Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show and in the lead-up to Valentine’s Day, Petroc introduces a daily musical love affair. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Monday with Suzy Klein - Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, Ben Schott, Carnival of Venice
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Suzy Klein's guest is the writer Ben Schott. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Max Bruch’s violin works. Today his best known work, the first violin concerto. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Piano gems old and new from François-Frédéric Guy
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Pianist François-Fréderic Guy plays Brahms's Piano Pieces Op 119, Tristan Murail's Cailloux dans l'eau, and a selection of pieces by Debussy at London's Wigmore Hall. Show more
British choral music from the BBC Singers followed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande and Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D with soloist James Ehnes Show more
In Tune
Howard Shelley, Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, David Bintley
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, conversation and arts news. Howard Shelley performs live in the studio, as do Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis and Seckou Keita. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Our Classical Century - Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
A non-stop half-hour sequence of music inspired by Shostakovich's Symphony No.7, the 'Leningrad' - one of the pieces featured this week in Our Classical Century. Show more
Jun Markl conducts the BBC NOW in Ravel's Bolero with a fiesta of Spanish and Spanish-influenced music, including Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with pianist Angela Hewitt. Show more
Tom interviews soprano Emma Kirkby. Also, the impact of Brexit on musicians. Also, music for nuns in Renaissance convents. And how string quartets replace departing members. Show more
Sarah Churchwell celebrates various leading men of the silver screen from the 1930s and 1940s. First off is Clark Gable, whose 'virility was inescapable'. Show more
Kit Downes and Enemy in concert presented by Soweto Kinch. Show more
The 2016 BBC Proms including Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor and Vaughan Williams's choral masterpiece, Toward the Unknown Region. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more