Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Piano Crimes, Tabakova's Rose Garden by Midnight, Essential Organ
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod looks at Monteverdi’s family and his love and devotion for them, bringing up his two boys single-handedly after the death of his wife Claudia. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Perth Concert Hall 2018
The Arod Quartet play Al Asr by French composer Benjamin Attahir
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Still in their early twenties, the Arod quartet perform Schumann and a recent commission. Show more
Mahler's Sixth Symphony and Beethoven's Violin Concerto from the 2019 Lucerne Festival. Violinist Leonidas Kavakos plays the Beethoven concerto and follows it with solo Bach. Show more
Why are there so many performances and recordings of the same pieces? Tom Service explores western classical music's insatiable need for endless interpretation. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by conductor Paavo Järvi, lutenist Thomas Dunford and pianist George Harliono. Show more
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, today including music by Debussy, Landini and Gershwin.
The Philharmonia presents an all-Russian programme with its principal conductor designate, Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Show more
Checking in with Ian McMillan are Eimear McBride on her new novel Strange Hotel, Andy Miller on Anita Brookner's classic Hotel Du Lac, and Roger Luckhurst on corridors. Show more
When he was a teenager, Stephen K Amos’s family moved back to Nigeria. And there, for the first time, he saw TV that mirrored his own life and discovered the work of Redd Foxx. Show more
Verity Sharp presents a mixtape by the Berlin-based electronic producer Ziúr, and we play apocalyptic rebetika and music for turntables and accordion. Show more
Amy Beach and Franz Schubert from Montebello Chamber Music Festival in Switzerland. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more