Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listeners' requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Letters from the Truce, 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 the Arcangelo Corelli craze after the composer's death. Show more
Two of Norway's leading performers, pianist Christian Ihle Hadland and soprano Ann-Helen Moen, present Grieg's The Mountain Maid song cycle and Six German Lieder plus songs by Sibelius. Show more
The Czech Philharmonic with Schubert's Symphony No 3 and Strauss's Sinfonia Domestica conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. Plus, Mozart's 'Prague' Symphony conducted by Thomas Netopil. Show more
It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. Just like all the other unwelcome yuletide things, how did cheesy seasonal music come to be and what is its true value? Show more
New Generation Artists
Mozart's Piano Sonata in A and Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata
1 hour, 15 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Aleksey Semenenko plays Cesar Franck's glorious sonata, Elisabeth Brauss plays Mozart in Cheltenham and James Newby and Alessandro sing at the Hollywell Music Room in Oxford. Show more
Anne-Marie Duff and Greg Wise read poetry and prose on the theme of the sun, as a giver of life, a force of nature and an inspiration for worship, poetry and music. Show more
From the 2019 BBC Proms, Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic in excerpts from operas by Tchaikovsky and Smetana, and in Shostakovich's wartime Symphony No 8 in C minor. Show more
Philippa Gregory once thought Jane Eyre was a love story between Jane and Mr Rochester, but she doesn't read it that way now. Join Philippa as she writes a new end for the classic. Show more
From the 2019 BBC Proms, composer Jonny Greenwood joins Proms Youth Ensemble, BBC NOW, Daniel Pioro, Katherine Tinker and conductor Hugh Brunt to perform works by Greenwood and others. Show more
After a decade writing about music, Jennifer Lucy Allan surveys the defining moments in adventurous music of the decade and looks forward to the best to come in 2020. Show more
Leopold Mozart's Symphony in G and Missa Solemnis performed at the Tage Alter Musik festival in Regensburg, Germany, by Hofkapelle Munich. Catriona Young presents. Show more
