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: Essential flute music, Ailish Tynan, Handel's Acis and Galatea
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Carl Nielsen’s world view through his music. Today, the Helios Overture and part of the composer's Symphony No 2, 'The Four Temperaments'. Show more
The Carducci String Quartet plays works by Haydn and Shostakovich. Show more
Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Today's programme includes a chance to hear Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust, Show more
Penny Gore presents Carissimi's early baroque oratorio, Historia di Jephte, in a performance from the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Show more
Katie Derham talks to Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason about her new book 'House of Music', and introduces a Home Session by Jacqui Dankworth and Charlie Wood. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist, featuring a lullaby by Arvo Part, the extraordinary sound of uilleann pipes and John Philip Sousa having some fun with Gershwin. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents a concert of works by Beethoven, Haydn and Tchaikovsky given in Vienna by the Israel Philharmonic and conductor Zubin Mehta. Show more
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters. Show more
Alice Oswald brings together her unique blend of poetic sensibility, classical scholarship and personal impressions as she explores Keats's great poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
A special coronavirus concert from Denmark with music by composers influenced by illness in their lives. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more