Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Essential Sibelius and Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpiper
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Beethoven's Mass in C, the concert aria Ah Perfido! and a selection of his songs, with conductor Simone Young and pianist and writer Iain Burnside. Show more
SCO Wind Soloists are joined by students from the RCS for a special performance of music by Nielsen and Strauss in the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. Show more
Highlights from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's current season, including symphonies by Elgar and Shostakovich. Show more
Katie Derham is joined by baritone Roderick Williams to talk about his new release, and today's home session is from pianist Yulia Chaplina. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
From the Royal Festival Hall, Paul Lewis performs a sonata by Haydn, a trio of intermezzi by Brahms and Beethoven's epic Diabelli Variations. Show more
Free Thinking
Encylopedias and Knowledge: from Diderot to Wikipedia
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Diderot: Encyclopedie creator, satirist, radical. Biographer Andrew S Curran discusses Diderot's writings on nature, occultism, monarchy and art with Shahidha Bari. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of an internal place of refuge in times of crisis. Inua Ellams recalls the Grand Hall of Battersea Arts Centre and a kitten called Pluto. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Turina and Ravel arranged for wind quintet and performed by the Azahar Ensemble. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more