Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod contrasts developments in Copland’s personal life with wider issues: the spectre of nuclear war, disillusionment with the Soviet Union, and the flight to suburbia. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (4/4)
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
The Consone Quartet play works by Mendelssohn and Schumann at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Show more
Tom McKinney presents recent concert performances by Parisian orchestras: the French National Orchestra in Debussy, Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns and jazz concertos by Martial Solal. Show more
Tom Service explores 'tunes for 'toons' - music that accompanies cartoons from the earliest films featuring Mickey Mouse to the sophisticated animations of today. Show more
Katie Derham welcomes clarinettist Julian Bliss and pianist James Baillieu to the studio, and talks to Geoffrey Littlefield about his new biography of arranger Nelson Riddle. Show more
In Tune's classical music mixtape, including a polonaise for piano duet by Wagner, Invocatio for string quartet by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Bartok's Hungarian Peasant Dances. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Peter Phillips conducts Latin American renaissance polyphony
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
The BBC Singers and Peter Phillips explore renaissance polyphony from Latin America, including the world premiere of a work recently discovered in Puebla Cathedral Library. Show more
Ian McMillan is joined by collaborators: novelists Nicci Gerard and Sean French, and comedy-jazz-rap duo Harry and Chris. Show more
Dan Rebellato revisits the Paris Commune, a cornerstone of radical culture, politics and social movements, and its legacy today, on its 150th anniversary. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a mixtape curated by Time Cow, part of the forward-thinking Jamaican collective Equiknoxx. Plus avant-garde Tuareg folk and Japanese improv from 1982. Show more
In response to the Covid-19 crisis, a special concert from Denmark with music by composers influenced by illness in their lives. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
