Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Sally Phillips, Gershwin's Catfish Row, Kierkegaard's sock puppetry
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. With guest, actress and comedian Sally Phillips. Show more
Marriage. It's complicated... and how Shostakovich celebrated the birth of his daughter. And we find out: is Shostakovich a cat or a dog person? With presenter Donald Macleod. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces two late, great, Beethoven sonatas performed by Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger. Show more
The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra plays music ranging from Faure, Debussy and Ravel to Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein and Henri Dutilleux at the Philharmonie, Paris. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live music from the Ruisi Quartet and pianist Behzod Abduraimov joins us to perform in the studio.
In Tune's specially curated classical mixtape, including a familiar tune in an unfamiliar disguise. Show more
Joana Carneiro conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in John Adams's Naive and Sentimental Music. The BBC Symphony and Nora Fischer join them for Osvaldo Golijov's cantata, Oceana. Show more
Music Matters
Stephen Kovacevich, Thomas Ades and Howard Skempton
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom meets pianist Stephen Kovacevich, discusses Howard Skempton with Esther Cavett, editor of a new book on the composer, and talks to conductor and composer Thomas Ades. Show more
Writer Polly Coles considers Venetian artists who have engaged with their ancient home in a modern spirit, asking if it is possible to make something new in this museum city. Show more
Soweto Kinch presents Rachel Musson’s nine-piece band 'I Went This Way'. Show more
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performs Beethoven's Triple Concerto and a work by American violinist and composer Jessie Montgomery. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more