Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Essential Organ, Louis Jullien's Extravaganzas, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses his attention on the excuses Monteverdi gave throughout his letters for being constantly behind with his commissions. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Dvořák, Webern and Franck, played by cellist Daniel Müller-Schott and pianist Annika Treutler. Show more
Highlights from the 2019 Lucerne Festival, launched by the Everest of piano concertos. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in an all-Rachmaninov programme. Show more
Music celebrating the life and work of a remarkable 16th-century French princess, writer and artistic patron Marguerite de Navarre, who has been called 'the first modern woman'. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by saxophonist Manu Brazo, violist Lawrence Power and pianist and conductor Simon Crawford-Phillips, and Portuguese choir Cupertinos. Show more
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises. Show more
Carlos Miguel-Prieto and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Walton's First Symphony and Esther Yoo joins them for Bruch's ever-popular First Violin Concerto. Show more
Kate Molleson discusses jazz legend Dave Brubeck with Philip Clark, considers improvising with David Dolan and Karen Chan Bennet and we hear about Tasmin Little's career. Show more
Adrian Edmondson remembers how rudeness and silliness made him laugh as a child and how they led to the glorious pursuit of laughter as he began his own comedy career. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Young Russian pianist Anton Lyakhovsky performs Liszt's Second Piano Concerto with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more