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: Celia Imrie, Mary and Frances, Strauss's Die Fledermaus
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Verdi's youth and early musical experiences in Busetto, his marriage to Margherita Barezzi, and the early operas he produced for Milan that made his name. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, the Kuss Quartet play Beethoven's String Quartet No 15 in A minor, Op 132, and the UK premiere of Freizeit by German composer Enno Poppe. Show more
Two concerts by the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin in works by Sibelius, Strauss, Bach and Haydn. Show more
The innovative early music ensemble L'Arpeggiata join Tom Service to perform live in the studio. Show more
In Tune’s specially curated mixtape featuring music with a holiday feel from a Russian fair to a Latin fiesta via a Maypole dance, boat trip, children playing and walking the dog. Show more
Vasily Petrenko and the RLPO with a night of Russian music from Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Khachaturian. Show more
Music Matters
Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom meets conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Also, how much do conductors earn? Plus, composer Kaija Saariaho on her piece, a collaboration with dance and painting, inspired by TS Eliot. Show more
Fiona Stafford explores ‘The Strange, Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe’, looking at what Crusoe the narrator was most surprised by, and the stranger aspects of the book Show more
Soweto Kinch presents Trish Clowes’s band My Iris. Show more
BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the 2016 Proms conducted by Thomas Sondergard. John Shea presents. Show more