Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Vaughan Williams's Tuba Concerto, Elin Manahan Thomas
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
The acclaimed period instrument Chiaroscuro Quartet perform Schubert’s 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet plus works by Bach and Haydn from the Edinburgh International Festival 2017. Show more
Donald Macleod is joined by Chi-chi Nwanoku to explore Beethoven’s writing for the double bass. Show more
The Israel Philharmonic and Gil Shaham at the Berlin Festival, plus recordings of Liszt's music for piano and orchestra performed at the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano. Show more
Early Music Now
European Summer Festivals - Valle Baroque Festival
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Carissimi's masterpiece Jephte, recorded at the Valle Baroque Festival in Sweden by Goteborg Baroque. Show more
Katie Derham talks to the American composer and choral conductor Eric Whitacre, and introduces a Home Session from mezzo soprano Dame Sarah Connolly. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises. Show more
BBC Proms
2020
Daniel Harding and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Daniel Harding conducts the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in works by Rameau and Beethoven. They are joined by Viktoria Mullova for Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. Show more
Fiona Stafford recreates John Keats’s epic 1818 walk, which inspired his greatest poetry, hoping to change his image from consumptive weakling to strapping, fit, doctor-turned-poet. Show more
Sound recordist Geoff Sample reveals how nature can enrich our lives across the seasons. Spring: in the Vale of Whittingham, which birds will perform this year’s dawn chorus? Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Romanian Radio National Orchestra with works by Chopin and Dvorak from Bucharest. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more