Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Thursday with Ian Skelly - Essential Classics Playlist, Easter, Dobrinka Tabakova
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. With guest this week, composer Dobrinka Tabakova. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the music, and what is known of the life, of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Today, the five printed collections that spread Biber’s name across Europe. Show more
Romanian cellist and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Andrei Ionita plays Schumann's Romances and Brahms' Cello Sonata No 1 for this most romantic of all instruments. Show more
It's our weekly opera matinee. Take the phone off the hook for the afternoon (or put it in airplane mode) and enjoy! This week the rarely heard Romeo and Juliet by Niccolo Vaccai. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, conversation and arts news. Christine Rice performs live in the studio, as does Valentina Lisitsa. We hear from Panos Karan too. Show more
Set sail with In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of nautical music from Vivaldi to bluegrass, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. Show more
BBC NOW and Kensho Watanabe perform a Borodin overture and Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony. New Generation Artist Thibaut Garcia is guitarist in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez Show more
Free Thinking
Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Re-telling Odysseus and Circe with Madeline Miller, the old-new folk world created by Zoe Gilbert and the half-world of The Gloaming with Kirsty Logan. Show more
Professor Fiona Stafford explores internationally loved lavender, used in Britain for over 2000 years, now more popular than ever with the British lavender industry blooming. Show more
Music to remember, console and celebrate with Verity Sharp, plus Radiohead for choir and the latest work by Vessel. Show more
Piano music as a response to hearing colour. Olivier Messiaen's works performed by Alberto Rosado. Catriona Young presents. Show more