Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Suzy Klein with Essential Quintets, Ben Parry, Harty's The Fair Day
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod is joined by John Eliot Gardiner, founder of the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, to discuss Beethoven’s first two symphonies. Show more
From Wigmore Hall in London, tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Julius Drake perform Janacek's passionate song cycle The Diary of One Who Disappeared. Show more
Andrew Manze arranges Lawes, and Weber invites us to the dance, plus music by Ruth Gipps, Jane Grey and Dorothy Howell with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Show more
Early music from around Europe: The Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin perform excerpts from Bach’s The Musical Offering, BWV1079. Show more
Sean Rafferty with live music from pianist Emmanuel Despax, Fabio Biondi tells us about his new album of Vivaldi. and composer Shiva Feshareki on Beethoven Remixed. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including Bach on marimba, Cuban cha-cha-cha, the sound of whales, Britten and the sea, and Tea for Two. Show more
Thierry Fischer conducts Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and his 'Emperor' Concerto with pianist Boris Giltburg. Show more
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters. Show more
Geoffrey Smith introduces his series on perceptions of jazz in Britain, and begins by questioning the dubious term 'jazzer' and its jokey connotations. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Frizza perform Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more