Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Suzy Klein with Beach's Gaelic Symphony and Essential Sea Music
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
As Beethoven’s hearing continues to decline, he finds sympathetic musical friends who will help perform and disseminate his works. Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Tenor Allan Clayton and pianist James Baillieu, live from London's Wigmore Hall
55 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from London's Wigmore Hall, tenor Allan Clayton and pianist James Baillieu perform music by Schumann, Vaughan Williams and Britten. Show more
Tom McKinney introduces concerts and recordings the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra made in Edinburgh, including a performance of William Walton's exuberant First Symphony. Show more
The Listening Service
The Musical Universe of Maurice Ravel
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom Service scopes the musical world of one of his favourite composers, Maurice Ravel.
In Tune
Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer, Julia Sitkovetsky, Dominic Wheeler, Kathryn Tickell
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty chats to Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer about their latest release Not Our First Goat Rodeo. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises. Show more
John Wilson leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Britten, Copland and Bernstein from the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival with soloists Cedric Tiberghien and Robert Murray. Show more
An eight-tentacled look at the world of the cephalopod, with philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith, the writer Kate Fox, and with new poetry from Tania Hershman and Matthew Welton. Show more
Writer Polly Coles explores the curious coexistence in Italian churches of public grandeur and private domesticity. The Church is her final essay about Italy’s public spaces. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan invites American composer Lea Bertucci to compile our latest mixtape, and we play new compositions for gamelan and an early piece by Diamanda Galas. Show more
Concert by the Colluvio Chamber Music Academy in a programme of Beethoven, Shostakovich, Ravel and Copland. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more