Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with essential Tudor music and Respighi's Fountains of Rome
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Beethoven has charmed all Vienna with his music. His new challenge is to work out what kind of artist he really wants to be. Presented by Donald Macleod Show more
Sarah Walker introduces music for winds, performed by the Haffner Ensemble within the Georgian splendour of the Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham. Show more
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra play Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, and concertos by Liszt and Saint-Saëns. Show more
Tom Service explores the music of Franz Liszt. Was he all pianistic fireworks and no soul? Pianist Mariam Batsashvili explains, at the piano, why Liszt is so special. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to Leon Bosch about his new album Bass-ically Brilliant, and pianist Boris Giltburg introduces another In Tune Home Session.
Thirty minutes of uninterrupted music from Orlando Gibbons to Talvin Singh, taking in Bach, Germaine Tailleferre and a Northumbrian mining song along the way. Show more
Recorded at Kings Place, the Elias Quartet play Sally's Beamish's Quartet no.3 and two Beethoven Quartets: his Op. 18, No. 1 in F major and the 3rd 'Razumovsky' Op.59, in C major. Show more
Ian McMillan reflects on language and mirrors with Rebecca Solnit and Ira Lightman. Show more
Musician, broadcaster and birdwatcher Tom McKinney reads the final essay in his series on bird migration and its fascination for bird lovers - a very British obsession. Show more
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen joins Verity Sharp to discuss how music can help us tune in to a slower rhythm. Plus the sound of metal objects and reflections on the anthropocene. Show more
Le Concert des Nations, with Jordi Savall, in Barcelona. Catriona Young presents. Show more
