Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring January Joy listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod continues his story of Franz Liszt and Hungary with a look at how the terrible 1838 floods in the country of his birth prompted a turning point in his life. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Barcelona String Quartet Biennale 2020 (1/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Sarah Walker presents highlights from the 2020 Barcelona String Quartet Biennale, today including Beethoven performed by the Casals Quartet, and the Dalla Quartet playing Sarda. Show more
Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite based on One Thousand and One Nights, and concertos by Robert Schumann and Shostakovich. Show more
Live music from flautist Philippa Davies, and we hear from Bob Chilcott and Bob Simpson about their new recording with the Houston Chamber Choir. Show more
Walton's First Symphony, Schubert's The Shepherd on the Rock and MacMillan's The Gallant Weaver are just some of the delights that feature in this unpresented sequence of music. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Simon Rattle, the LSO and Leonidas Kavakos give the world premiere of Unsuk Chin's Violin Concerto No 2, Sibelius's Symphony No 7 and Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin (Suite). Show more
Free Thinking
Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Sarah Hall's latest book Burntcoat depicts a relationship in lockdown. Monica Ali's new novel is called Love Marriage. Adam Mars-Jones is the author of Box Hill. Show more
Unearthing the peoples of Iron Age Britain, from warrior queens to Lindow Man. Caradoc Peters reveals a formative period of Cornwall's past that still resounds through the ages. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Cellist Karolina Öhman and Camerata Zürich perform a romantic rarity by Robert Volkmann and a new composition by Gérard Zinsstag. Catriona Young presents. Show more