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 Suzy Klein: Percy, Edward and Wolves, Bowen's Serious Dance No 2, Essential Scherzos
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Donald Macleod looks at how Beethoven the celebrated pianist strove to become Beethoven the revered composer, carefully plotting to win over Vienna’s wealthy music lovers. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Australian Festival of Chamber Music 2019 - Koehlin, Chausson and Schoenberg
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sarah Walker presents performances from the Australian Festival of Chamber Festival 2019, held in Townsville, Northern Queensland, since 1991. Show more
Elizabeth Alker introduces recordings of concerts made by orchestras in Germany, including a performance of Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet by the Berlin Philharmonic. Show more
Fascinating and intricate patterns or the emperor's new clothes? What is minimalism in music and how do you listen to it? Show more
In Tune
Héloïse Werner and the Tippett Quartet, James Clutton, Valentina Lisitsa
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news, with live performances in the studio by Héloïse Werner and the Tippett Quartet, and by pianist Valentina Lisitsa. Show more
Sounds of brass from Walton, William Byrd, John Philip Sousa and a Balinese gamelan ensemble, plus Bach, Liszt and Chopin. Show more
Bang on a Can All-Stars join Bramwell Tovey and the BBC Concert Orchestra, live from QEH in London, in Julia Wolfe's Flower Power, a new work about changing society in the 1960s. Show more
Ian McMillan explores the language of leaving, resettling and exile with songwriter Ana Silvera and poets John McAuliffe, Igor Klikovac, Mina Gorji, and André Naffis-Sahely.
Poet and self-confessed apology addict Helen Mort reflects on when apology stands in for a sense of sorrow or guilt, drawing on some of the poems that have helped shape her. Show more
Verity Sharp presents a collaboration between two artists who’ve never met before, writer and reader-outer Roy Claire Potter and Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha. Show more
The Swedish Radio Choir with two pieces by Sven-David Sandström, who died in June 2019, alongside motets by his revered Bach. With John Shea. Show more
