Hannah French 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. This week's Essential Performer is flautist Emmanuel Pahud. With Georgia Mann. Show more
Donald Macleod considers Debussy's life as he approaches his thirties. Today, Debussy finds a partner to ease the burden of poverty and enjoys the cafes and brasseries of Paris. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
LSO St Luke's: Rachmaninov and Friends (1/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Hannah French presents piano duo Simon Crawford-Philips and Philip Moore performing Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances and Three Movements from Stravinsky's Petrushka. Show more
Concert performances from around Europe, including the Violin Concerto in D minor by Sibelius with the KBS Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christoph König and soloist Philippe Quint. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by the Binker Golding Quintet for a live performance. Plus interviews with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and with Norwegian folk band Wardruna ahead of their UK tour. Show more
Boccherini and Mendelssohn begin this mix, Debussy's other-worldly Syrinx and Eric Whitacre's heavenly Lux aurumque take us far away, and there's a fairy tale from Joyce DiDonato. Show more
The Nash Ensemble recreates two of Dame Myra Hess's legendary National Gallery concerts with music ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Coleridge-Taylor. Show more
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Olivia Melkonian invites you into her grandmother's 42nd house to explore the sounds from an Armenian childhood, discovering more about the stories that have shaped the space. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in an eclectic programme of music by Elgar, Adès, Gabrieli and Kurtág, culminating in Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony. Show more