Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, featuring a complete Bach cantata for Advent, plus our musical Advent Calendar and listeners' requests. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Gareth Malone, Warlock's Immortal Carouses, Nielsen's Journey to the Faroes
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod delves into the international successes of Arcangelo Corelli. Show more
Violinist Tobias Ringborg and pianist Marija Struckova perform Grieg's Third Violin Sonata alongside works by Peter Maxwell Davies and Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammer. Show more
Madrid's RTVE Symphony Orchestra play Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto, Christian Lindberg's Concerto for Trumpet and Trombone, and Shostakovich and Nielsen's Fifth Symphonies. Show more
Music by Telemann and Merula from the 4 Times Baroque ensemble in Cologne, plus festive early music by Bach and Vivaldi from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm. Show more
Schubert's emotionally harrowing winter journey performed by Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton. Show more
Hayley Atwell and Simon Callow read texts and poems related to the number seven including last words, deadly sins, veils, brides, brothers, and dwarfs. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Playing in the Dark: Neil Gaiman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Author Neil Gaiman reads from his best-selling books, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and special guests in music by Dukas, Gershwin, Sibelius, Sullivan, Herrmann, and Wagner. Show more
Ian Rankin first read William Golding's novel at school. Scenes from it have stayed with him ever since. Now he imagines what might happen to Ralph and Jack after the novel's end. Show more
Another chance to hear Angélique Kidjo's tribute to celebrated salsa songstress Celia Cruz at the 2019 BBC Proms. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch guides us through an immersive, late-night soundtrack, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. Show more
Frank Martin's medieval Christmas Oratorio. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more