Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring a complete Bach cantata and also including listeners' requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Georgia Mann with Schumann's Liebst du um Schönheit and essential Easter music
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann. Show more
Donald Macleod presents five takes on the life and music of Gioachino Rossini. Today, the music that Rossini didn’t have to write. Show more
Sarah Walker presents piano music by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov played by young Russian virtuoso Sergei Redkin. Show more
Charles Villiers Stanford's opera, The Veiled Prophet, from the 2019 Wexford Festival. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to Owain Park of vocal group The Gesualdo Six about their new release Fading, and there's a Home Session from bassoonist Laurence Perkins. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
Beethoven's Symphony No 9. National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, youth choirs and soloists Ailish Tynan, Jennifer Johnston, Toby Spence and Gerald Finley from the 2013 Proms. Show more
Rana Mitter is joined by Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves to explore the books which inspired Shakespeare from the Bible and classical stories to his contemporaries. Show more
Writer Rachel Cooke continues her series about the single woman, with widows. Show more
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey conjured from the BBC music archives.
Featuring an exclusive track from Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, a love song by Mica Levi and a bedtime story from Jarvis Cocker. Show more
The Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Antonello Manacorda perform Beethoven's Symphony No 6, 'Pastoral', and, with Isabelle Faust, Schumann's Violin Concerto. John Shea presents. Show more
