Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Roddy Doyle, Garnish, Butterfly Lovers' Concerto
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, the novelist Roddy Doyle. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Igor Stravinsky, whose music is said to have ushered in the 20th century. Today, Stravinsky's early relationship with Rimsky-Korsakov. Show more
A well-loved fixture of musical life for six decades, the King's Singers embark on a west-bound journey including stopping-off points in Russia, Finland, France and Slough. Show more
The Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra performs music by Penderecki, Franck, Chaves, JS Bach and Beethoven. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, conversation and arts news with live music in the studio from pianist Martin James Bartlett. Cellist Joy Lisney joins us too. Show more
An unpresented mix of classical music that shimmers, gleams and glints. Show more
Petroc Trelawny presents the shortlists and winners of 21 categories in this year's International Opera Awards, recorded last Monday at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. Show more
Kate Molleson talks to conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. Also music fan clubs. Folk singer Josephine Foster. And the book 'Music and Modernity among First peoples of North America'. Show more
From Turin, writer Ken Hollings offers an overview of Friedrich Nietzsche as the restless traveller dissatisfied with the complacency of the world around him. Show more
Soweto Kinch presents Belgian multi-instrumentalist Esinam in concert. Show more
A concert of early music from Katowice in Poland. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more