Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Jazz composer Carla Bley forms the first of her big bands in the 70s. With Donald Macleod and writer and jazz critic Kevin Le Gendre. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Haydn Plus: Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton perform a recital of songs by Haydn and his contemporaries, recorded at LSO St Luke's in London in 2021. Hannah French presents. Show more
Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, plus Renaissance music from Catalonia, new music from the Vale of Glamorgan Festival and pieces by Dukas, Kodaly, Beethoven, Mahler and Britten. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist Peter Donohoe, and kora player Seckou Keita with pianist Omar Sosa. He also talks to horn player Felix Klieser. Show more
In Tune's classical music mixtape, including buglers on holiday courtesy of Leroy Anderson, Mahler striding out across the fields and a visit to Florence with Tchaikovsky. Show more
Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Brahms's Tragic Overture and Schumann's Third Symphony. Jonathan Biss joins them for Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21. Show more
Kathryn Belle, Skye Cleary, Lauren Elkin and Kate Kirkpatrick join Shahidha Bari to discuss Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy and a newly discovered novel. How does she read now? Show more
Astronomer Dr Stuart Clark explores our relationship with the night sky. In this second essay, he takes a journey back in time. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The prizewinners of the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Piano Competition perform piano concertos by Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Prokofiev in Brussels. Presented by John Shea. Show more