Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Roderick Williams, Ellington's The River, Essential Love Duets
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Bach’s role as an employee of the court in Weimar, where his duties included working at the court chapel and composing cantatas. Show more
Highlights from the 2019/2020 Manchester Chamber Concerts Society season and guitarist Milos Karadaglic at the city's illustrious music school, Chetham's. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs. The BBC Singers in Palestrina and Judith Weir and Ulster Orchestra in Tchaikovsky. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to clarinettist Robert Plane and violinist Lucy Gould, and introduces a Home Session by Martin Simpson. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including Purcell's Rondeau from Abdelazer, a nonet by George Onslow and the mazurka from Delibes's ballet Coppelia. Show more
Oliver Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by three 20th-century British composers, including the first performance of John Tavener's The Protecting Veil. Show more
Poet and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts and broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles look at the literature that inspired John Tavener - from George Herbert and John Donne to Blake. Show more
Tim Birkhead and Helen Macdonald share their experiences of observing birds and their pick of writing inspired by birds. Tonight's concert includes Song of the Nightingale. Show more
Professor Fiona Stafford explores Dover beach, World War II and Brexit symbol, and an emblem of Englishness for millennia. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Piano recital of music by Bach, Berg, Haydn and Liszt given by the 2018 winner of the Transylvanian International Piano Competition, Nikita Volov. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more
