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 German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Presented by Georgia Mann. Show more
Donald Macleod looks at why Dvořák turned down, and then later agreed to, an extended trip to the USA. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: composer to Louis XIV.
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Live from Wigmore Hall, Nevermind, four of France's leading Baroque music specialists showcase the music of Elisabeth de la Guerre, one of the most acclaimed musicians of her time. Show more
Ian Skelly introduces performances by the SWR Symphony Orchestra, including Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with Alexandre Kantorow. Plus Berlioz, Ligeti, Liszt and Roussel. Show more
New Generation Artists
Liszt and Vaughan Williams from Alexander Gadjiev and Timothy Ridout
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Chamber music from Radio 3's New Generation Artists: Alexander Gadjiev plays Liszt's Harmonies du soir and Ema Nikolovska sings Margaret Bond's Songs of the Seasons. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by jazz singer Stacey Kent, performing live with her trio. Show more
In Tune's specially curated mixtape with jigs by Holst and Corelli, a scherzo by Bartok, a berceuse by Dvorak and a waltz by Rodgers. Also music by John Tavener and Rachel Stott. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra play Strauss, Wagner and Berlioz
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Daniele Gatti conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Strauss's Don Juan, the prelude to act III of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Show more
Music Matters
Tyshawn Sorey, Esther Abrami, Alma Deutscher, John Mauceri
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom Service talks to composer, drummer and conductor Tyshawn Sorey, plus John Mauceri on his new book The War on Music. Show more
Lauren Elkin finds Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise, Paris, where the outsider in life overshadows in death the greats of French literature jostling for space in the famous cemetery. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle perform Schubert's Ninth Symphony and are joined by Leonidas Kavakos for Berg's Violin Concerto. With John Shea. Show more