Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Chaminade's Valse Carnavalesque, Essential Bruch, Sean Shibe
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Two years after slaughtering his first wife, Carlo Gesualdo is preparing to take a new bride and to enjoy the musical wonders of the Este court at Ferrara. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Beethoven, Fardon and Dvorak String Quartets
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
From Cheltenham Festival 2020, another chance to hear the Carducci Quartet play Beethoven, Daniel Fardon and Dvorak's American Quartet at St. David's Hall in Cardiff. Show more
Tom McKinney continues his focus on music making from the BBC's orchestra in the north, the BBC Philharmonic, beginning with a concert given at the Musikverein in Vienna. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky. Show more
Half an hour of uninterrupted music themed around new beginnings. From daybreak to spring, from newly weds to breaking up and moving on, the music celebrates all things new. Show more
Ryan Bancroft conducts orchestral music inspired by literature: Ravel's Mother Goose and Anna Clyne's Sound and Fury. Plus works for brass by Gavin Higgins and Magnus Lindberg. Show more
How have our bedrooms changed from sleeping space to work space? Matthew Sweet's guests are all early career academics on the New Generation Thinkers scheme. Show more
Corin Throsby, one of the first of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, tells an audience at Sage Gateshead about the extraordinary fan mail received by the poet Lord Byron. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Kammerakademie Potsdam and Berlin Radio Chorus with Marek Janowski perform Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. Presented by John Shea. Show more