Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Essential Bruch, Francesca Chiejina, Mahler's Symphony No 1
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Carlo Gesualdo is forced to act after learning of his wife's infidelity, brutally murdering her and her lover in an honour killing. Donald Macleod recounts the story. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall in London, music by Beethoven and Bliss. Show more
Tom McKinney introduces a week of recent performances recorded by the BBC Philharmonic, including music by Britten, Berlioz and the Concerto for Theremin by Kalevi Aho. Show more
Highlights from a concert given in Berlin in the summer of 2020 by Renaissance specialists, Capella de la Torre, including music by Piffaro and Sermisy. Show more
In Tune
Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Aoife Miskelly, Catherine Hopper, Nigel Foster, and Anna Webster
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty talks to the Italian pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell, and is joined in the studio by singers from this year's London Song Festival. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, with a few surprises including pieces by Zelenka, Mompou, Mozart, Hess, Glass, Prokofiev and Haydn.
Georgia Mann introduces music performed by some of the winners of the 2020 RPS Awards. Show more
Music Matters
Sam Amidon; US-USSR ballet exchange; music streaming; lockdown postcards
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters Show more
Martin Goodman, one of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the perils of writing the biographies of scientist JS Haldane and Indian mystic Mother Meera. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber's performance of Haydn's Creation from the 2019 BBC Proms. Presented by John Shea. Show more