Georgia Mann 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 Suzy Klein: Buxton Opera House, Harriet Walter
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Donald Macleod tells the story of Tchaikovsky's final months, including the puzzle of his death, just days after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Brahms's Clarinet Quintet and Heine Lieder at St George's Bristol
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Brahms's Clarinet Quintet and Heine songs performed by clarinettist Julian Bliss and the Carducci Quartet, and tenor Mark Padmore with pianist Julius Drake at St George's Bristol. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Viennese Connections - Ligeti, Wagner, Berg and Schubert
2 hours, 31 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Tom McKinney rounds up his New Year week of music making from Vienna with a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic of Ligeti, Wagner and Berg, and a Mass by Schubert. Show more
Tom Service celebrates The Joy of Bach.
New Generation Artists
Haydn's Rider Quartet on the period instruments of the Consone Quartet
1 hour, 15 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Nineteen-year-old Swedish violinist Johan Dalene plays Grieg and the period instruments of the Consone Quartet shed new light on Haydn in their first BBC recordings. Show more
Poetry, prose and music reflecting on the meaning of our existence. This edition takes you through an imagined mindfulness session, opening up a path of self-awareness. Show more
From the 2019 BBC Proms, Richard Egarr conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus in Handel's oratorio Jephtha, with tenor Allan Clayton in the title role. Show more
Ian McMillan shares extended interviews with poets Lorna Goodison and Jorie Graham. Goodison is the Jamaican Poet Laureate, while Graham was recently awarded the Pulitzer prize. Show more
Brand new experimental music for the new year, brought to you by the venerable Verity Sharp. Featured artists include Julianna Barwick, Junius Paul and Valgeir Sigurdsson. Show more
A concert by the Radio France Philharmonic of Poulenc, Debussy and Ravel. With Jonathan Swain. Show more
