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. This week's Essential Performer is British tenor Ian Bostridge. Presented by Georgia Mann. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the music, and what little is known of the life, of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Today, Biber runs an errand for his boss, but absconds en route. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Live concert from London's Wigmore Hall: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective perform music by Dvořák, Frank Bridge and the groundbreaking African American, William Grant Still. Show more
Fiona Talkington with concert performances from around Europe, including Dvorak's Sixth Symphony with the Dresden Philharmonic and Haydn's First Cello Concerto with Sang-Eun Lee. Show more
New Generation Artists
Maria Dueñas plays Franck's Violin Sonata
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Maria Dueñas plays Franck's Violin Sonata in a breathtaking performance recorded at the BBC's studios a few days after her nineteenth birthday. Show more
Violinist Francesca Dego performs live in the studio for presenter Katie Derham, plus we hear from conductor, soloist and chamber musician Tobias Ringborg. Show more
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring music by Debussy, Elgar, Karine Polwart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart and Shostakovich. Show more
In a concert from November 2021 in Hanover, Andrew Manze conducts the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's mammoth Eighth Symphony in C minor. Presented by Fiona Talkington. Show more
Northern Drift
Michael Symmons-Roberts and the Manchester Collective
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Poet and librettist Michael Symmons-Roberts and musicians from the Manchester Collective join Elizabeth at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters, featuring the author Brendan Slocumb and Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä Show more
Poet Kate Davis explores the way Thomas Hardy's poem Afterwards has influenced her way of being. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. Show more
George Benjamin conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with pianist Tamara Stefanovich, featuring music by Benjamin himself, Oliver Knussen and Stravinsky. John Shea presents. Show more