Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Clare Balding, Schindler's List, Haydn's Razor Quartet
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music presented by Ian Skelly. Ian's guest this week is broadcaster and writer Clare Balding. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Fryderyk Chopin, often referred to as 'the poet of the piano'. Today, Chopin through the eyes of his most illustrious contemporaries. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
LSO St Luke's - Alice Sara Ott and Friends
Alice Sara Ott performs Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Alice Sara Ott assembles friends, all rising stars, to perform Messiaen's ethereal and haunting Quartet for the End of Time, a landmark of 20th-century chamber music. Show more
An opera buffa in the Mozartian mould, this tale of who should (or shouldn't) marry whom is a riot of fun and Cimarosa's only work still regularly performed. Show more
Live music and conversation, with Katie Derham. Guests today include Lord Robert Winston, violinist Joo Yeon Sir, and The Brother Brothers. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist including music by Jonny Greenwood, Nino Rota and Vivaldi. Show more
Harry Bicket directs the The English Concert in repertoire including Handel, Corelli and Vivaldi, written for the music-loving Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany. Show more
Free Thinking
Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Amitav Ghosh on linking refugees, climate change, Venice & Bengali forests in his fiction. New Generation Thinker Islam Issa on Epstein's Lucifer sculpture. Rana Mitter presents. Show more
Five writers consider the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or activity closely. Rachel Cooke focuses on mastication and digestion, which means the business of people eating. Show more
Late Junction
Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Lafawndah and Valentina Magaletti in session
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Two duos come together to make new music for Late Junction’s collaboration session. Plus slow-motion glitch jazz and music inspired by Hungarian architecture. With Nick Luscombe. Show more
The Rotterdam Philharmonic celebrates its 100th anniversary with Bruckner's Symphony No 4 and Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2 at the 2018 BBC Proms. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
