Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Yarmouth Fair, Tippett's A Child of Our Time, Essential Scherzos
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Newly arrived in Vienna, Beethoven seeks out music lessons with the most celebrated musician in the city, Joseph Haydn. It proves to be an uneasy relationship for both of them. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Australian Festival of Chamber Music 2019 - Haydn, Francaix and Sibelius
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Sarah Walker presents performances from the Australian Festival of Chamber Music 2019, held in Townsville, Northern Queensland, since 1991. Show more
Today's tour of German orchestras and cities begins in Hamburg with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach performing music by Shostakovich and Bruckner. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news, with live performances in the studio by vocal ensemble Papagena and pianist Branka Parlic, and we talk to Viviana Durante.
Orchestral music by Brahms and Eric Coates, fire-themed pieces by Debussy and Stravinsky separated by the tranquility of Arvo Pärt, and the driving rhythms of Alfonso and Adams. Show more
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, perform Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and his Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II. Show more
Daniel Levitin on ageing and Adam Rutherford on race and genetics. Plus the link between Adam and Eve, blushing and white nationalism. Rana Mitter presents. Show more
Poet Helen Mort explores the contemporary hunger for apology, reflecting on when we say sorry to justify our actions rather than express contrition. Show more
Hannah Peel presents a sonic journey through the wind and air. Music inspired by the clouds, the spirits and gods of the sky, and even music made by the air itself.
Pianist Kotaro Fukuma performs sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven, followed by a selection of virtuoso encores, from Satie to Gershwin. With John Shea. Show more