Georgia Mann 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 - Lawnmowers, Dobrinka Tabakova, Sibelius - Lemminkainen's Return
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 little is known of the life, of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Today, the focus is on Biber’s magnificent Salzburg Mass. Show more
Eqyptian soprano and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Fatma Said joins pianist Joseph Middleton and sings love songs of the German Romantics. Show more
Concluding a week of great performances by the BBC Philharmonic. Today's concert features music by Elgar (Sevillana and Cockaigne Overture) and Walton (Viola Concerto). Show more
As part of the Free Thinking festival, Katie Derham hosts a special programme with music by Kathryn Tickell, the Consone Quartet, Louis Schwizgebel, Gesualdo Six, and Palisander. Show more
In Tune's specially curated play list, a half-hour journey through a kaleidoscope of feelings and moods portrayed in music, including some favourites and some unknown gems. Show more
Bruckner's expansive and, in his own words, cheeky, Sixth Symphony, live from Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, performed by Royal Northern Sinfonia under Thomas Zehetmair. Show more
Free Thinking
Feelings, and feelings, and feelings
59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Historian of emotions Professor Thomas Dixon explains how looking to the past can help us understand our feelings in the present. Matthew Sweet hosts at Sage Gateshead. Show more
Kathryn Tickell from Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead with live music from Olcay Bayir, Kadialy Kouyate and The Young Uns. Show more
A mix of bittersweet music from across the globe with music from Ana Moura, Ebo Taylor, Shafqat Ali Khan, Manu Chao, Boubacar Traore, and the Mellstock Band.
Pavel Haas Quartet and La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Basle, in a concert from spring 2018. With Catriona Young. Show more