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 Murray Perahia and West Side Story's Maria
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod is joined by Sir George Benjamin, who talks about the process of composing. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Penarth Music Festival: Schumann, Kurtag and Beethoven
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Penarth Chamber Music Festival, live at St David's Hall in Cardiff. Beethoven's String Trio in D, Op 9 No 2, Schumann and Gyorgy Kurtag. Show more
The BBC Symphony Orchestra play Schumann and Robin Holloway Sophie Bevan joins them for Copland's Emily Dickinson Songs. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to pianist Alexandre Kantorow, and tenor Daniel Norman and pianist Sholto Kynoch perform live in the studio. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music including works by Mozart, Dufay, Charpentier and Shostakovich... and a surprise from French singer Henri Salvador. Show more
Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck Songs, with mezzo Sarah Connolly, and Mahler's Fourth Symphony, with soprano Rowan Pierce. Show more
Wolfram Eilenberger, David Edmonds, Esther Leslie and Matthew Sweet look at the 1920s, a decade when many of the great modern philosophers did some of their most important work. Show more
Radio 3 presenter Elizabeth Alker celebrates the first "unclassified" composer, the Russian Sofia Gubaidulina
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Soloists Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Norbert Ernst and Johan Wallberg with RTE National Symphony Orchestra and Kenneth Montgomery in Elgar's Dream of Gerontius. Catriona Young presents. Show more
