Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Chopin’s final days in London before returning to Paris, his waning health again exacerbated by the polluted London air. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Great Music in Irish Houses Festival 2019 (4/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Performances from the 2019 Great Music in Irish Houses Festival, with music by Brahms and Beethoven. Show more
Tom McKinney ends his week of music making from the Baltic States with works by Part, Vasks and Kancheli. The Latvian State Chorus sing Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. Show more
The Listening Service
Leoš Janáček: music is a being come alive
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
How did Janacek, so profoundly rooted in his Czech homeland, produce music so universally appealing, and what was the spur to his final decade of unprecedented creative energy? Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by conductor Arthur Fagen and surgeon Dr Susan Lim to hear about a unique collaboration, and we have live music from Timothy Ridout and Tom Poster. Show more
In Tune's Classical Music Mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure. Show more
Martyn Brabbins conducts life-affirming music by Sally Beamish, Carmen Ho and Vaughan Williams, including his Four Hymns, with tenor Alessandro Fisher and violist Timothy Ridout. Show more
The Verb
Pausing and Punctuation - Experiments in Living
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Ian McMillan on pauses and punctuation with guests Kei Miller, Eley Williams, Kate Fox and Angela Leighton. Show more
What's the difference between collecting football programmes and objects that lead to art? Diarmuid Hester muses on the thin line between inspiration and a compulsive disorder. Show more
Verity Sharp shares electroacoustic soundscapes of rural Greece, traditional meditations from the island of Grande Comore and shoegaze bluegrass from Bristol. Show more
As part of the 75th International Chopin Piano Festival, Piotr Alexewicz plays Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and Prokofiev. Catriona Young presents. Show more