Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and our musical Advent Calendar. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Monday with Suzy Klein - March from Vaughan Williams' Sea Songs, the founding of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sebastian Faulks
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Suzy Klein's guest is novelist Sebastian Faulks. Show more
Donald Macleod looks at Camille Saint-Saens's determination to introduce symphonic and chamber music to a Parisian public who were more interested in operatic spectacle. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, pianist and former BBC Young Musician Lara Melda plays Chopin's four ballades and Liszt's Ballade No 2 in B minor. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Show more
Afternoon Concert
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Moritz Gnann, Karl Jenkins, Xian Zhang
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Fiona Talkington presents the BBC NOW in a concert including Sibelius's The Swan of Tuonela, Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and Beethoven's Symphony No 4. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, conversation and arts news - plus we hear from the conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Show more
A special mix inspired by Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No 1, as played at the opening of Abbey Road studios - a key moment in Radio 3's Our Classical Century. Show more
Kristjan Jarvi conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in 21st-century reworkings of Bach and Handel, and recent major works by Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Show more
Tom Service talks to Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa. Composer Matthew Shlomowitz gets inside Luciano Berio's Sinfonia, plus, when is it time to retire from the concert stage? Show more
Author and former magazine editor David Hepworth discusses our enduring relationship with vinyl. Part one of a five-part series. Show more
Soweto Kinch presents a session by pianist Christian Sands. Show more
In Paris, 1905, Ricardo Vines premiered many works by Debussy and Ravel. Laurent Wagschal recreates one of the Spanish pianist's recitals. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more