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 traces the important friendship Dvořák established with African American singer and composer Harry T Burleigh. Show more
The Doric Quartet, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Martin James Bartlett perform Brahms, Haydn and Mozart at the Belfast International Arts Festival 2020. Show more
Ian Skelly introduces performances by the SWR Symphony Orchestra, including Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra. Plus music by Messiaen, Franck, Korngold and Ruth Gipps. Show more
Live from York Minster, with music by Francis Jackson who died in January 2022, and who from 1946 was organist and master of music at York Minster for 36 years. Show more
The Palisander recorder quartet join presenter Sean Rafferty ahead of their appearance at the St Magnus Festival. Show more
Lose yourself in a 30-minute mix of music quirkily inspired by the Baroque dance suite, starting in the 17th century and ending firmly in the 21st. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Royal Northern Sinfonia play Haydn
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Sir Roger Norrington makes his final appearance on the podium conducting the Royal Northern Sinfonia in an all-Haydn programme, beginning with a drumroll and ending with a clock. Show more
A theatre company who travelled Britain in a van in 1922, how James Joyce's eyesight troubles influenced his writing of Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway. Show more
Diana Souhami steps into the tomb of Radclyffe Hall in Highgate Cemetery, where The Well of Loneliness author is buried with her lover, her lover’s husband and their dog Tulip. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Daniel Barenboim and his West–Eastern Divan Orchestra are joined by the legendary Martha Argerich in a performance of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Presented by John Shea. Show more