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 essential winter music, Wayne Marshall, Paganini's La Campanella
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Beethoven turns to a small circle of close friends and family to care for him as he struggles with what they fear will be his final illness. Show more
Two of Norway's leading performers, pianist Christian Ihle Hadland and soprano Ann-Helen Moen, present Grieg's The Mountain Maid song cycle and Six German Lieder plus songs by Sibelius. Show more
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Hannah French presents music by Mozart, Schubert and John Mayer, and the complete Miraculous Mandarin ballet by Bartok. Show more
The Listening Service
Turn up the Volume, Dial up the Drama
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
From loud to soft, even louder and even softer, dynamics are crucial to the dramatic effect of music. Tom Service adjusts the volume. Show more
Katie Derham with live music from soprano Fatma Said, Errollyn Wallen on her Spitalfields Festival at Home Song Club, and fiddle player Martin Hayes. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
The legendary jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, recorded live in concert at the Royal Festival Hall in October 1992. Show more
Ian McMillan talks to Margaret Atwood about her writing process and the connections between her poetry and fiction. Show more
Poet Kenneth Steven finds that the new routes are opening up the Highlands to tourists for the first time and a romantic view of the lochs and mountains was born. Show more
Verity Sharp presents a session between oud player Sam Shalabi and ‘spiritual jazz soothsayer’ Angel Bat Dawid. Plus new Oliver Coates and the sound of water on metal and skin. Show more
Through the Night
Sinfonietta Riga with Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Dvorak's Serenade
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
A concert given in Latvia's capital conducted by oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk. John Shea presents. Show more