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: Rachel Riley, Lord Berners
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Gustav Mahler. Today, Mahler’s ambivalent relationship to religion. Show more
Spotlight on the South West. Schubert's late Quintet in C, played by 12 Ensemble at the Budleigh Music Festival. Show more
Afternoon Concert
BBC National Orchestra of Wales: St Davids Cathedral Festival
1 hour, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Poulenc's Organ Concerto, Mathias's Threnos and Saint‐Saëns's mighty Symphony No 3 from the St Davids Cathedral Festival with organist David Briggs. Conducted by Daniel Blendulf. Show more
An archive recording from Wells Cathedral (first broadcast 19 March 2014). Show more
Annelien Van Wauwe plays Debussy 's Clarinet Rhapsody together with a rhapsody by Manfred Trojahn. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performance by celebrated soprano Joyce DiDonato, and we welcome the pianist Daniel Kharitonov too. Show more
Two's company in the In Tune Mixtape, with pairs of pianos, oboes and opera characters, charting an A to Z of composers from John Adams to Jan Zelenka. Show more
David Briggs puts the spectacular new organ at Llandaff Cathedral through its paces, featuring favourites from the French repertoire and a full-length improvised organ symphony. Show more
Comedian Sofie Hagen, novelist Héctor Abad, journalist Isabel Hardman, John O'Shea & Dr Colette Hirsch, who are behind a new exhibition about anxiety, join Shahidha Bari. Show more
Writer Wendy Erskine takes us through doorways that open up portals into other worlds, in art, literature and life. Show more
Max Reinhardt with some blazing free-improv from Toronto, and Laurie Anderson narrates with weightless solemnity from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Show more
A concert from 2018's Thun Castle Concerts on the lakeshore with violinist Malin Broman, pianist Teo Gheorghiu and chamber orchestra Musica Vitae. With Catriona Young. Show more