Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Tuesday with Ian Skelly - New Year New Music, Harrison Birtwistle, The Stone of Saxagonus
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
The best in classical music, including music for New Year New Music that steps from the old to the new. Plus Sir Harrison Birtwistle's cultural inspirations. Show more
Donald Macleod explores works by Colin Matthews inspired by music of the past including Minimalism, Mahler and Strauss. Show more
Ian Skelly presents highlights of the Schubertiade, including music by Dvorak and Schumann. Show more
As part of New Year New Music, conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen talks about his recordings of music by John Adams. Show more
In Tune
Mark Padmore and Andrew West, Gerald Finley, Laura van der Heijden and Petr Limonov
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Katie Derham presents, with live music from tenor Mark Padmore and cellist Laura van der Heijden. Plus baritone Gerald Finley talks to Derham about performing the role of Scarpia. Show more
Stephen Fry introduces his own specially curated classical mixtape. Playing some of the music that means the most to him by composers including Mozart, Bach, Wagner and Strauss. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert of new work by James Weeks, Linda Catlin Smith, Kerry Andrew & Philip Glass played by An Assembly, Serge Vuille, You Are Wolf & James McVinnie. Show more
Philip Dodd is joined by Roger Scruton, Haroon Mirza, Kevin Davey and Kirsty Gunn to explore writing, modernism and experiment from TS Eliot onwards. Show more
Novelist Melissa Harrison on the joy of 'sleeping with books' at Gladstone's Library, the only residential library in the UK. Show more
In our first show of 2018, Max Reinhardt welcomes in the New Year and explores themes of rebirth and renewal. Show more
Through the Night
BBC Proms 2015: Sibelius Symphony Cycle - Symphonies 1 and 2
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
Catriona Young presents performances from the 2015 BBC Proms of Sibelius's first and second symphonies. Show more