Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Monday with Suzy Klein - David Nicholls, Faure's Pavane, Fairy tales
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, and a leading figure from the arts world lists their cultural inspirations and influences. Show more
Donald Macleod journeys through Beethoven's early career and the composition of his first piano concerto. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Fatma Said and James Vaughan
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
New Generation Artist Fatma Said in her brilliant 2018 Wigmore Hall debut with songs by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Poulenc and Egyptian composer Sherif Mohie El Din. Show more
Tom McKinney presents highlights from the 2017 Lucerne Festival, featuring Riccardo Chailly conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in orchestral favourites by Richard Strauss. Show more
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. His guests include Andreas Ottensamer, Donald Shaw and A4 Brass. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: including music by Saint-Saens, Heinrich, Brad Mehldau, Smetana's Dance of the Comedians and a Polish folk song by Henryk Gorecki.
The Sixteen recorded at Kings Place in a concert that links Monteverdi's music to the polyphonic tradition which influenced him and interleaves it with the poetry of Seamus Heaney. Show more
Music Matters
James Rhodes, Monteverdi and the Genesis Suite
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
An interview with pianist James Rhodes. Also, Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses in a new ROH production; and the Genesis Suite, a piece by composers exiled in America during WWII. Show more
King Ceyx must journey by sea to consult the oracle, despite his wife's premonitions. First of five stories about love dramatized from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Show more
Soweto Kinch presents Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-based composer Darcy James Argue with his 18 piece ensemble Secret Society in concert at the 2017 London Jazz Festival. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a 2015 BBC Prom with the Halle Orchestra and conductor Sir Mark Elder. Show more