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
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: James Stephenson's Green
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
Baritone Florian Boesch and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform Schubert's song cycle of unrequited love Die schöne Müllerin at the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Dvorak's obsession with opera and his comparative lack of success on the stage. Show more
Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC orchestras and choirs: Russian music from the BBC NOW, and BBC Concert Orchestra with David Attenborough in Peter and the Wolf. Show more
Tom Service discovers some of the most extreme vocals in music, from Mozart and Rachmaninov to Stockhausen and Daft Punk, and finds out whether we're all extreme singers at heart. Show more
Katie Derham presents from the BBC Radio Theatre, with live performances from pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and cellist Guy Johnston.
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, featuring music by Handel, Chopin and Britten. Show more
BBC Proms: Thomas Dausgaard conducts Danish forces for this 2010 Prom in music by Ligeti, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius and Rued Langgard’s remarkable Music of the Spheres of 1918. Show more
This radiophonic poem by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and composer Nina Perry explores the sounds and stories surrounding the flow of milk from west Wales as the land flows seawards. Show more
Singer Jahnavi Harrison explores the power of the breath. Sounds of Silence explores 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 last time it is Cary Grant - 'the man no-one could be'. Show more
Verity Sharp with off-kilter Cumbia, harp music inspired by Welsh horse cults and an exclusive new work by Khyam Allami, an Opera North commission from BBC Culture in Quarantine. Show more
Piano trios by celebrated romantic and neo-romantic composers - Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more