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 explores Debussy's life as he approaches his thirties. Today, Debussy engages in some shady double dealing in his private life that scandalises his ally Chausson. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
LSO St Luke's: Rachmaninov and Friends (2/4)
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Hannah French presents Ukrainian soprano Olena Tokar with pianist James Baillieu in a recital of songs by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alma Schindler-Mahler and Sergey Rachmaninov. Show more
Concert performances from around Europe, including Grieg's Peer Gynt Suites, performed by the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Pietari Inkinen. Show more
From Truro Cathedral, with music by Assandra, Tallis, Gombert and Bruhns. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective for a live performance, plus an interview with composer Freya Waley-Cohen. Show more
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Philharmonia in Tchaikovsky
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall: Francesca da Rimini, the 'Pathétique' Symphony and the Second Piano Concerto, played by 2021 Chopin Competition winner, Bruce Liu. Show more
Free Thinking
The Stasi poetry circle, Nazi schools and German culture
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Philip Oltermann and Karen Leeder on stasi poetry and the GDR, Helen Roche research on exchange trips with elite Nazi boarding schools, Pamela Carter's play set in Germany 1936. Show more
Zoologist Hamza Yassin dives under the sea to investigate how our man-made noise pollution severely affects marine life and asks what lessons can be learned for a quieter world. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Philippe Herreweghe conducts choral music by Faure, Brahms and Stravinsky, recorded at the 2021 Berlin Music Festival. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
