Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Elisabeth Lutyens, Rachel Riley, Chopin's Nocturne in E flat major
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, how his profound love of the natural world seeped into almost everything he wrote. Show more
Spotlight on the South West. Settings of Petrarch by Liszt and Tchaikovsky's sunniest sextet, Souvenir de Florence, performed at the 2019 Budleigh Music Festival. Show more
Afternoon Concert
BBC National Orchestra of Wales: LIVE from Hoddinott Hall
2 hours, 31 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall, the UK Premieres of Judith Weir's Oboe Concerto and a new suite from Wagner’s opera Parsifal under the baton of its arranger, Andrew Gourlay. Show more
From nocturnes and nightmares to dreams and dances, music loves the night. Tom is joined by experts to help him discover the music and sounds found after the sun sets. Show more
A lively mix of music and arts news with live performance in the studio with violinist Emily Sun. The pianist Ivana Gavric joins us and we speak to composer Gerard McBurney. Show more
In Tune’s specially curated playlist, book-ended by Bach and including Martha Argerich playing Liszt and Matthias Goerne singing Schumann. Show more
Vladimir Jurowski conducts Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique' Symphony and Knussen's Scriabin settings for chamber orchestra, with Julia Fischer as soloist in Britten's Violin Concerto. Show more
Ian McMillan is joined by Simon Armitage and other poets live from the Contains Strong Language Festival in Hull. Show more
Author Philip Hoare transcends the elements and talks about being shaped and reshaped by the sea. Show more
Kathryn Tickell presents a tribute to Mexican Cumbia legend Celso Pina and Amanda Kauranne takes us on a Road Trip to Finland. Show more
Global beats and roots from every corner of the world, including an Albanian Lullaby, John Holt dreaming of Ali Baba, Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, and Violeta Parra. Show more
Vaughan Williams's Oboe Concerto in A minor and Bizet's Carmen Suite recorded in Zurich. Catriona Young presents. Show more