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 Ian Skelly: Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Whitacre's Water Night
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Percy Grainger's enthusiasm for folksong collecting, a glorious escape from starchy drawing rooms and concert halls. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
LSO St Luke's - Beethoven and Tippett: Peter Donohoe
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
In the second concert of Beethoven and Tippett from LSO St Luke's in London, pianist Peter Donohoe plays Tippett's First and Second Sonatas, and Beethoven's Sonata in A, Op 101. Show more
The BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1 and Paul Ben-Haim's Symphony No 1, completed in 1940. Show more
From the Chapel of Rugby School (recorded 23rd April). Show more
New Generation Artists
Mozart and Bellini from the Van Kuijk Quartet and Alessandro Fisher
31 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Alessandro Fisher sings Schubert and Bellini, and the Van Kuijk play a joyful divertimento by Mozart. Show more
In Tune
Claire Martin, Joe Stligoe and Andrew Cottee, Jules Maxwell, Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by Claire Martin, Joe Stilgoe & Andrew Cottee, and pianists Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman. He also talks to composer Jules Maxwell. Show more
Glide across the Steppe in a sleigh, waltz with Strauss and Chopin, and tango with Stravinsky. Show more
Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO perform Shostakovich's epic Symphony No 11, 'The Year 1905'. Peter Donohoe is the soloist in John Foulds's strange piano concerto, Dynamic Triptych. Show more
Free Thinking
The wealth gap, #MeToo and Edith Wharton
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Laurence Scott and Alice Kelly re-read Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence. First published in 1920, it depicts new money in 1870s New York and limited choices for women. Show more
The Way I See It
Orhan Pamuk on Taglioni's Jewel Casket by Joseph Cornell
14 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
A radiophonic art exhibition in which the world's most creative minds choose a favourite work from New York's MoMA. Orhan Pamuk on Taglioni's Jewel Casket by Joseph Cornell. Show more
An adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Clarinet and horn trios performed at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid. John Shea presents. Show more