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: Pook's How Sweet the Moonlight, Sally Phillips, William Dunbar's Thistle
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. With guest, actress and comedian Sally Phillips. Show more
Donald Macleod meets the Shostakovich family at a time when they were wartime evacuees and we hear about the symphony that was almost lost in a train toilet. Show more
Germany's award-winning Schumann Quartet, featuring three Schumann brothers, perform a quartet by the teenage Schubert and Bartok's String Quartet No 1 inspired by unrequited love. Show more
Concerts from the BBC performing groups and orchestras from across the world. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music and arts news. Live music comes from baritone Jacques Imbrailo and Alisdair Hogarth. Wayne Marshall and Stewart Goodyear join us too. Show more
Supercharge your revision with a sequence of classical, alternative and world music perfect to listen to while studying. Show more
Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia continue their acclaimed Beethoven Symphony Cycle with Nos 7 and 8, and perform Gerald Barry's new Viola Concerto with Lawrence Power. Show more
Naomi Wolf discusses her book Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love with presenter Matthew Sweet. Show more
Beginning in the medieval Jewish cemetery on the Lido, Polly discusses how the island geography of Venice has allowed segregated and separate communities to evolve. Show more
Nick Luscombe pulls a rare Japanese ambient record out of the bag. Sound art that reflects on the spirituality of the Mediterranean Sea and a 30-year-old indie classic reversioned. Show more
A chance to hear Andre Previn conducting the Oslo Philharmonic in Mahler's musical foreshadowing of death, recorded in 2003. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
