russian Culture. Show more
