Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and music celebrating this year’s WOMAD festival. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Byrd risks his livelihood and his reputation as he ventures into music publishing. With Donald Macleod. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Longing: Chamber Music at Lundsgaard Manor, 2020 (2/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Highlights from the 2020 festival, recorded in Denmark. Music by Prokofiev, Ravel, Bach and Webern, performed by a line-up of Nordic chamber music stars. Show more
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Wigglesworth perform music by Stravinsky, Wigglesworth, Maconchy and Hindemith. Also Maconchy's And Death Shall Have No Dominion. Show more
From the Chapel of Selwyn College, Cambridge, on the Eve of the Feast of Mary Magdalene, with music by Aleotti, Amner, Nicolson and Bach. Show more
Chamber Music from the New Generation Artists: Elisabeth Brauss plays Schumann's Scenes from Childhood. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio for a live performance by Susan Bullock and Richard Sisson. Sean also chats to composers Gabriel Jackson and actor David Suchet. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Visiting the UK: Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
In our International Orchestras series, Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia in music by Bellini, Verdi and Rossini, taken at the EIF in 2016. Show more
The writing of Akutagawa, which led to the film by Kurosawa, explored by novelists David Peace and Natasha Pulley and film experts Jasper Sharp and Yuna Tasaka. Rana Mitter chairs. Show more
Five imagined encounters in the life of the English Renaissance composer William Byrd, as he writes his major work, the Gradualia. With David Suchet and written by D.J. Britton. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne perform Russian music including Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, plus music from the stage and screen. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more