Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, with a complete Bach cantata for Advent. Also featuring our last musical Advent Calendar and listeners' requests. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium, A Spotless Rose, Gareth Malone
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 Arcangelo Corelli’s relationships with the nobility and crowned heads. Show more
Norway's long-standing Vertavo Quartet perform works by Grieg and Smetana as part of the Grieg celebrations at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Show more
BBC Concert Orchestra with a festive concert at Snape Maltings, featuring Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet alongside Delius and Humperdinck, plus more Christmas music from Sweden. Show more
Horatio Clare's immersive Slow Radio Sound Walk on Greenland's Arctic Circle Trail. Bringing to life the stark beauty of the Arctic tundra and exploring how Greenland came to be. Show more
The Ukrainian violinist Aleksey Semenenko dazzles in Ravel's Tzigane, the guitarist Thibaut Garcia explores an Anatolia folk song and Misha Mullov-Abbado riffs on Topsy. Show more
Poetry, prose and music, with readings by Ewan Bailey and Clare Perkins. Including Holst, Orff and John Adams, plus texts by Robert Browning, Anne Bronte and Vera Brittain. Show more
Another chance to hear the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Bernard Haitink, and pianist Emanuel Ax perform Beethoven and Bruckner at the 2019 BBC Proms. Show more
Bernardine Evaristo loathed Woolf's To the Lighthouse as a teenager. But when she read Mrs Dalloway a few years ago, she savoured every word. Today, she continues the story. Show more
From the 2019 BBC Proms, music to calm the mind and nourish the soul, with radiant choral sounds and heavenly strings from Tenebrae and 12 Ensemble plus guest soloists. Show more
An adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra performs music by Britten, Lin Zhao, Xiaogang Ye and Stravinsky. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more
