Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Beethoven wrestles with the new symphony he hopes will propel him to stardom, but the Viennese public are not sure if they like what he has to offer. Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
Hannah French presents the Nash Ensemble performing Schubert's largest-scale chamber work, his masterpiece, the Octet in F, composed in 1824. Show more
Elizabeth Alker concludes a week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Show more
The Listening Service
Sonata Form - or There and Back Again
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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In this edition of The Listening Service, Tom Service explores sonata form, used by composers to tell compelling musical stories. How can you hear them? How is it done? Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's searing Symphony No 11. Plus his Piano Concerto No 2 with Alexei Volodin. Show more
This week, the late-night language lock-in is feeling uncertain with Shaun Usher, Jo Neary and Jude Rogers.
In his series of imaginary correspondences with some of history's most celebrated artists, Ian Sansom asks Caravaggio about his penchant for violence, blood and severed heads. Show more
Verity Sharp presents a mixtape by composer and lead guitarist of Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood. Elsewhere, we play poemes phonetiques, ultrasonic recordings of bats and Indian soul. Show more
From the Barcelona Palau de la Musica, 2019 ECHO Rising Stars, baritone Josep-Ramon Olivé and pianist Ian Tindale, perform Korngold, Schubert and Strauss. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more