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, including our final pick of Mozart's serenades. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Malcolm Arnold's personal demons, including alcoholism and subsequent breakdowns. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
NI Opera's Festival of Voice 2021- Copland, Ned Rorem and Britten
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Kathryn Rudge, Ben McAteer and Elizabeth Watts, accompanied by pianist Simon Lepper, sing Copland, Rorem and Britten at Northern Ireland Opera’s Festival of Voice 2021. Show more
The BBC Philharmonic perform music celebrating the centenary of Malcolm Arnold, including his Concerto for clarinet and tone poem Larch Trees. Plus Purcell from La Folia Baroque. Show more
The Listening Service
The timeless power of contemporary choral music
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service immerses himself in the resonant sound world of 21st-century choral music and discovers how this music evokes both immediacy and transcendence. Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians. If it's happening in the world of music, you'll hear it first on In Tune. Show more
An eclectic half-hour classical mix focusing on Paris, a city for saints and sinners. From Notre-Dame to the Folies Bergere. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Kristian Bezuidenhout directs The English Concert in Purcell and Handel
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Kristian Bezuidenhout directs The English Concert in Purcell's Why, why are all the muses mute? and Handel's Chandos Anthem No 7, My song shall be alway. Show more
Ian McMillan on the language and poetry of puddings with Lorraine Bowen, Joseph Coelho, Kate Fox, Frances Atkins and Fariha Shaikh. Show more
As the puppet Little Amal walks across Europe to reflect the journey made by many child refugees, five European based writers respond in fiction. Emilienne Malfatto is in France. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan dumpster dives to share music made from and inspired by the world of rubbish, exploring the world of instruments made of recycled materials and odes to waste. Show more
Jordan sequences slow-moving, peaceful music to meditate to, including pieces by James Blake, Hania Rani, reworkings of Tame Impala and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Show more
Jordan Rakei presents an hour of his favourite healing, emotional instrumental music from Avicii, Thomas Newman, Four Tet and more.
Zubin Mehta conducts the Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, in a performance of Mahler's Third Symphony. Catriona Young presents. Show more
