Petroc Trelawny presents breakfast and, as part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Thursday with Suzy Klein - New Year, New Music: Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Jennifer Pike
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Suzy Klein's guest is violinist Jennifer Pike. Show more
Donald Macleod delves into Felix Mendelssohn's popularity in London. Show more
Pianist and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mariam Batsashvili plays music by Busoni, Chopin and Liszt in the third of four recitals from the new Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Show more
Riccardo Zandonai's gripping opera Francesca da Rimini from La Scala, Milan, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from pianist Janina Fialkowska, and from violinist Hyeyoon Park with pianist Sholto Kynoch. Plus TS Eliot Prize nominated poet Richard Scott Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist, including a hymn from John Dowland, spiritual music from Java, and a setting for string quartet of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. Show more
Live from the Barbican Hall in London, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius's Symphony No 7 and Nielsen's Symphony No 4, 'The Inextinguishable'. Show more
Shahidha Bari, Josh Cohen and Sam Goodman explore the value of doing nothing. Show more
In 1819, John Keats wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language. Sasha Dugdale explores Ode to a Nightingale. Show more
Late Junction
Hindustani classical music and a song for insane times
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Anne Hilde presents ZM Dagar’s Hindustani classical music, a song for insane times by Kevin Ayers, and experiments in drone, tone and flow by avant-garde duo Black Spirituals. Show more
Jonathan Swain navigates us through a nautical night featuring Britten, Telemann and Gilson, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's 2012 Prom. Show more
