Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Sony Walkman, Piazzolla's Libertango, Gabriela Montero
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, the pianist Gabriela Montero. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on a special place that became central to Beach and her work as a composer. Show more
Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend from Saffron Hall in Essex presents Mark Simpson and friends, today performing Gershwin, Bernstein, Antheil, Copland and Simpson. Show more
The Rotterdam Philharmonic and the CBSO visit the Lucerne Summer Festival to perform two giants of the symphonic canon, plus Nicola Benedetti's Young Musican-winning Szymanowski. Show more
Instead of a byword for sloppy low standards and dilettantes, Tom Service wants you to think of amateurs as an essential and vital force in music for the last three centuries. Show more
Katie Derham presents live music from pianist Fumiya Koido, baritone Benson Wilson, and cellist Jan Vogler. Malian singer Rokia Traore also joins Katie. Show more
Walton's First Symphony, Schubert's The Shepherd on the Rock and MacMillan's The Gallant Weaver are just some of the delights that feature in this unpresented sequence of music. Show more
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov perform Krasa's Overture for Small Orchestra, Klein's Partita for Strings and Mahler's extraordinary Symphony No 9. Show more
Ian McMillan and guests explore writing about insects. Show more
Ian Sansom completes his series of imaginary correspondences with some of the world's great writers as he asks William Trevor if every silver lining must really have a cloud. Show more
'Feminine, joyous and tropical' Buenos Aires-based singer La Yegros brings explosive South American folk beats to the Music Planet studio in an exclusive live session. Show more
A joyous nonstop sonic trip round the globe, with South African jazz and heartbreaking English folk via Argentina electro-rock, sparkling Madagasi music and a stomping Danish polka Show more
The Suisse Romande Orchestra perform Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more
