Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and Composers in their Own Voices. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Suzy Klein with Essential pianists, Duparc's Invitation au Voyage and Dalia Staveska
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
This week Donald Macleod reflects on five aspects of Tchaikovsky. Today he ventures down south, to explore the composer’s long-standing love affair with the Italian nation. Show more
With Gemma Lois Summerfield (soprano) and Jennifer Johnston (mezzo) in Mahler: settings of Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Ruckert-Lieder. Plus Ruby Hughes (soprano) in songs by Ives. Show more
The BBC NOW plays works by Copland and Ruth Gipps, and Emily Pailthorpe and the BBC SO perform a new oboe concerto by Richard Blackford. Show more
Choral Vespers from the Church of the London Oratory, with music by Gabrieli, Palestrina, Lassus, L'Héritier, and Buxtehude. Show more
The Consone Quartet plays Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2, known as 'The quartet of bows and curtsies'. Show more
Sean Rafferty with music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
In Tune's specially curated playlist, which today includes music by Austrian baroque composer Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and Benjamin Britten's awesome evocation of a storm at sea. Show more
Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston and pianist Joseph Middleton present a journey through song. Music by Schumann, Mahler, Ireland, Gurney and Vaughan Williams. Show more
Eddie Glaude Jr and Nadia Owusu compare notes on the relevance of James Baldwin's writing to understanding Donald Trump's America. Michael Burleigh gives his take on populism. Show more
Lorenzo Lotto is one of Martin Gayford's favourite painters. But the quest to see his pictures 'in the flesh' in Italy turns out to be tortuous, even for the most devoted art.
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra performs Brahms's Second Symphony and, with Christian Ihle Hadland, Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more
