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, presented by Tom McKinney. This week's Essential Performers are violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster. Show more
Donald Macleod continues his 'Tour de France' in a week exploring revolutionary French composer Hélène de Montgeroult. Today, the Reign of Terror turns her life upside down. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Cheltenham Festival 2022: Helen Charlston and Kunal Lahiry
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Radio 3 New Generation Artists Helen Charlston and Kunal Lahiry present songs inspired by birds and the music they create all around us. Presented live by Ian Skelly. Show more
Pianist Florian Noack performs Franck's Symphonic Variations with the Liege Royal Philharmonic, who also perform Franck's friend and student Chausson's Symphony in B flat. Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians. Show more
Summer scents and making the most of life, whatever it throws at you, are at the heart of tonight’s mixtape, which includes music by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Bartok. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
York Early Music Festival: The Sixteen's Choral Pilgrimage 2022
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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The Sixteen perform Hubert Parry's six moving Songs of Farewell, plus works by Thomas Campion, Cecilia MacDowell and Herbert Howells at York Minster. Show more
Clorinda the Warrior is the focus of Shobana Jeyasingh's new dance set to Claudio Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento. Janina Ramirez has written Femina. Cat Jarman is an archaeologist. Show more
Beginning with Philip Larkin's' poem Absences, Sinead Morrissey reflects on the lost Communist faith of her Belfast childhood. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
José Cura conducts the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Respighi and Puccini. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more