Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Admired as a veritable prince of music, Gesualdo is a sick man when he publishes his final sacred and secular works. Donald Macleod concludes his account of the Prince of Venosa. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Beethoven and York Bowen Horn Sonatas
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Another chance to hear a concert first broadcast in November 2020 as part of Cheltenham Festival, given by horn player Ben Goldscheider and pianist Huw Watkins in Cardiff. Show more
Tom McKinney concludes his week-long look at music-making from the BBC Philharmonic with some recent performances of music by Mozart, Schubert, Busoni and Schuller. Show more
Tom Service explores the appeal of the musical interval of the third. He asks why a major third can feel positive, a minor third sad, plus he discusses the tritone. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by guitarist Craig Ogden, playing live. He also talks to Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist including Peggy Glanville-Hicks's Etruscan piano concerto, a traditional Maori love song and Michael Torke's ballet An Italian Straw Hat. Show more
A Schubertiade from Salford with the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Ben Gernon. With guests including Elizabeth Watts, Martin Roscoe and soloists from the orchestra. Show more
The Verb
Zero-Growth Writing - Experiments in Living
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Ian McMillan is joined by Yanis Varoufakis, Patrick McGuinness, Jade Cuttle and Dr Seren Griffiths. Show more
Islam Issa reflects on his own encounters with Shakespearean understanding in the Arab world, from peasant knowledge to pop, and he looks back at a poets' debate in 1916 Egypt. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan presents an atmospheric mixtape from ambient artist and musician Ana Roxanne, as well as cello from a moonlit hilltop in Slovenia and techno from Detroit. Show more
Whitacre's Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe and Mahler's vision of heaven, his Fourth Symphony, with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Presented by John Shea. Show more
