Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Suzy Klein with Gershwin's I Got Rhythm and Essential Sea Music
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Beethoven rekindles an old relationship while working to dissuade his brother, Caspar Carl, from his own choice of romantic partner. Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout perform Schubert's Sonatina in A minor and Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 5 in F. Show more
Tom McKinney introduces music making from Perth from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including a chance to hear Ernst von Dohnanyi's five-movement neo-romantic First Symphony. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with pianist Rebeca Omordia on her African Concert Series online and another In Tune Home session. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
Radio 3 in Concert
Royal Northern Sinfonia: Mendelssohn and Schumann
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Adam Tomlinson presents a concert of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Part given by Royal Northern Sinfonia, violinist Alina Ibragimova and conductor Clemens Schuldt at Sage Gateshead. Show more
Free Thinking
Antarctica: Testing Ground for the Human Species
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Meredith Hooper, Ben Saunders, Hugh Broughton and Jonathan Bamber discuss the Antarctica of our imaginations and the reality of the landscape with Rana Mitter. Show more
Writer Polly Coles reads her second essay about Italy’s public spaces, La Strada (The Road), a place of exile, transition and vision beyond the civilised confines of the city. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classcal to contemporary and everything in between.
A chamber concert from the Chiemgau Spring Festival in Bavaria. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more