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
Suzy Klein with Nicky Spence, Wieniawski's Etude-Caprice No 2, Essential South American music
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod talks to Kaija Saariaho about the genesis of her award-winning opera L'amour de loin and why she once famously said she would never write an opera! Show more
Steven Osborne joins BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra principal string players for Shostakovich’s popular Piano Quintet plus Beethoven’s expressive string trio in c minor. Show more
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their Principal Conductor, American Ryan Bancroft, play music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, James B Wilson, Errollyn Wallen and Florence Price Show more
The Listening Service
Syncopation Syncopation Syncopation
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
What is syncopation? An off-beat edition of The Listening Service. With Tom Service. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist David Greilsammer, and hears from Paul Harris about the 2020 Malcolm Arnold Festival. There's also live music from Flauguissimo Duo. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist, including music by Schutz, Dave Brubeck and Saint-Saens. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Kirill Gerstein plays Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Krzysztof Urbanski conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stravinsky's spectacular ballet The Firebird, and Kirill Gerstein joins them for Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. Show more
Ian McMillan and guests look at the way poets have written about oil and the oil industry.
Opera singer Peter Brathwaite takes us into the world of his extraordinary lockdown project Rediscovering #BlackPortraiture, bringing art history’s forgotten black subjects to life. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan with new work for brass by Scottish outsider Bill Wells, sludgy drones from doom-metal band Boris and an archive performance of theremin pioneer Clara Rockmore. Show more
Beethoven Christ on the Mount of Olives and Piano Concerto No 4 with soloist Dezső Ránki. John Shea presents. Show more