Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring a complete Bach cantata for Holy Week and also including listeners' requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Copland's Letter from Home, The Winchester Troper, Essential Trumpet Concertos
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Pianist Jonathan Biss shares the wonder of Beethoven's piano sonatas with Donald Macleod. Today, they discuss Nos 30 to 32, a high point in Beethoven's keyboard works. Show more
Highlights from Bath MozartFest featuring Mendelssohn's Concert Piece in F minor for clarinet and basset horn, Op 113, and Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34. Show more
Tom McKinney continues his profile of BBC NOW with a recording of a concert directed by violinist Rachel Podger. Show more
Choral Vespers for Holy Week from Westminster Cathedral. Show more
Ema Nikolovska sings a haunting folk song from Macedonia and the Aris Quartet play an enchanting string quartet by Arriaga, 'the Spanish Mozart'. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to pianist Clélia Iruzun about her CD, Treasures from the New World, with the Coull Quartet, and to soprano Patricia Rozario on working with Sir John Tavener. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist, including a sprightly dance by Bartok, a piece for cello by Sally Beamish inspired by the river Gala Water and an adagio for trumpet by Verdi. Show more
Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play music by Frank Zappa; a concerto by Julian Anderson with pianist Steven Osborne; and 4 Ives Holidays. Show more
Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston about class and being born in the north and to historian Ruth Dudley Edwards about Northern Irish politics and identity. Show more
Five slow radio soundscapes, featuring themes from the monastic life of Downside, Belmont and Pluscarden Abbeys. The subject for this episode is work. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The Harbin Symphony Orchestra performs Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony and music by Vivaldi and Claudia Yang. Show more
