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, how Helene’s keyboard skills saved her life. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Cheltenham Festival 2022: Tom Borrow and Quatuor Arod
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Tom Borrow joins Quatuor Arod in Dvořák’s masterful and countryside-infused Quintet No 2 in A. Presented live by Ian Skelly. Show more
Gergely Madaras conducts the first two acts of Franck's opera Hulda, and pianist Nikolai Lugansky plays the composer's Prelude, Aria et Final. Show more
From the Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge, with music by Jackson, Sumsion and Elgar. Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians. Show more
An eclectic mix featuring music from Monteverdi, Richard Rodney Bennett and The Watersons. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
York Early Music Festival: The Gabrieli Consort - A Venetian Coronation
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Gabrieli Consort and Players recreate the 1595 Coronation Mass of the Venetian Doge Marino Grimani at St Mark’s, Venice, live from York Minster. Show more
Graham Robb joins Anne McElvoy to discuss French history seen from a bicycle seat and a library chair. Plus a view of the British on the 19th-century French stage Show more
Opening with Philip Larkin's poem Water, Jean Sprackland offers a meditation on water worship, relating it back to her childhood and her home town of Burton-on-Trent. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Netherlands Chamber Choir perform at the 2020 New Zealand Festival of the Arts. With Jonathan Swain. Show more