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: Drake's Drum by Stanford, Colin Matthews's Pluto, Kirsty Wark
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music presented by Suzy Klein. Our guest this week is presenter, journalist and novelist Kirsty Wark. Show more
Donald Macleod measures the significance of Carl Nielsen's partnership with his sculptor wife, Anne-Marie Brodersen. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Czech Roots: Meccore String Quartet
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
From LSO St Luke's in London, the Meccore String Quartet perform the urgently expressive first string quartets of Janacek and Smetana. Show more
Susanna Mälkki conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23, with Yeol Eum Son, and Strauss's Metamorphosen. Plus a work from 2019's New Music Biennial. Show more
Live from Southwark Cathedral, marking the retirement of its director of music, Peter Wright. Show more
New Generation Artists
Catriona Morison, Ashley Riches and the Aris Quartett
31 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison sings Purcell's Sweeter than Roses, the Aris Quartett perform Bach and bass-baritone Ashley Riches sings Brahms's Four Serious Songs. Show more
Live music and conversation with Sean Rafferty, including performances by The Heath Quartet, and flautist Adam Walker with guitarist Sean Shibe. Show more
In Tune’s specially curated mixtape including Jonathan Dove's setting of Tennyson's Ring Out, Wild Bells plus music by Glinka, Gottschalk, Albinoni, Schoenberg and JS Bach. Show more
Pupils, alumni and special guests fill Manchester's Bridgewater Hall to perform Mahler's Symphony No 8 in celebration of Chetham's School of Music's 50th anniversary year. Show more
Free Thinking
Caine Prize, Ivo van Hove, Female desire
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Ivo van Hove on staging Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead at MIF, Lisa Taddeo on three women's sex lives and Shahidha Bari meets the 2019 Caine Prize-winner for African Writing. Show more
Author James Rebanks, the Lake District shepherd, talks about Malcolm's place, Taigh na Trathad (The Beach house) in Uig on the Isle of Lewis. Show more
Polish jazz collides with choral collage, and Moroccan funk meets mesmeric No Wave, as Verity conducts an orchestra of the unexpected. Show more
Shostakovich's embattled Symphony No 4 is set alongside Bernstein's intensely lyrical Serenade in this concert by Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Show more
