Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performer is pianist Hélène Grimaud. With Georgia Mann. Show more
Donald Macleod assesses the enormous demands of Richard Strauss’s appointment to the Berlin Court Opera, with music including the vast canvas of his tone poem Ein Heldenleben. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Chamber music by Brahms and Schumann from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (4/4)
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Long-time recital partners Canadian violinist James Ehnes and American pianist Andrew Armstrong perform music by two composer friends, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann. Show more
Violinist Baiba Skride joins Andris Nelsons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's searing Second Violin Concerto. Show more
The Listening Service
John Williams - the Force of Music!
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service has a close encounter with the film music of John Williams.
The Incantati trio perform live, and conductor Harry Christophers comes into the studio to chat with Sean Rafferty. 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
Explore the music of experimentalist genius Frank Zappa. The BBC Symphony Orchestra 'Goes Large' and the Guildhall's Ubu Ensemble includes tracks from The Yellow Shark album. Show more
The Verb
After Dark Festival: The Chance to Change
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Radio 3's After Dark Festival brings The Verb to Sage Gateshead alongside TUSK Music, for poems of change by Tahmina Ali, Mike Garry, Rowan McCabe, John Challis and Kate Fox. Show more
A stretch of Hadrian’s Wall was discovered in 2017 outside the Mining Institute in Newcastle. Poet Jake Morris-Campbell evokes the spirit of local god Antenociticus. Show more
Verity Sharp and Jennifer Lucy Allan bring you highlights from the After Dark festival in Newcastle, featuring Iceboy Violet, Nyati Mayi, Yeah You and Vashti Bunyan. Show more
Tokio celebrates World Piano Day with his favourite piano pieces from global cinema. Featuring tracks from Interstellar, Parasite and Up. Show more
Gameplay with Baby Queen
Video game music to capture the spirit of youth
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Baby Queen mixes a 'Coming-of-Age' playlist, including music from the Gardens Between, Gone Home, What Become of Edith Finch, and Night in the Woods.
Through the Night
Beethoven and Saint-Saëns from the Amar Quartet in Switzerland
4 hours
on BBC Radio 3
The Amar Quartet perform Beethoven's Second String Quartet in G and Saint-Saëns's First String Quartet in E minor at the 2020 Falera Summer Concerts Festival. John Shea presents. Show more
