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: Deborah Meaden, Leiston Abbey, Debussy's Clair de lune
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Donald Macleod examines the most hectic year of Prokofiev’s life, where he faced uncertainties about his family and his financial future. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
St Magnus International Festival: Maxwell Quartet
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Scotland's award-winning Maxwell Quartet combine contemporary, folk and Renaissance works at St Magnus Cathedral. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet starring Carlos Alvarez and Diana Damrau
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Penny Gore introduces Ambroise Thomas's spectacular Hamlet in five acts, with a performance given in March 2019 at Barcelona's Art Gran Teatre del Liceu. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performance from the Lodestar Trio. Baritone Dominic Sedgwick and soprano Charlotte Shaw sing for us too. Show more
Amina Alaoui sings fado, there's tragic music from Verdi, and upbeat music from Bach. Gesualdo provides darkness, Fanny Mendelssohn joy and Eric Coates the bustle of 1930s London. Show more
Jonathan Cohen directs Arcangelo in Handel's little-known masterpiece, the Brockes-Passion, his dramatic oratorio depicting Christ's life, from the Last Supper to the Crucifixion. Show more
As the British Museum opens an exhibition on orientalism Inspired by the East, Matthew Sweet's guests include Tom Holland, critic Fatima Bhutto, Ziauddin Sardar & Inci Eviner. Show more
New Generation Thinker Seb Falk explores, with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas, the trilingual lawyer poet whose response to political upheaval has lessons for our times. Show more
A magical sonic journey conjured from the BBC music archives. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd joins Elizabeth Alker to share some tracks and talk about his new album. Show more
Opening concert from 2018's festival with piano music by Tchaikovsky, Enescu and Ravel. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more