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 Ian Skelly: Martinu's Dance of the Bumble Bee, Essential flute music, Mary Bevan
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod surveys Nielsen’s postwar years including his Wind Quintet and Fourth Symphony. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, violinist Elena Urioste pianist Tom Poster play Messiaen's Theme and Variations, Grieg's Second Violin Sonata and Clara Schumann's Three Romances, Op 22. Show more
Penny Gore concludes her week of performances from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Today's programme features Brett Dean's Trumpet Concerto and Scriabin's Prometheus. Show more
Tom Service looks under the bonnet at musical climaxes and crescendos. How do composers negotiate the musical drama to often devastating beauty and power? Show more
Katie Derham talks to guitarist Thibaut Garcia and introduces a Home Session from recorder quartet Palisander. Show more
Take time out to refresh and renew your senses with 30 minutes of uplifting classical music, folk and jazz. Show more
Live at Wigmore Hall, Kirill Gerstein plays two of the most demanding works in the solo piano repertoire: Debussy's late, great Études and Liszt's ground-breaking B minor Sonata. Show more
The Verb
Landscape & Language: Experiments in Living
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Ian McMillan is in Barrow-in-Furness to explore the language of landscape at the Contains Strong Language Festival, with Karen Lloyd, Zosia Wand, Matt Sowerby and Clare Shaw. Show more
Paul Batchelor explores what is perhaps the least familiar of the great Keats odes of 1819 for contemporary readers.
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Verity Sharp presents highlights from the Lateness stage at TUSK Virtual Festival, including Cath and Phil Tyler, Mariam Rezaei, Stephen Bishop and jazz quartet Caröm. Show more
From the Herne Early Music Days Festival, Death and Transfiguration - Jommelli's Miserere and Requiem. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more