Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Instruments of the Orchestra, Essential Vivaldi
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the year 1816, a year in which Schubert made his first money from composing after his friends encouraged him to leave teaching and devote himself to music. Show more
Quatuor Mosaïques play Beethoven and Haydn at the Lammermuir Festival. Show more
With Haydn's Symphony No 22, Donizetti's mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor, Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, arranged for orchestra, and serenades by Dvorak and Britten. Show more
Katie Derham is joined by Dr Peter Lovatt, aka Dr Dance, to talk about his new book 'The Dance Cure'. She also talks to bassoonist Laurence Perkins. Show more
Music by English composers Coates, Howells and Bridge, and French composers Debussy (arranged by Ravel) and Fauré. And Brad Mehldau's arrangement of a Beatles song for jazz piano. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Bless'd Isle: Richard Egarr directs the Academy of Ancient Music
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Richard Egarr directs the Academy of Ancient Music and soprano Carolyn Sampson in music by English masters including Dowland, Purcell, Handel and Arne. Show more
250 years after the birth of a key figure in the English Romantic movement - Sarah Jackson meets the directors of Lancaster University's Wordsworth Centre for the Study of Poetry Show more
The life and struggle of Paul Robeson through song. Granddaughter Susan Robeson charts the ways in which Robeson reforged the lyrics of Ol' Man River into a song of defiance. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The Romanian Chamber Orchestra plays Bartok, Tchaikovsky and Grieg. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more