Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem and listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more

Donald Macleod explores how Vaughan Williams’s ideas about faith changed during his life, and how faith shaped this avowed atheist’s life and music. Show more

A recital from the 2020 Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music, featuring works by Ravel, Prokofiev, Brahms and Rhona Clarke. Show more

The Czech Philharmonic perform Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor and Ninth Symphony, 'From the New World', and Beethoven's String Quartet No 14 in C sharp minor. Show more

What gives away a composer's personal style? How can we spot their musical signatures? Show more

Sean Rafferty is joined by clarinettist Julian Bliss and talks to conductor Manfred Honeck about the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s new recording of Beethoven 9. Show more

An eclectic half-hour mix including chamber works by Schubert, Dvořák and Debussy, plus Swedish folk music and an appearance from Nina Simone. Show more

Baroque meets tango as Igor Yuzefovich directs the BBC Symphony Orchestra's strings in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons alongside Astor Piazzolla’s Las cuatro estaciones porteñas. Show more

Ian McMillan explores the language and literature of loneliness with Will Taylor, Okechukwu Nzelu, DJ Taylor and a new commission from Kate Carr. Show more

Legendary broadcaster James Burke reveals connections between science and music. This final essay leads us via steam engines and iron coffins to the modern orchestra. Show more

Jennifer Lucy Allan presents a mixtape from Rotherham artist and producer Rian Treanor. Plus nautical synths from Claudine Chirac and Henry Flynt’s avant-hillbilly blues. Show more

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in concert in 2020 performing Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs and Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony. With Jonathan Swain. Show more