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 Ian Skelly: Saariaho's Graal Théâtre, Clare Balding
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, Donald considers the parlous state of the composer’s health. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
LSO St Luke's - Alice Sara Ott and Friends
Alice Sara Ott goes head to head with Francesco Tristano
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Alice Sara Ott goes head to head with Italian pianist-composer Francesco Tristano in music for two pianos by Ravel, Satie and Tristano himself. Show more
Afternoon Concert
BBC Symphony Orchestra: Yiu, Shostakovich and Saariaho
2 hours, 31 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Raymond Yiu's The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured, Shostakovich's Symphony No 1 and Kaija Saariaho's Graal theatre, based on the book by Jacques Roubaud. Show more
Why do we seem to love music from the day we're born? Are we born musical? Tom Service and experts reveal how babies interact with all kinds of music. Show more
Music and conversation, live from Broadcasting House, with Katie Derham, featuring the choir, echo, the Mithras Piano Trio and playwright Robin French. Show more
Mozart's 'dinner music' Divertimento, K270, meets King Creosote for tea in a Scottish cafe along with Debussy's evocation of a sunny morning in Spain, Le Matin d'un jour de fete. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Clara Schumann and Rebecca Clarke from St Jude's
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Violinist Jack Liebeck and pianist Katya Apekisheva mark the anniversaries of two female composers, Clara Schumann and Rebecca Clarke. Show more
Ian is joined by poets Ilya Kaminsky, Simon Armitage and Julia Copus. Show more
Five writers on the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely. Poet Lavinia Greenlaw contemplates the road ahead. The road ahead that is shrouded in darkness. Show more
Music Planet
Sofiane Saidi and Mazalda in session with Lopa Kothari
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Lopa Kothari presents a live session with Sofiane Saidi and Mazalda, and Mu Qian takes us on a Road Trip to Guizhou province of China.
Tonight we're Honolulu-bound with some classic Hawaiian slide guitar, Omar Souleyman takes us to Syria with love, punk-polka from Attwenger and Congolese rumba from M'bilia Bel.
Piano trios by Haydn, Smetana and Schubert. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
