Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Clyne's Dance, Essential Tone Poems, Nicholas Collon
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly Show more
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of African-American composer William Grant Still. Today, Still remarries and is embraced by the American musical establishment. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Glenarm Festival of Voice: Roussel, Hahn and Ravel
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Another chance to hear performances from soprano Siobhan Stagg, mezzo Ema Nikolovska and baritone Julien Van Mellaerts at the Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice 2019. Show more
Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom of recent years given by BBC orchestras and choirs. Today, Pierre Boulez conducts his own music plus works by Varèse and Stravinsky. Show more
Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with the choir of St Bartholomew the Great, London. Show more
Pianist Elisabeth Brauss plays Tchaikovsky's The Seasons at The Big Chamber Weekend held in Aldeburgh in February 2020. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by composer Paul Mealor and conductor Michael Bawtree, plus a BBC Instrumental Sessions from the trombones of the BBC Orchestras. Show more
In Tune's specially curated mixtape, featuring Venetian Renaissance brass music by Giovanni Gabrieli, a lilting dance by Dvorak and a joyous concerto for two pianos by Mozart. Show more
Marin Alsop leads the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in a showcase of 20th-century American music, including Barber’s Violin Concerto with James Ehnes and Copland's Symphony No 3. Show more
Sunday Feature
The Secrets of the Music Reading Panel
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Charlotte Higgins investigates how the BBC chose new pieces of music for performance and broadcast - who were the gatekeepers? Show more
Michael Goldfarb remembers the books and films that anticipated and shaped the response to the student explosions in Paris, Prague, London and Chicago in 1968. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Music by Widor, Loewe, Bridge, Chausson and Rossini, celebrating the Russian pianist Vladimir Yurygin-Klevke's birthday. With John Shea. Show more