Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Essential Brahms, Sallinen's Sunrise Serenade, Colonel Bogey
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Beethoven had left most of his friends and family behind in Bonn. He didn't want for company in Vienna but lacked a soulmate he could confide in. Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
The Nash Ensemble perform Schubert's Quartettsatz alongside his songs, and an aria and octet for strings, clarinet and horns by Louis Spohr. Presented by Hannah French. Show more
Opera Matinee: Gounod's Romeo and Juliet from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Show more
Top-class music from some of the world's finest musicians, and Sean talks to Graham Ross about the new CD with Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.
In Tune’s specially curated playlist, an eclectic mix of music including Handel, Laurie Anderson, Copland and Bartok. Show more
Conductor Ben Gernon and the BBC Philharmonic in Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4. Imogen Cooper joins them for Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25. Show more
Mark Honigsbaum historian of epidemics, literary scholars Lisa Mullen and Sarah Dillon, UNESCO's Riel Miller and philosopher Rupert Read talk with Matthew Sweet. Show more
Ian Sansom continues his series of imaginary correspondences with some of history's most celebrated artists by asking Frida Kahlo if she is a sellout? Show more
An adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. Hosted by Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Hannah Peel.
Elizabeth Alker with music by Anna Meredith, Erland Cooper and Julia Holter, plus new pieces by Hinako Omori and an exclusive preview track by Simon Fisher Turner & Edmund de Waal Show more
Shouldn't compose, shouldn't be published and shouldn't be performed. Ostracised and neglected music from the 2019 Järna Festival Academy. With Jonathan Swain. Show more