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 and the third of Kate Romano's five sketches of Vaughan Williams's life and music. Presented by Georgia Mann. Show more
After his wife’s death, Vaughan Williams throws himself back into life and celebrates his eightieth birthday! Donald Macleod presents. Show more
Janáček’s Kreutzer Quartet, Charlier and Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor, performed by Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the 2018 Cheltenham Music Festival. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Wednesday - Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony in Spain
2 hours, 1 minute on BBC Radio 3
More music making inspired by Spain. Pablo González conducts the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, and Yeol Eum Son performs Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. Show more
Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on the Eve of the Ascension, with music by June Nixon, Murrill, Leighton and Nils Greenhow, sung by St Martin's Voices. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by performers from the Sound Voice Project, part of the Voices Unwrapped season at London's Kings Place. Show more
Amina Alaoui sings fado, there's tragic music from Verdi, and upbeat music from Bach. Gesualdo provides darkness, Fanny Mendelssohn joy and Eric Coates the bustle of 1930s London. Show more
Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bartók's ballet score The Wooden Prince alongside Nielsen's Second Symphony, 'The Four Temperaments'. Show more
John Gallagher, Helen Hackett, Eleanor Chan and Christina Faraday explore the Tudor mind through art, portraiture and poetry and they debate Vaughan Williams's take on the Tudors. Show more
Five biographical reflections from comedian, actor and writer Adrian Edmondson on the themes of money, fame, creativity, mental health and…The Jacobite Rebellion. 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 Faure, Brahms and Stravinsky at the 2021 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more