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 organist and conductor Simon Preston. Presented by Tom McKinney. Show more
Hanover’s prince-elector plans to capitalise on Handel’s favour with the British queen. Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
2022 Hay Festival – Dvořák Plus with Aleksey Semenenko and Sam Haywood
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
Sarah Walker presents Dvořák Plus, performed by violinist Aleksey Semenenko and pianist Sam Haywood at the Hay Festival, with works by Dvořák, Paradis, Röntgen-Maier and Sarasate. Show more
La Scala Philharmonic perform Brahms's Second Symphony and Dvorak's Cello Concerto, the BBC Philharmonic, Maderna and Frescobaldi, and the Darmstadt Baroque Soloists, Vivaldi. Show more
Multi-instrumentalist Baluji Shrivastav performs live in the studio and Eimear Noone discusses Video Games in Concert. Show more
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Stutzmann conducts Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’ Symphony
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Natalie Stuzmann in Brahms's Nänie, Song of the Fates and Song of Destiny. Plus Tchaikovsky's great Symphony No.6. Show more
Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah, climate scientist Professor Emily Shuckburgh and literature scholar and New Generation Thinker Joan Passey at Hay Festival. Show more
Fiona Stafford explores composers' devotion to dogs. Eccentric composer Dame Ethel Smyth was so obsessed with Old English Sheepdogs, she had five, considering them her husbands. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Tenor Stuart Skelton joins Men of the Berlin Radio Chorus, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski in Liszt's Faust Symphony. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more