Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Friday with Ian Skelly - Michael Morpurgo, Handel's Harmonious Blacksmith, The Blondin Donkey
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Presented by Ian Skelly with guest Michael Morpurgo. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of German early Baroque master Heinrich Schutz. The composer attempts to retire – and eventually bids farewell with his Schwanengesang. Show more
Andrew McGregor presents highlights from the Oxford Lieder Festival 2018, a grand tour of European song, including Camilla Tilling in Stenhammer and Schubert & Co. on gondolas. Show more
Highlights from the Lucerne Festival including Haydn's Symphony No 83, Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, Beethoven's Mass in C, plus Schumann, Rachmaninov and Bernstein. Show more
Alexandra Gilbreath and Neil Pearson explore different worlds with readings of texts by Burnside, Coleridge and Vahni Capildeo and music by Chopin, MacMillan, Mussorgsky and Satie. Show more
New Generation Artists
Andrei Ionita performs Kashperova's Cello Sonata No 1
1 hour, 14 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
New Generation Artist Andrei Ionita gives the first broadcast performance of Leokadiya Kashperova's Cello Sonata No 1. Show more
Proms 2018 Repeats
Prom 68 repeat: Berlin Philharmonic, Kirill Petrenko, Beethoven, Strauss
1 hour, 59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Another chance to hear Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra play Beethoven and Strauss at the Royal Albert Hall in London Show more
New Generation Artists
Calidore Quartet performs Mendelssohn's String Quartet No 6
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3The Calidore Quartet performs Mendelssohn's String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80, written in the aftermath of the death of his beloved sister Fanny. Show more
The Glory of Polyphony
Tomkins, Cardoso and the New World
34 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Peter Phillips explores later developments in Renaissance choral music, focusing on the music of Thomas Tomkins in England, Manuel Cardoso in Portugal and Juan Padilla in Mexico. Show more
Music Planet
Sir David Attenborough Mixtape plus concert sets from WOMEX 2018 with Lopa Kothari
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Sir David Attenborough's Mixtape plus concert sets from WOMEX 2018 with Lopa Kothari Show more
Performances from the 2016 International Wratislavia Cantans Festival including music by Shostakovich and Gorecki. Catriona Young presents. Show more
