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
Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Ben Schott, Elgar's Cockaigne Overture
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Suzy Klein's guest is writer Ben Schott. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Max Bruch’s violin works. Today his second violin concerto, created for a charismatic violinist with a dazzling technique. Show more
The Nash Ensemble, Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe perform works by Beethoven and Bliss. Highlights from the 2017 Cheltenham Music Festival introduced by Fiona Talkington. Show more
Major works by Brahms and Schumann, including the latter's Cello Concerto in A minor with soloist Steven Isserlis, followed by a mass setting by Julian Anderson. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, conversation and arts news. Stile Antico perform live in the studio, and we hear from violinist SongHa Choi and cellist Dora Kokas. Show more
Ivor Cutler's small paean to tea and silence, a pianistic appreciation of the little things with Hauschka, and Sun Ra's cosmic journey to find Love in Outer Space. Show more
As The Orgelbüchlein Project nears its completion, organist William Whitehead joins the BBC Singers in a concert at St Peter's Eaton Square in London. Show more
The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about black power and prejudice, the politics of blackface, and the Oscars as his film BlacKkKlansman is nominated for six Academy Awards. Show more
Sarah Churchwell celebrates various leading men of the silver screen from the 1930s and 1940s. This time it's Frederic March, with his classic 'depth and versatility'. Show more
Music in every hue, tint, tone and shade. A colour wheel of expressive experimentalism. Composers painting pictures for your ears include Julius Eastman and Noriko Hisada. Show more
Arctic Light and the Hamburg Girls' Choir perform contemporary vocal music from Sweden. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more