Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Suzy Klein with essential clarinet music and Tarrega's Memories of the Alhambra
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Rachmaninov, tired of his busy life as a pianist, decided to devote 1926 to composition. Donald Macleod looks at how it turned out. Show more
Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov performs music by Scarlatti, CPE Bach and Beethoven, live at the 2016 Hay Festival. Show more
Penny Gore introduces a performance of a major work by George Enescu, his oratorio Ghosts, reconstructed from a recently discovered manuscript lost in the First World War. Show more
From St Davids Cathedral (first broadcast 27 May 2009). Show more
Timothy Ridout plays the Viola Sonata by Paul Juon, 'the Russian Brahms', plus a number from jazz guitarist Rob Luft and his quintet. Show more
Katie Derham talks to Peter Whelan, artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra, and introduces a Home Session by tenor Gavan Ring with guitarist Xuefei Yang. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist including a concerto for two cellos by Vivaldi, Alfred Schinttke's music for the film The Waltz and the quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto. Show more
James Gaffigan conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists in Lili's Psalms and Cantata Faust et Hélène. Pianist Alexandra Dariescu joins for Nadia's Fantaisie variée. Show more
Her most recent novel reframed the 1820 book Melmoth the Wanderer with a female lead and her atmospheric Essex Serpent explored Victorian superstition. How do our times feel? Show more
Poet Helen Mort's daily exercise walks with her toddler echo the rooted explorations of Dorothy Wordsworth in the Lake District. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Music by Haydn and Bartok performed by the Casals Quartet. They are joined by Alexander Melnikov for Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor. Presented by John Shea. Show more
