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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. This week's Essential Performers are British choir Polyphony. Presented by Tom McKinney. Show more
Donald Macleod finds Vaughan Williams broadening his musical horizons through studies with Hubert Parry and Charles Stanford and acquiring a new passion for native folk song. Show more
From Edinburgh, the Amatis Trio perform music by Beethoven's Trio in B flat, Op 11, and Enescu's Trio No 1 in G minor. Show more
Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta plays the elegiac late concerto by Edward Elgar, plus extracts from Mozart operas and Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio. Show more
Pianist Fumiya Koido performs live in the studio, and Sean Rafferty speaks to director Christopher Hampson about Scottish Ballet's reimagining of The Scandal at Mayerling. Show more
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites from Poulenc, Bach and Rachmaninov, a Klezmer inspired dance, and music by Isobel Waller-Bridge and Paul Dukas. Show more
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in an all-symphonic programme: Vaughan Williams's stormy Sixth Symphony followed by his monumental A Sea Symphony. Show more
Chris Harding explores challenges to Japanese artistic tradition as the Royal academy shows the paintings of Kyōsai and a new translation of Mishima's Beautiful Star is published. Show more
What can looking back at David Hockney's paintings from 1967 tell us about the relationship between art and changing social attitudes and the impact of observing nature now. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform chamber works by Strauss, Bacewicz and Nielsen interspersed with choral interludes. Presented by John Shea. Show more