Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem and two shortlisted entries from the Carol Competition. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod with the composer Sir George Benjamin journeys into the world of collaboration. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Presteigne Festival: Lili Boulanger, Peate, Rachmaninov, Finnis and Earl Wild
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Presteigne Festival, live at St David's Hall, Cardiff. Pianist Clare Hammond performs Lili Boulanger, Robert Peate, Rachmaninov, Edmund Finnis and Earl Wild. Show more
The BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Anna-Maria Helsing and with tenor Alessandro Fisher, perform works by Shirley Thompson, Finzi, Pook, Rautavaara and McCabe. Show more
How and why did Beethoven choose to open the most famous piece in classical music with 'ta-ta-ta-taaaaah'? And how did he decide what to do after that? Tom Service seeks answers. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott, and pianist Roman Kosyakov plays live in the studio. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist includes music by Mancini, Dowland and Tchaikovsky and performances by the Vienna Berlin Music Club, Jerusalem Quartet and Aurora Orchestra. Show more
The exciting Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective in performance. Includes Schubert's Notturno, Amy Beach's Piano Quintet and new arrangements of some of Reynaldo Hahn's best-known songs. Show more
Ian McMillan explores Brazilian writing, with fiction inspired by Clarice Lispector and work by writers Toby Litt, Victor Esses and poets Natan Barreto and Angélica Freitas. Show more
Radio 3 presenter Jess Gillam celebrates the composer whose music unexpectedly helped her though lockdown, Johann Sebastian Bach. Show more
Verity Sharp presents an exclusive remix of Beethoven’s Fifth by electronic artist Jlin. Plus Cameroonian disco, sounds of a post-AI world and a tapdance with a sewing machine. Show more
Violin sonatas by Debussy, Schumann and Franck, recorded at the Verbier Festival. Catriona Young presents. Show more
