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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
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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
Donald Macleod explores how Elgar's lack of formal training affected his confidence and his career, and how he felt snubbed by musical academics like Stanford and Parry. Show more
SCO Wind Soloists are joined by students from the RCS for a special performance of music by Nielsen and Strauss in the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. Show more
Tom McKinney and Linton Stephens introduce a concert given by the BBC Philharmonic and friends at MediaCity UK featuring music by Nathaniel Dett, Margaret Bonds and Joseph Bologne. Show more
Choral vespers for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, from Our Lady of Victories, Kensington, London, with the Schola Cantorum of Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by Opus Anglicanum and jazz pianist Jason Rebello performing live, plus an interview with soprano Máire Flavin. Show more
In Tune's Classical Music Mixtape: an eclectic mix featuring favourites by Bach, Grieg, Ravel and Mozart, a folk song arrangement by Rutter, and a unique take on a Gershwin song. Show more
Hannu Lintu conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven, Kaija Saariaho and Sibelius. Pianist Jonathan Biss is the soloist in Brett Dean’s Piano Concerto A Winter’s Journey. Show more
Presenter Rana Mitter and guests put aside modernism’s Eurocentricism and look at pioneering art, writing and architecture from India, South Africa, Japan and Latin America. Show more
Colm Tóibín tells us how characters in Ulysses are connected by song. Colm selects a passage from the Sirens episode, where Simon Dedalus is 'made a hero' when he sings. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
I Barocchisti perform CPE Bach's Harpsichord Concerto along with double concertos by Vivaldi and JS Bach. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more