Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests, Composers in their Own Voices and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Suzy Klein with Essential pianists, Bernstein's Glitter and Be Gay and Leon Bosch
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. His ancestral Russian roots were a matter of great pride to him, but just how Russian a composer was he? Show more
With Gemma Lois Summerfield (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo) and James Newby (baritone) singing in music by Mahler and Ruby Hughes (soprano) performing Schumann. Show more
Hannah French presents the BBC Singers in a new recording of Rossini's Petite messe solennelle. Show more
Tom Service explores the meaning of virtuosity. He considers how much it is about excellent instrumental technique and how much it is about the ability communicate movingly. Show more
Sean Rafferty with music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
Classical Mixtape
A 30-minute mix of delightful classical music
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 8 months
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor, Paganini on violin and a milonga live. Show more
Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave overture and Mahler's First Symphony. Stephen Hough joins them as soloist in Schumann's Piano Concerto. Show more
The Verb
Writing the Weather - Experiments in Living
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Ian McMillan and guests including Jenny Offill, Alice Oswald and Wayne Binitie discuss weather writing. Show more
Anselm Kiefer, one of the greatest living painters, keeps a vast museum of work and materials, like part of a ruined civilisation, in the south of France. Martin Gayford visits.
Jennifer Lucy Allan shines a light on music inspired by heavy weather, from field recordings in Oregon to guitarist Derek Bailey’s raindance improvisations. Show more
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, performs a concert dedicated to Korngold, including a rare chance to hear his pantomime ballet, The Snowman. Presented by Catriona Young Show more