Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Essential Schumann, Jack Liebeck, Ives's The Alcotts
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 Beethoven's letters. Read by Adrian Lester, today Beethoven's flirting gets him into trouble. He falls deeply in love and suffers the misery of rejection. Show more
The Belcea String Quartet and Elisabeth Leonskaja perform Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor. Show more
A performance of Bruckner's epic Ninth Symphony from the Verbier Festival Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu, plus another Chopin highlight from the 2003 Lugano Festival archive. Show more
Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with St Martin’s Voices. Show more
Eric Lu plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488 at the 2019 Chopin and his World Festival in Warsaw. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news. Conductor Andris Nelsons talks about his new Tchaikovsky DVD and there's a Home Session from John Savournin. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, with the sunshine of southern Spain, courtesy of Granados, Albeniz and Cristobal de Morales Show more
The Boston Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler’s Symphony No 6 in A minor and are joined by Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger for Brett Dean's trumpet concerto, Dramatis personae. Show more
Novelist Ben Okri, academic Louisa Egbunike and playwright Oladipo Agboluaje discuss Wole Soyinka's play Death and the King's Horseman and his life of activism with Matthew Sweet. Show more
Christopher Harding examines how Buddhism was reimagined in early 20th-century Japan in the service of militarism and nationalism. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Camerata Variabile Basel at the 2018 Schaffhausen Bach Festival in Switzerland. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more