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: The Raggle Taggle Gypsies, Lemn Sissay, Beethoven's Rondino for wind octet
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's focus is on a single year, 1680, in which Purcell emerged as one of the greatest contrapuntists of his time. Show more
Sarah Walker presents highlights from the 2019 Schwetzingen Festival. Haydn, Beethoven and Klein performed by the Jerusalem Quartet, Piotr Anderszewski and the Marvin Trio. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Sibelius, Grieg and Beethoven from Seoul's KBS Symphony Orchestra
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
The KBS SO perform Sibelius's The Swan of Tuonela, Grieg's Piano Concerto and Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D. Plus, Nicholas Daniel plays a miniature for oboe by Thea Musgrave. Show more
Katie Derham is joined by the St Lawrence String Quartet, and Syrian qanun player Maya Youssef with guitarist Craig Ogden. Show more
Glory be! Handel opens the In Tune Mixtape in understated style, while Mozart's muse is faced with a stream of mockery. Show more
The Colin Currie Group and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, perform Sofia Gubaidulina's percussion concerto and excerpts from Grieg's Peer Gynt. Show more
Free Thinking
Tolerance, censorship and free speech
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Susan Neiman on lessons from German and US history, Ursula Owen's journey from Virago to Index on Censorship and Christopher Hampton's stage version of Youth Without God. Show more
Poet Abi Curtis considers how our eyes both connect us to and alienate us from the world. Show more
Fiona Talkington leads you on another reliably unpredictable late-night sonic journey. Featured artists include Pavel Kolesnikov, Tom Robinson, and The Ex. Show more
A concert given in Madrid by the Stadler Quartet, featuring Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' quartet and Beethoven's late String Quartet No 15, Op.132. With John Shea. Show more