Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Britten's Simple Symphony and Essential Sibelius
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Beethoven's early vocal music, including Adelaide and Christ on the Mount of Olives, with conductor Simone Young and pianist and writer Iain Burnside. Show more
The Brodsky Quartet perform Elgar’s Violin Sonata and String Quartet, written together in 1919 and which resonate with shared musical ideas. Show more
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Donald Runnicles, play Bruckner's Symphony No 8. Show more
Early music from around the world, featuring ensemble 4 Times Baroque at the Arolsen Baroque Festival. Show more
Katie Derham is joined by violinist Nicola Benedetti to talk about her new Elgar album, and today's home session is from horn player Ben Goldscheider.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
Teodor Currentzis conducts the SWR Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich’s Symphony No 7, 'Leningrad'. Plus violist Tabea Zimmermann performs music by Reger, Hindemith and Clarke. Show more
Kate Molleson visits Greenland, the world’s largest island, to explore the role of traditional and new music for its communities today. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of their real or imaginary internal places of refuge in times of crisis. Alan Hollinghurst evokes a hidden copse of poplars in Gloucestershire. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Strauss, Weber and Beethoven from the Collegiate Church of St Vincent, Cardona. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
