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
Tuesday with Ian Skelly - Ian Bostridge, Dvorak's Rondo in G minor, the secret language of stamps
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Plus guest, the tenor Ian Bostridge. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Rimsky Korsakov’s use of fairy-tales and folklore, the idea of ‘otherness’ and the excitement of the exotic in his music Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The Van Kuijk Quartet and pianist Tom Poster perform sensuous Cesar Franck
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Recorded at Perth Concert Hall, young string quartets perform major French works. Show more
BBC orchestras in a concert performance of Act 1 of Wagner's Die Walkure, Mozart's Symphony No 36 in C, concertos by Britten and Bartok, and William Mathias's Symphony No 3 Show more
Tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Simon Lepper perform live, we hear from the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and Sean Rafferty speaks to Galician musician Carlos Nunez. Show more
A specially curated In Tune Mixtape with field recordings of Balinese Gamelan by David Attenborough and a sumptuous selection of lyrical favourites, as well as lesser-known gems. Show more
Simon Rattle conducts the LSO, beginning in central Europe with Bartok and Szymanowski, and ending in South and North America with Osvaldo Golijov, Stravinsky and Bernstein. Show more
How plants shape our thinking with a forester-turned writer, a botanist-turned-philosopher, a tree photographer with a science background and a memoirist. Show more
Poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett tries tries to join in the ritual of the Hunting of the Earl of Rone in Combe Martin, Devon, but is drawn to her own loss. Show more
It's that time of the year again when we ask the Late Junction presenters and producers to flick through the releases of the last year and pick their favourite album. Show more
Music from Finland's 2018 Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival. Presented by John Shea. Show more