Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring our musical Advent Calendar and listener requests. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Friday with Ian Skelly - Nadia Boulanger, Dan Snow, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Ian's guest is historian Dan Snow. Show more
Focusing on 1826, a year in the life of Schubert, Donald Macleod hears his monumental final string quartet, plus his setting of Goethe's poignant poem, None but the Lonely Heart. Show more
The Schwarzenberg Schubertiade 2018. John Shea concludes his week of concerts from this west Austrian festival with a programme of music by Schubert, Brahms and Schumann. Show more
Live from Maida Vale Studios, the young Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Linberg, Kabalevsky and Bartok. Presented by Natasha Riordan Show more
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from the Choir of New College Oxford and the Novus String Quartet. Plus a joint interview with choral legends John Rutter and Bob Chilcott. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: a musical adventure for a cold day to catch some Bonnetta, Bernstein and Borodin before witnessing the Moonlight in Vermont. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
BBC Philharmonic, Leonard Elschenbroich, Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto No 1
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Ben Gernon, perform symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven. They are joined by Leonard Elschenbroich for Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto No 1. Show more
The language of sleeplessness with Al Kennedy, Amy Liptrot, Marina Benjamin and Bridget Minamore. Show more
Author Preti Taneja mediates on the awe-inspiring power of a Sufi devotional song by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Yaad-E-Nabi Ka Gulshan Mekha. Show more
Korean gayageum player Kyungso Park in session with Lopa Kothari plus a Road Trip exploring the Narcocorridos or ‘drug ballads’ of Mexico. Show more
The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra plays works by Estonian composers in a concert celebrating the centenary of the Republic of Estonia. Presented by John Shea. Show more