Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Carwithen's Bishop Rock and Essential Piano Duets
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod surveys the development of Pejacevic’s individual voice. Show more
Nelson Freire plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, cellist Sol Gabetta and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, Schubert, and the Swiss Chamber Soloists perform Schoenberg's String Trio. Show more
The BBC SO and Singers perform the UK Premiere of Anders Hillborg’s Breathing of the World, Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, and Arthur Bliss's setting of the New Testament. Show more
Sean Rafferty with Mitsuko Uchida, rock'n'roll bassoonist Bram van Sambeek, and a Home Session from pianist Alice Sara Ott. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist, an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites from Britten and Ravel with lesser-known gems by Part and Bjork. Show more
John Wilson brings his flair to Walton's extravagant telling of the fall of Babylon. Performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Show more
Free Thinking
The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Toby Green, Marion Turner and John Barton talk about their work on the history of West Africa, Chaucer in Europe and the Bible in the first of two programmes presented by Rana Mitter. Show more
Verity Sharp hosts a series of conversations and solo performances recorded at home by UK musicians. For this episode, it’s the turn of Northumberland-based singer Rachel Unthank. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Russian music reunites the Swedish Radio Choir with their former chief conductor, Peter Dijkstra. They are also joined by cellist superstar Truls Mork. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more