Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast and, as part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Respighi's Flight into Egypt, Anna Chancellor, New Year New Music
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 life and music of George Walker, in conversation with his son Gregory. Today, Walker is Paris-bound, to study with the formidable Nadia Boulanger. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Reykjavik Midsummer Music 2019 - Prokofiev, Messiaen and Shostakovich
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Pianist Vikingur Olafsson and friends perform Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew themes and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 2 at the 2019 Reykjavik Midsummer Music festival. Show more
Georgia Mann presents a new year concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey. Martin James Bartlett is the soloist in music by Rachmaninov. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa and pianist Joseph Middleton, conductor Ian Page, and Big Smoke Brass. Show more
Old wine in new bottles from Bach, and a visit to the high Hardanger plain in Norway together with the evocation of bird song from Rameau. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Andris Nelsons conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The world premiere of veteran French composer Betsy Jolas's Bachville, plus the teenage Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor and Robert Schumann's Symphony No 1, 'Spring'. Show more
Free Thinking
Panpsychism - Is everything conscious?
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Matthew Sweet lifts the lid on panpsychism, a radical movement in philosophy with Philip Goff, Hedda Hassel Morch, Daniel Glaser and Eccy de Jonge. Show more
Astronomer Dr Stuart Clark explores our relationship with the night sky. In this second essay, he takes a journey back in time. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra plays Respighi, Bottesini and Strauss. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more