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, 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, the tragedy of the Charleston church massacre inspires Walker's last work. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Reykjavik Midsummer Music 2019 - Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
From the 2019 Reykjavik Midsummer Music festival, Shostakovich's String Quartet No 11 in F minor and an arrangement for piano trio of Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence. Show more
With Fiona Talkington. The musical side of dystopia. The BBC Concert Orchestra perform film music and, with saxophonist Trish Clowes, Joe Cutler's new saxophone concerto. Show more
All noise and no good tunes? Tom Service bangs the drum for contemporary classical music. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to violinist Renaud Capucon, and is also joined by cellist Jonathan Roozeman and bass guitarist Lauri Porra, and pianist Cordelia Williams. Show more
Music across six centuries and three continents, with pieces from Thomas Tallis, Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, Puccini and Debussy, plus Brazilian Tom Ze and Bassekou Kouyate from Mali. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Herbert Blomstedt conducts the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Youth and experience combine as 92-year-old Herbert Blomstedt conducts the GMYO in Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Mahler's Rückert songs and Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony. Show more
The language of poetry publishers, with Carcanet's Michael Schmidt, Peter Sansom from The Poetry Business, Nell Nelson of Happenstance Press and Wasafiri editor Malachi McIntosh. Show more
Has our relationship with the night sky changed forever? Dr Stuart Clark concludes his personal journey exploring the night sky. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan welcomes in the new year with music for donuts by composer Robin Richards and private press gems from the western Sahara. Show more
Through the Night
A 'fiendishly difficult' concerto and a 'semi-barbaric' symphony
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Brahms's Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4 from the Barcelona Symphony and Catalonian National Orchestra. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
