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: Henry Burstow: Folk Song Dictionary, Deborah Meaden, Brahms's Sextet No 2
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Donald Macleod looks at how America influenced Prokofiev – and if the composer’s American dream ever died. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
St Magnus International Festival. Christian Wilson and Tom Poulson
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sacred works by Bach, Messiaen, Damase and Weir from St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall performed by Christian Wilson, organist of HM Chapels Royal and virtuoso trumpeter Tom Poulson. Show more
Mariss Jansons conducts Bruckner's Mass in F minor with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and Diana Damrau joins them for Strauss's Four Last Songs. Show more
The Listening Service
Prog Rock - apotheosis or nadir?
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service looks at Progressive Rock, to find out whether it was an apotheosis of rock music, or a folly of over-reaching naivety. He consults keyboard legend Rick Wakeman. Show more
Katie Derham and France Musique’s Clément Rochefort present performances by some of the world’s finest young musicians in a special episode of In Tune. Show more
Are you sitting comfortably? The In Tune Mixtape will read you a story of Lady Wang and the wondrous machine. Show more
Thomas Søndergård opens the RSNO season with a romantic feast featuring Karen Cargill performing Berg's lush Seven Early Songs, plus Mahler’s Symphony No 1 and Strauss’s Don Juan. Show more
Ian McMillan presents The Verb from Hull with Stuart Maconie, Vicky Foster and other guests taking part in the Contains Strong Language Festival. Show more
New Generation Thinker Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence. Recorded with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan explores the idea of voice as contagion with author Kristen Gallerneaux, tracing how the voice has haunted our technologies since the dawn of recorded sound. Show more
Mozart's farcical, philosophical and tragi-comical opera performed from Lugano in Switzerland. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
