Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Breakfast Beethoven and listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Mahler's Blumine, Seth Lakeman, Besses o' th' Barn Brass Band
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Marin Alsop and Simon Schama join Donald Macleod to discuss Beethoven’s world. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Great Music in Irish Houses Festival 2019 (2/4)
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Performances from the 2019 Great Music in Irish Houses Festival, with music by Fauré, Debussy, Chausson, Boulanger and Poulenc Show more
The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Bartok, Andrew Norman, Augusta Read Thomas and Jonathan Bailey Holland. Plus a work from young Latvian composer Jēkabs Jančevskis. Show more
An archive recording from Guildford Cathedral (First broadcast 15 January 1997). Show more
New Generation Artists
Mozart's String Quartet No 15 in D minor with Quatuor Van Kuijk
31 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Mozart's String Quartet No 15 in D minor, K421, played by Quatuor Van Kuijk, former members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists programme. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and countertenor Philippe Jaroussky plus Ruby Hughes talks about her new CD.
'Down by the Rio Grande, they dance the Sarabande'. Of course, they do - it's the In Tune MixTape. Show more
Chinese-American pianist Eric Lu, winner of the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition and Radio 3 New Generation Artist, performs music by Schumann, Brahms and Chopin. Show more
Free Thinking
Simplify your life - ideas from 20th-century radicals
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Laurence Scott hears about a pioneer of vegetarianism and advocates for nudism and camping as the academics Elsa Richardson, Annebella Pollen and Ben Anderson discuss Life Reform. Show more
Composer Roxanna Panufnik discovers an unexpected earworm in duty free at Tel Aviv airport. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
1934 was a year of great change in English Music. Aargau Philharmonic commemorates the passing of three great British composers and looks to the future with Benjamin Britten. Show more
