Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Fur Elise, Tudor posture, Siân Phillips
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actress Sian Phillips. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on two completely contrasting, yet pivotal, works: Dvorak's Stabat Mater and Moravian Duets. Plus the Symphonic Variations. Show more
Highlghts of the 2018 Schwetzingen Festival with Sarah Walker. The Apollon Musagete Quartet perform Mozart and pianist Bernard Chamayou tackles more Liszt. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Wednesday - BBC Philharmonic live from MediaCityUK
1 hour, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Tom McKinney with the second of this week's live concerts from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford. Hungarian violinist Kristof Barati performs Bartok's Second Violin Concerto. Show more
From the Chapel of Rugby School. Show more
Current New Generation Artist, violist Eivind Ringstad, plays Schumann's Marchenbilder and former NGA Mahan Esfahani plays a Fantasia by JS Bach. Show more
In Tune
Pinchas Zukerman, Amanda Forsyth and Angela Cheng, Benjamin Zander, Meow Meow and Barry Humphries
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Katie Derham's guests include violinist Pinchas Zukerman with Amanda Forsyth and Angela Cheng, plus cabaret star Meow Meow and comedian Barry Humphries. Show more
In Tune's curated playlist includes music by Dvořák, Eric Whitacre and Kodály, as well as performances by Catrin Finch with Seckou Keita, and Bjarte Eike with Barokksolistene. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Nicola Benedetti and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra play Shostakovich.
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from the Symphony Hall in Birmingham, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla conducts the CBSO in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with Nicola Benedetti. Show more
Beauty from the Renaissance to the present. Painter Charlotte Joffe, philosopher Heather Widdows, and writer and historian Catherine Fletcher talk to Anne McElvoy. Show more
Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England by the writer Sarah Scott. Recorded with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas. Show more
Late Junction
Nick Luscombe with music from the Supersonic Festival
1 hour, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Put your headphones and space helmets on for otherworldly music, mystical sounds, and transcendent live highlights from the Supersonic Festival. Show more
Catriona Young presents a recital of music by Jean Henry d'Anglebert, JS Bach, Nicholas de Grigny and Couperin by harpsichordist Andreas Staier. Show more