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 - Joyce DiDonato, Junk Telegrams, Debussy's Reverie
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, plus mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato lists her influences and inspirations. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the effect of the WWI on the music of Maurice Ravel, as the composer commemorates the fallen and goes on to develop a leaner style to match the new Jazz Age. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Michael Collins and Friends at LSO St Lukes (3/4)
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
In the third concert this week given by clarinettist Michael Collins and friends, pianist Michael McHale and violist Lawrence Power join him in works by Mozart, Bruch and Brahms. Show more
Georgia Mann presents Opera Matinee: a controversial production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov from Gothenburg Opera, with British bass Clive Bayley in the title role. Show more
Katie Derham with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Katie's guests include Vox Luminis, Inon Barnatan and Howard Goodall. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist of non-stop music to put you in a party mood, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises. Tracks by Mozart, Verdi and Rodrigo. Show more
Daniele Gatti and the Phiharmonia Orchestra perform two of the warmest symphonies in the repertoire, both the result of happy holidays: Mendelssohn's 'Italian' and Brahms's Second. Show more
Free Thinking
Tacita Dean, Mountains, John Tyndall
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
How to see a landscape through the eyes of visual artist Tacita Dean plus what photography did for the mountaineer and what the mountain did for a physicist. Show more
Joanna Robertson on how after the fall of communism in their country Albanians tried to buy dreams of wealth, only for them to be ruined by pyramid schemes. Show more
Music and place, sound in space: tonight's tunes speak to the architectural and environmental conditions in which they were made. Artists include Colin Riley and Jez Riley French. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a programme of Palestrina, Gombert, Le Jeune and Lassus with Huelgas Ensemble directed by Paul van Nevel. Show more
