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 the criticisms levelled at Bach during his time in Leipzig and the intriguing meeting between Bach and Frederick the Great. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Beethoven and York Bowen Horn Sonatas
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Another chance to hear a concert first broadcast in November 2020 as part of Cheltenham Festival, given by horn player Ben Goldscheider and pianist Huw Watkins in Cardiff. Show more
Croatian conductor Ivan Repušić directs the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin in Haydn, Respighi and Boris Papandopulo, plus more from Holland Baroque and music by Naomi Pinnock. Show more
Tom Service asks what rhythm is, how we feel a beat and whether we need it to enjoy music. Music includes Bach's courtly dances, Steve Reich's Clapping Music and James Brown. Show more
Sean Rafferty's special guests are the members of viol consort Fretwork. He also talks to Adrian Chandler of La Serenissima. Show more
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix including classical favourites by Mozart, Beethoven, Glazunov, Bach (arranged by Elgar), Ireland and Zelenka. Show more
Live from Milton Court in the City of London, the BBC Singers and their chief conductor, Sofi Jeannin, perform a programme of JS Bach, Isabella Leonarda, Reena Esmail and Fauré. Show more
Ian McMillan celebrates Orkney and George Mackay Brown's writing in his centenary year. Show more
To mark 400 years since the arrival of African slaves to America, author Caryl Phillips reflects on the life of the young African John Ocansey, exercising his freedom in Liverpool. Show more
Verity Sharp shares the fruits of our latest long-distance collaboration session from LA-based percussionist Carlos Niño and Guinean vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Falle Nioke. Show more
Beatrice Rana joins the RAI National Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto followed by Mahler's Fourth Symphony. Presented by John Shea. Show more
