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 Sea Music and Phibbs's Cantus after Bach
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Beethoven looks to Napoleon Bonaparte as the inspiration for a new symphony, but will his hero prove worthy? Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Pianist Imogen Cooper, live from London's Wigmore Hall
55 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from London's Wigmore Hall, pianist Imogen Cooper plays Schubert's 12 German Dances, D790, and Beethoven's 11 Bagatelles, Op 119, and Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat, Op 110. Show more
Tom McKinney introduces a week of music from the BBC Scottish Symphony, beginning with a concert recorded in Ayr at the start of 2020. Includes Dvorak, Brahms and Schubert. Show more
Tom McKinney introduces a selection of items recorded at last year’s London International Festival of Early Music from lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and the Parandrus Ensemble. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news, with conductor Paul Spicer talking about his new release Rosa Mystica, and a Home Session from Wayne Marshall. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist, including JS Bach's extraordinary First Brandenburg Concerto, a vision of a better world with Burl Ives and Stravinsky's sardonic Devil. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Antonio Pappano with Louise Alder, Toby Spence and Gerald Finley
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
A gala concert from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, featuring a starry line-up of singers accompanied by ROH Music Director Antonio Pappano. Show more
A reappraisal of the French composer on the 150th anniversary of his death. Part of Berlioz – the Ultimate Romantic. Show more
Writer Polly Coles reads her first essay about Italy’s public spaces. The Piazza is the social, political and emotional heart of Italian communities, from hamlets to great cities. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classcal to contemporary and everything in between.
Performances by the winners of the First Prize in the Wind Quintet and String Quartet Finals, presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more