Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Countdown to Spring, 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 considers the many contributions made by Ruth Gipps to education and to British music in general, with music from her Fourth Symphony and Wind Sinfonietta. Show more
Georgia Mann concludes the series, Elgar Plus. The Nash Ensemble play Elgar alongside Kreisler, the dedicatee of his Violin Concerto, and Wagner arranged by Liszt and Schumann. Show more
Music by Lili Boulanger, Wallen, Tailleferre, Gloria Coates, Brusa and Beamish ends this week's celebration of women composers in recent recordings by the BBC orchestras. Show more
The Listening Service
The Viola - Music's Secret Fire
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service sets out to understand how the often overlooked viola can unlock music's secret fire. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist Antoine Préat to talk about his Debut album ‘Polyphony’, and violinist Frederik Øland talks about the Danish String Quartet's new album Prism III
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, with pieces by Schubert, Mozart, Giuseppe Demachi and a vintage gospel performance from Mahalia Jackson.
BBC Philharmonic with Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards in an Italian-inspired programme. Alban Gerhardt joins the orchestra for Walton's Cello Concerto. Show more
Ian McMillan is joined by Sarah Churchwell, Inua Ellams, LJ Rich and Jonathan Bate to discuss F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby as it enters the public domain. Show more
Lucy considers how the life of Madame E Toussaint Welcome, sister to Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee, reveals the erasure of black women throughout history. Show more
Verity Sharp plays songs to put a smile on your face with music that uses the sound of laughter, from shamanic rituals to kookaburras. Plus music made inside the womb. Show more
Pianist André Laplante with a recital of music by Mozart, Liszt and Ravel. Catriona Young presents. Show more
