Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Jackie Kay, Nocturne from Borodin's 2nd String Quartet, The Baddeley Cake
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus the poet and novelist Jackie Kay on the things that inspire her. Show more
Giovanni Gabrieli was organist for both Saint Mark's and the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. Donald Macleod turns his attention to the music Gabrieli wrote for the Scuola Grande. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
2018 Hay Festival - Mendelssohn Plus performed by Tom Poster
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sarah Walker presents Mendelssohn Plus performed by pianist Tom Poster at the 2018 Hay Festival. Includes works by Mendelssohn, Szymanowska and Clara Schumann. Show more
Afternoon Concert
BBC Philharmonic: music by George Antheil live from Salford
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Stuart Flinders presents a live invitation concert in which the BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Storgards celebrate the self-styled 'bad boy of music', George Antheil. Show more
An archive recording from Peterborough Cathedral first broadcast on 11 October 1972. Show more
Guitarist Thibaut Garcia plays a sonata by Silvius Leopold Weiss and pianist Beatrice Rana plays Debussy's suite Pour le piano. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents. His guests include composer Debbie Wiseman and pianist Paul Lewis, who performs live, as do tenor Benjamin Hulett and baritone Jonathan McGovern. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, featuring music by Handel, Chopin and Britten. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
The BBC Philharmonic perform Szymanowski and Tchaikovsky
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's epic 'Manfred' Symphony. They are joined by Tasmin Little for Symanowski's ground-breaking First Violin Concerto. Show more
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written about Auden, Dostoevsky and tragedy. At Hay Festival he talks to poet Simon Armitage about landscape in poetry. Show more
Fiona Sampson chooses a favourite, female fictional character, Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and ponders the lessons we all could learn from her. Recorded at the Hay Festival. Show more
A midweek meander around unexplored, unexamined, uncompromising corners of music. Featured artists include Pumpuang Duangjan, Walther Fahndrich, and The Necessaries. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents performances from the cello category finals of the 2016 George Enescu International Festival and Competition in Bucharest. Show more
