Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Mozart's treatment of love in its many guises in Die Zauberflote, Idomeneo, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro and Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
High Jinks and Lyricism: Schumann and Mendelssohn
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
High jinks in Schumann's Carnival in Vienna played by pianist Zee Zee and Mendelssohn's lyrical Piano Trio No 1 with members of the Calidore Quartet at St Marys' Church, Tetbury. Show more
Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales of music by Wagner, Schoenberg, Schreker, Eleanor Alberga and Weill. Show more
From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, on Ash Wednesday, and including Allegri's setting of Psalm 51 (Miserere Mei, Deus). Show more
Showcasing the BBC New Generation Artists: new recordings of Mozart from soprano Katharina Konradi and the Armida Quartet. Show more
Sean Rafferty with music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring Cycle
Wagner's Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold
2 hours, 59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Das Rheingold, the first of the four operas comprising Wagner's Ring cycle, from the Royal Opera House with John Lundgren starring as Wotan, and conducted by Antonio Pappano. Show more
Free Thinking
Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Matthew Sweet talks to author Jeremy Seal about the way Adnan Menderes mobilised democracy, populism, and religious beliefs, and looks at new research into the Ottoman Empire. Show more
Comedian and author Viv Groskop explores five forgotten feminist futures; from the book that predicted the internet to the world where men have been wiped out in a plague. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Kerson Leong, Stephane Tetreault and Louis Lortie perform Debussy's violin and cello sonatas and Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor. Presented by John Shea. Show more