Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Bernstein conducts Beethoven in Berlin, Tim McInnerny, Saint-Saëns's Egyptian Piano Concerto
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein, plus guest Tim McInnerny. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the maestro of the Cancan and much more besides, Jacques Offenbach. Today, the opera he left unfinished on his death. Show more
Highlights of a concert given last year by the winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2017 Audience Prize, Louise Alder Show more
Tom McKinney concludes a week of performances from the BBC Philharmonic. Today's programme includes music by Knussen, Ariosi, Berg, Dvorak, McKonkey, Dove and Bliss. Show more
The Listening Service
Better than background music?
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
If incidental music is just another theatrical prop, why have so many great composers, from Mozart to Birtwistle, written scores for the theatre? Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a special episode of In Tune, live from the Debating Hall at the University of Glasgow, with guests including the Dunedin Consort and Concerto Caledonia. Show more
Celebrate the start of summer with a specially curated mix of music for the longest day of the year. Show more
Ahead of tomorrow evening's final of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019, another chance to hear a previous winner from 2015 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. Show more
Ian and guests Tessa Hadley, Brian Bilston and Jesse Schwenk attempt to celebrate the often overlooked word 'nice'. Show more
Glasgow's hardman - Alistair Fraser regales an audience at York Festival of Ideas with some of the highlights and lowlights of a story perhaps coming to an end. Show more
Music Planet
Heart of the Dragon Ensemble in session with Kathryn Tickell
1 hour, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
A specially recorded session of Chinese traditional music from Heart of the Dragon Ensemble. With Kathryn Tickell. Show more
Celebrating the human voice with music from Tashi Lhunpo Monks, Bulgarian Voices Angelite and Mahotella Queens. Show more
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra plays Mahler's Symphony No 2. Catriona Young presents. Show more