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 looks at Poulenc’s precarious state of mind towards the end of his life. Show more
From Edinburgh, pianist Steven Osborne performs music by Schubert, Tippett and Beethoven. Show more
Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the 2021 BBC Proms, including Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto, with Guy Johnston, and Brahms's Fourth Symphony. Show more
The Listening Service
Igor Stravinsky: Understood Best by Children and Animals
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
'My music is best understood by children and animals,' said Igor Stravinsky. Undaunted, Tom Service seeks the essence of one of the 20th century's most elusive composers. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to bandleader and trombonist Andy Baker, and pianist George Harliono plays live. 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.
Live BBC Proms: the BBC SO and Martyn Brabbins perform Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, music by Anthony Payne, and with mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, Berlioz's Les nuits d'été. Show more
Painter Caroline Walker explores the life and work of Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the great artists of the Baroque age. Show more
Writer Ken Hollings is in northern Italy, contemplating late Nietzsche and the human condition, in sickness and in health. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a mixtape from French electronic composer and vocalist Colleen. Plus Californian garage-rock, Japanese cybernetics and joyful footwork from RP Boo. Show more
Downtime Symphony
Slow it down with lush orchestral textures from Mozart to Mary Lou Williams
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
An hour of wind-down music to help you press pause and reset your mind. With chilled sounds of orchestral, jazz, ambient and lo-fi beats to power your downtime. Show more
Happy Harmonies with Laufey
Show-stopping harmonies from musical theatre
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Singer-songwriter Laufey presents amazing music from Waitress, In the Heights, The Sound of Music and Oklahoma.
The BBC Philharmonic perform Russian music at the 2019 Proms, including Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more
