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: Lemn Sissay, Bainton's And I Saw a New Heaven, Lorenzo and Maharajah
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 music and life of Henry Purcell. Today, a whistlestop trip through the scanty facts of the composer’s biography. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, baritone Benjamin Appl and fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout perform German Romantic songs by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Zelter and Loewe. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Mahler and Prokofiev from Seoul's KBS Symphony Orchestra
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The KBS Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler's Symphony No 9 and, with Stefan Jackiw, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2. Plus an unseasonal piece by Scottish composer Thea Musgrave. Show more
Concerto Köln performs concertos by the Baroque masters from Amsterdam's legendary Royal Concertgebouw. Show more
In Tune
London Mozart Players, Jan Latham-Koenig, Stephen Waarts and Gabriele Carcano
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Katie Derham with live music from members of the London Mozart Players. Violinist Stephen Waarts also plays live, and conductor Jan Latham-Koenig tells Katie about a new project. Show more
This mixtape explores the extremes of emotion generated by music, from fiery passion to reflective contemplation. Show more
Simon Rattle conducts Olivier Messiaen's epic Éclairs sur l'au-delà... (Lightning Over the Beyond...), a visionary evocation of 'resurrection, eternity and the other life.’ Show more
New works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and Martinu in Leeds. Show more
British Pakistani poet Imtiaz Dharker regards the liver as the true seat of our feelings. Show more
Soweto Kinch with US drummer Tom Rainey’s Obbligato in concert, including Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones) and Drew Gress (bass). Show more
The Swedish Radio Choir with pieces by Sven-David Sandstrőm alongside motets by his revered Bach. With John Shea. Show more