Live from BBC Maida Vale, Petroc Trelawny presents the BBC Singers performing the shortlisted entries in this year’s Breakfast Carol Competition. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Dan Snow, Ravel's Mother Goose, Berg's Violin Concerto
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. His guest is historian Dan Snow. Show more
Donald Macleod looks into Schubert's friendships and focuses on the year 1820. Music includes two of his unfinished works, the Quartettsatz in C minor, D703, and oratorio Lazarus. Show more
The Schwarzenberg Schubertiade 2018: John Shea presents Mozart's String Quartet in B flat, 'The Hunt', and songs on the theme of man and nature by Mozart, Schumann and Schubert. Show more
Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic performing Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Anna Clyne's This Midnight Hour and excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake live from MediaCityUK Show more
Live from St Stephen Walbrook, London with St Martin’s Voices. Show more
Egyptian soprano Fatma Said sings Poulenc and former NGA, Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, plays Stravinsky's Suite after Pulcinella Show more
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from the genre-fluid Kosmos Ensemble and pianist Bertrand Chamayou. Plus composer and conductor Eric Whitacre joins in the studio. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist, including music by seventeenth-century Italian nun Isabella Leonarda, and Ethiopian nun Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou. Show more
Arcangelo and director Jonathan Cohen are joined by soprano Louise Alder and countertenor Tim Mead in Handel's Cantata, The Amorous Duel. Show more
'I was documenting the history of black people in Britain as that history was being made.' Linton Kwesi Johnson discusses poetry, politics and music with Philip Dodd. Show more
Author Minoo Dinshaw is drawn to Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Third Symphony. Tuning in to its emotional landscape, he questions the piece’s – and his own – identity. Show more
Benin guitarist and vocalist Lionel Loueke’s West African rhythms and jazz harmonies, a tribute to a grandma and Mica Levi’s cinematic piano music performed by Eliza McCarthy. Show more
Cowell and Mahler, performed by the San Francisco Symphony at the 2015 BBC Proms. Presented by John Shea. Show more
