Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring our musical Advent Calendar and an American Portrait. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Tom Holland, Lily Lawrie’s Living Room, Strozzi's Che si puo fare
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Donald Macleod assesses Janáček’s compulsive need for his muse of later years, Kamila Stösslova, with excerpts from Kat’a Kabanova and the Diary of One Who Disappeared. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Belfast International Arts Festival 2019 - Janáček and Shostakovich
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
The Albion Quartet and British pianist Charles Owen perform Janáček and Shostakovich at the Belfast International Arts Festival 2019. Presented by John Toal. Show more
Sex and death in Venice - plus the Dance of the Hours for light relief. Canny marketing too - the name for Ponchielli's La Gioconda is borrowed from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news, with live performance in the studio from Castalian Quartet and Boxwood & Brass, plus Sean talks to Robert Hollingworth. Show more
A song of madness and the most genial of Dvorak in tonight's In Tune Mixtape. Show more
Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and Britten Sinfonia Leader Thomas Gould join forces for a vividly contrasting programme of chamber music from Bach to the 21st century. Show more
Free Thinking
The shadow of empire and colonialism
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Historian William Dalrymple, Wasafiri editor Susheila Nasta and novelist Romesh Gunesekera join Rana Mitter to talk about the East India company, Ceylon and writing. Show more
The Way I See It
Madeleine Thien on Vija Celmins’s Bikini
15 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Booker-nominated, Chinese-Canadian author Madeleine Thien chooses a work by Latvian-Amercian artist Vija Celmins. Show more
A magical sonic journey conjured from the BBC music archives. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
Elizabeth Alker with her pick of the latest new releases and previews of genre-defying music. Show more
Federico Mompou's piano masterpiece Música callada. Presented by John Shea. Show more