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: New Year New Music, Bax's The Happy Forest, Anna Chancellor
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, commissions galore - including Walker's first venture into symphonic form. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Reykjavik Summer Music 2019 - Glass, Schumann, Kurtag and Brahms
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Vikingur Olafsson and friends perform works by Glass and Kurtág, plus Schumann's Märchenerzählungen and Brahms's Four Serious Songs at the 2019 Reykjavik Midsummer Music festival. Show more
Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic and Holly Mathieson perform two works inspired by the work of Oscar Wilde - a symphonic poem by Ibert and Schreker's music for a pantomime. Show more
Live from the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London. Show more
Marking Radio 3's New Year, New Music week, trumpeter Simon Hofele plays Hans Werner Henze's Sonatina and Luciano Berio's Sequenza 10. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by soprano Susanna Hurrell, the Aquinas Piano Trio, and conductor Timothy Burke. Show more
Mozart bookends some swooning Rachmaninov, an arrangement of Rossini, and Falaise by Floating Points in tonight's mix. Plus a Handel duet and Saharan Faris Amine Bottazzi. Show more
In one of his final concerts, Mariss Jansons conducts Strauss's Four Symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo, orchestral songs with soprano Sarah Wegener and Brahms's Symphony No 4. Show more
Shahidha Bari investigates Wittgenstein's response to scepticism and discusses what it means for how we should think about ourselves and our relationship with others. Show more
Astronomer Stuart Clark explores our relationship with the night sky. In this third essay, he eyes the moons of Jupiter and reveals how they transformed our view of the heavens. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
A concert by the Colluvio Chamber Music Academy in a programme of Beethoven, Shostakovich and Ravel. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
