Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Liquid Air, Tchaikovsky's Pas de Deux, Sally Phillips
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. With guest, actress and comedian Sally Phillips. Show more
Presenter Donald Macleod joins Shostakovich in a country retreat the 'House for Composers’, and we hear his String Quartet No 2 and Symphony No 8, both written here. Show more
Ben Appl sings Schumann's eternal and bitter-sweet story of love in Dichterliebe while the Arod Quartet offers the genius and optimism of one of Haydn's final quartets, 'Sunrise'. Show more
Live from MediaCityUK, the BBC Philharmonic plays Wagner and James MacMillan, followed by Ravel's Concerto for the Left hand from the Radio France Philharmonic. Show more
An archive recording from Ripon Cathedral (first broadcast 6 May 2007). Show more
New Generation Artists
James Newby sings Fauré and Aleksey Semenenko plays Saint-Saëns
31 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
New Generation Artists: James Newby sings Fauré, violinist Aleksey Semenenko plays Saint-Saëns and former NGA Alec Frank-Gemmill plays Rossini on a period horn. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music and arts news, with the Elias String Quartet who join us in the studio to perform live, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale sing for us. Show more
An unpresented sequence of music, starting slowly and gradually gathering speed. Show more
Artist Lachlan Goudie presents a concert by BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Bramwell Tovey on the subject of green, featuring saxophonist Jess Gillam in a new John Harle piece. Show more
Free Thinking
Stanley Spencer, Domestic Servants, Surrogacy
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Authors Nicola Upson and Joanne Ramos on depicting a baby farm and Spencer's maidservant. New Generation Thinkers Gulzaar Barn and Ella Parry-Davies talk to presenter Naomi Paxton. Show more
Writer Polly Coles discusses Francis Bacon's painting Study for Chimpanzee in Venice's Guggenheim museum, considering ideas of flight, exile, discrimination and art. Show more
Nick Luscombe presents granular synth sounds from an Iranian-German duo, Scottish alt-pop from C Duncan and a reversioning of material from an archive of Appalachian chamber folk. Show more
Piano music played by recent Radio 3 New Generation Artist Beatrice Rana, including Sonatas by Clementi and Liszt, and Debussy's Pour le piano. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
