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 Balakirev's Islamey
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Beethoven struggles to put on his first-ever opera as the French army advances relentlessly on Vienna. Presented by Donald Macleod Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnside, live from London's Wigmore Hall
55 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnside perform songs by Edvard Grieg, Hugo Wolf, Libby Larsen, Charles Ives and Harold Arlen. Show more
Tom McKinney introduces more music-making from Scotland with a concert recorded by the BBC SSO in Inverness in March 2020. Includes Glazunov and Tchaikovsky. Show more
From the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge (first broadcast on 30 June 2010). Show more
The Consone Quartet plays Haydn on period instruments and James Newby sings Fauré and Quilter at the 2019 Oxford Lieder Festival. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with mezzo Kathryn Rudge on her new release of Hamilton Harty songs and a Home Session from Genevieve Lacey on recorder. Show more
An eclectic 30-minute mix handpicked by Anna-Maria Helsing, the BBC Concert Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Byrd Watching: Exploring English Renaissance Polyphony
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Recorded at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, Peter Phillips conducts the BBC Singers in a programme of English polyphony from the late Tudor and Renaissance periods. Show more
Free Thinking
Queer Bloomsbury, Stillness in art and dance
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
As the Royal Society of Literature marks Dalloway Day, Francesa Wade and Paul Mendez talk to Shahidha Bari about Woolf and gay Bloomsbury, plus a discussion of stillness. Show more
Writer Polly Coles reads Walls, the third essay in her series about Italy’s public spaces, in which she explores the history and fundamental ambiguity in the idea of a city wall. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classcal to contemporary and everything in between.
Ockeghem's Missa Prolationem interwoven with more recent music by Arvo Part, Howard Skempton, Caroline Shaw and John Frandsen. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
