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: Claire Skinner, Brahms's British premiere, Debussy's Cathedrale engloutie
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod traces Malcolm Arnold’s interest in being a composer for the people. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Chamber Music Concerts from the Netherlands - Lekeu and Strauss
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sarah Walker continues a week of chamber music highlights from the Netherlands. Today, Guillaume Lekeu's Molto adagio sempre cantante doloroso and Richard Strauss's Piano Quartet. Show more
From the 2018 Janáček Brno festival, Janacek's tragic opera depicts a woman desperate for love but constrained by society, a weak husband, and the mother-in-law from hell. Show more
In Tune
Richard Hosford, Simon Crawford-Phillips and Marie Lloyd, David Briggs, Jaga Klimaszewska
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty is joined by Nash Ensemble clarinettist Richard Hosford, organist David Briggs and violinist Jaga Klimaszewska. Show more
Musetta's mischief and a 'cauld blast' in tonight's In Tune Mixtape, as well as a bit of Baroque rigour from Handel and Bach to offset Monteverdi's Renaissance spontaneity, Show more
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov perform Strauss's music inspired by Don Quixote, a rarity from a Romanian composer and a suite of ballet music by Prokofiev. Show more
Naomi Paxton assembles a squad of researchers to talk about dating, relationships and what how we fall in love says about us, from the National Archives to London's gay bars. Show more
Film critic Clarisse Loughrey looks at the cinema of the Weimar Republic.
A magical sonic journey conjured from the BBC music archives. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
Marking the centenary of the Weimar Republic and the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Unclassified shines a spotlight on music making in Berlin in 2019. Show more
Catriona Young presents a concert by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra including Shostakovich's 'Leningrad' Symphony. Show more
