Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is poet and translator George Szirtes. With music by Tallis, Bach, Ravel and Berlioz. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Jonathan Plowright plays Bach, Grieg and Liszt
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Live from London's Wigmore Hall, pianist Jonathan Plowright plays Bach-Busoni's Chaconne in D minor, Liszt's Consolations and Grieg's Holberg Suite. Show more
An exploration of the lives and music of an extraordinarily musical 17th-century dynasty - the Gibbons family. Presented by Lucie Skeaping. Show more
Live from the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, with the Trinity Laban Chapel Choir, with music by Parry, Byrd, Brahms and Bach. Show more
Alyn Shipton with music from Mildred Bailey, Vic Dickenson and Esbjorn Svensson. Show more
Tom Service examines the intimate relationship between music and our minds. How does music affect our mental health? How do we use music to alter or deepen the way we feel? Show more
Poetry and prose on the lives and fortunes of plants, animals and humans from the changing metropolis. With poems by Phillip Larkin, John Keats and Rainer Maria Rilke. Show more
Andy Kershaw introduces his own cassette recordings of music from his travels during the 1980s and 1990s. Show more
Simon Russell Beale plays Cecil Sharp in Nell Leyshon's play Folk, inspired by his song-collecting in Somerset in the summer of 1903. Show more
Catrin Finch begins her musical travels with the pieces that opened her ears to the magical sound of instrument, from Handel to Henriette Renié, a leading figure in the harp world. Show more
Kate Molleson presents a second night of live music from Glasgow's City Halls with works by Tania Léon, Arnulf Herrmann and Graciela Paraskevaidis. Show more
Teeth-brushing tango and restorative Rachmaninov - Bryony finds solace in Clemmie's classical playlist. Show more
Through the Night
Barber's Violin Concerto and Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
Violinist Augustin Hadelich performs the Barber concerto with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, then the orchestra plays Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony. John Shea presents. Show more