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 Mozart's characterisation of the troublemakers in his operas Die Zauberflote, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Le nozze di Figaro, Idomeneo and Don Giovanni. Show more
The Calidore String Quartet play Caroline Shaw and Chausson's Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet with pianist Zee Zee and violinist Jennifer Pike at St Marys' Tetbury. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Live from Cardiff - the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
2 hours, 31 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Live from the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff the National Orchestra of Wales with music by Grazyna Bacewicz, Eleanor Alberga, Thea Musgrave and Carl Nielsen. Then, music by Sibelius. Show more
The Listening Service
Wagner’s Ring Cycle: The Ultimate Box Set Binge
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service explores classical music’s ultimate binge-listening box set - Richard Wagner’s apocalyptic four-part 16-hour marathon music drama, The Ring. Show more
Siegfried, the third of the four operas of Wagner's Ring cycle, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2018, with Stefan Vinke as Siegfried and conducted by Antonio Pappano. Show more
Ian McMillan and guests Val McDermid, Sophie Hannah and Katherine Stansfield discuss crime writing. 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
Verity Sharp digs deep to uncover the sounds of the underground, from traditional Japanese mining songs to the sounds of tree roots growing. Show more
Beatrice Rana joins the RAI National Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, followed by Mahler's Fourth Symphony. Presented by John Shea. Show more
