Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Grieg's Butterfly and essential music for children
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod, Laura Tunbridge and Edward Dusinberre take a look at how Beethoven’s groundbreaking late string quartets were received by the audiences that first heard them. Show more
Andrew McGregor introduces acclaimed Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe in music by JS Bach and Steve Reich. Show more
The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Garrick Ohlsson play Dukas, Barber and Debussy, plus Stravinsky's tribute to Debussy, his Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Show more
Recorded in St Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick. Show more
Alexander Gadjiev plays Chopin's famous Barcarolle and Alessandro Fisher and Thibaut Garcia team up for some songs by Giuliani, a friend of Beethoven's. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music and arts news. With Conductor Robert Trevino and a home session from singer Joe Stilgoe.
In Tune's playlist, an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises. A joyful Handel organ concerto frames songs about nightingales from Finland and Renaissance Italy. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Glorious orchestral soundworlds: Tippett's Senegal-inspired The Rose Lake, Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 1 with Lisa Batiashvili, and music from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. Show more
His film roles run from Lindsay Anderson's if.... and Britannia Hospital to Carry on Girls, the Confessions sex comedies and TV's Coronation Street. The actor talks to Matthew Sweet Show more
Poet Kenneth Steven finds inspiration in Scotland's west coast islands. Each memoir concludes with a poem written about the island he has visited. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Manze explore space with Holst's The Planets, and the premiere of Katarina Leyman's Undulating Blue. Catriona Young presents. Show more
