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: Jessie Grimes and Balakirev's arrangement of Glinka's The Lark
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and friends plays music composed or performed in Terezin concentration camp during World War II. Originally broadcast from the Queen’s Hall in 2014. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Dvorak's relationship with influential figures in the music world and how he created a name for himself outside his 'narrow Czech fatherland'. Show more
Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC orchestras and choirs. Today, BBC Singers in A Patchwork Passion, and Gunter Wand conducts the BBC SO in Bruckner's Symphony No 8 Show more
Katie Derham is joined by Simon Whiteley of vocal group The Queen's Six, composer George Fenton, and the Neave Trio, who provide today's Home Session. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist featuring music by Charles Gounod and Jacob Gade as well as performances by Cara Dillon and New Generation Artists, Quatuor Arod. Show more
BBC Proms: Carlo Maria Giulini and the European Union Youth Orchestra perform Brahms’s Second and Fourth Symphonies in this performance from the 1994 Proms. Show more
Care-workers interviewed during the height of the pandemic, interspersed with a poetry sequence, Shifts, written by Stephanie Jacob in response to these interviews. Show more
Soprano Abigail Kelly questions the colour of her voice. Sounds of Silence is a series exploring the impact of lockdown on musicians across the UK. Presented by Soumik Datta. Show more
Sarah Churchwell celebrates various leading men of the silver screen from the 1930s and 1940s. This time it's Frederic March, with his classic 'depth and versatility'. Show more
Hannah Peel with a special immersive soundtrack dedicated to the music of plants. From evocations of gardens and growing to music played on vegetables and created by spider plants Show more
Italian-American pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi performs a varied programme of Hummel, Grieg, Poulenc and Liszt. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more