Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show live from the Royal Albert Hall, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Liszt's Mazeppa, Marjory Kennedy Fraser, George Alagiah
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 the lives and music of Clara Schumann and her circle. Today, Clara and Johannes Brahms, whose friendship – and bickering – lasted over 40 years. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Boccherini, Ysaye and Prokofiev from the 2019 Cheltenham Music Festival
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Georgia Mann presents BBC New Generation Artists performing music by Boccherini, Ysaye and Prokofiev at the 2019 Cheltenham Music Festival. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Prom 61 repeat: Vienna Philharmonic and Andrés Orozco-Estrada
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Another chance to hear Prom 61: Andrés Orozco‐Estrada conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony and, with Leonidas Kavakos, Korngold's Violin Concerto. Show more
The Listening Service
Beethoven - Hero or Villain?
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom Service asks whether posterity's casting of Beethoven as a hero is a good thing and if it means we miss crucial things in the music of others, or even of Beethoven himself. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news, with live performance in the studio from tenor Ed Lyon, as well as Chineke! Mezzo Jamie Barton joins us too. Show more
What shall we do with a wayward Mixtape? Beethoven meddles with a popular patriotic tune of the day, and the Swedish Mozart makes an onstage hero of Jolly Jack Tar. Show more
Live at the BBC Proms. The NDR Radio Philharmonic, conducted by Andrew Manze, perform Beethoven's Symphony No 5 and Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks. Show more
Might explorations of gender in great art of the past help illuminate today's issues? Emma Smith considers ideas of transitioning or transcending the physical body in the arts. Show more
English folk singer Martin Simpson in session and a Road Trip from Cuba. Show more
Global beats and roots music from every corner of the world, including tracks from Orchestra Baobab (Senegal), Vasen (Sweden) and Lata Mangeshkar (India).
Jordi Savall and Youth Capella Reial de Catalunya in concert in Barcelona. John Shea presents. Show more