Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: The original rock music, Ravel's La Valse, Essential Operatic Villains
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Today, Donald Macleod and Erica Buurman examine Beethoven’s cut-throat razor, leading to a discussion of the composer’s domestic circumstances. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2020 (2/4)
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
A recital from the 2020 Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music, including Bartok, Desprez and Gesualdo. Pianist Gabriela Montero plays one of her own works. Show more
Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Show more
Live from Manchester Cathedral. Show more
Showcasing two BBC New Generation Artists: tenor Alessandro Fisher in songs by Schubert and Granados, and cellist Anastasia Kobekina in Myaskovsky's Second Cello Sonata. Show more
Katie Derham with live music and conversation in the studio from Mary Bevan and Laurence Cummings, plus violinist Anna-Liisa Bezrodny.
Hunter and prey are locked in an eternal struggle in tonight's In Tune Mixtape, as it dons its tweeds and heads off on the hunt. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Beethoven Unleashed: Mass in C and Symphony No 4
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
The BBC Philharmonic is joined by Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber for Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, and the Dresden Chamber Choir joins them for his Mass in C. Show more
Free Thinking
Advertising, Renaissance Art and Artemisia Gentileschi
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
New Generation Thinker Catherine Fletcher and art critic Jonathan Jones join Rana Mitter to consider how women have shaped art and advertising and new feminist writing in Korea. Show more
Writer Madeleine Bunting continues her series looking at the emotional fallout of not having a place to call home – a predicament faced by around 70 million people worldwide. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande plays Tchaikovsky and Bartok with pianist Francois-Frederic Guy as soloist in Bartok's Second piano concerto. Catriona Young presents. Show more
