Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, A Strange Meeting, Sue MacGregor
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
A sequence of great music in classic recordings.
Donald Macleod explores the year 1816, a year in which Schubert made his first money from composing after his friends encouraged him to leave teaching and devote himself to music. Show more
Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces Schubert songs performed by Carolyn Sampson, and piano works by Tchaikovsky and Beethoven played by Barry Douglas, recorded in Devon and Somerset. Show more
Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Today the orchestra perform live Stravinsky's tone poem Song of the Nightingale and music by Rossini and Mozart. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. His guests include pianist Anna Tsybuleva, who performs live in the studio. Show more
In Tune's specially curated mixtape: some sprightly strings from Rossini, a soothing oboe from Albinoni and a dramatic cello from Mendelssohn. Plus Orff, Tchaikovsky and Bernstein. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain plays music by Liadov, Dukas and Bartok.
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain plays music by Liadov, Dukas and Bartok. Show more
Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd to explore translating, rewriting and using Homer's epic work to frame a memoir. Show more
Writer Sara Maitland conjures with a rock of ages, Lewisian gneiss. Two-thirds the age of the earth, it began its journey where Antarctica is today and makes up parts of Scotland. Show more
Late Junction
Anne Hilde Neset with live music from All Ears Festival
1 hour, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Broadcasting live from Oslo, Norway, Anne Hilde Neset welcomes local musicians to the studio in order to preview All Ears Festival for Improvised Music. Show more
Catriona Young presents a performance from the 2017 BBC Proms of Handel's oratorio 'Israel in Egypt' performed by the Orchestra and Choir of the Age of Enlightenment. Show more