Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann. This week's Essential Performer is pianist Alice Sara Ott. Show more
Donald Macleod tells the story of Ravel’s thrill at first visiting the USA, a four-month odyssey that took in jazz, Broadway, Gershwin…and 20 pairs of pyjamas! Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
LSO St Luke's Artist Focus: Hakan Hardenberger
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Thrilling virtuoso duo Hakan Hardenberger and Colin Currie give a concert recorded at LSO St Luke's of music by Takemitsu, Brett Dean and HK Gruber. Presented by Hannah French. Show more
Ian Skelly introduces another chance to hear Dalia Stasevska conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in a programme of Russian and Icelandic music Show more
Is there a set of rules that makes English music sound English? Do you have to be English to appreciate it? And do you have to be English to be able to write it? Show more
Katie Derham is joined by medieval music specialists The Telling and pianist Alim Beisembayev. Show more
Pianist Katia Labèque curates a special edition of the In Tune Mixtape featuring music that she loves, including pieces she plays in duo with her sister, Marielle. Show more
Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers with conductor Barry Wordsworth. Music by Handel, Walton and a new piece by Cheryl Frances-Hoad in this jubilee year. Show more
Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti advocated the modernisation and cultural rejuvenation of Italy, and his art movement was one of several with radical aims and manifestos. Show more
Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of Rwandan nurse Yolande Mukagasana and her belief in reconciliation and rebuilding after genocide. Show more
Ahead of the first ever Gaming Prom, Verity Sharp delves into the vast and often surprising world of video game music. Show more
Drift away with a weekly dose of the world’s most soothing piano music, including Stevie Wonder, Alice Smith, Schubert and more.
Happy Harmonies with Laufey
Let your troubles melt away with these soothing harmonies
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
A blissful mix of harmonic tracks from First Aid Kit, Simon & Garfunkel, Billie Marten and more.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in a programme of Handel and Bach from the 2021 BBC Proms. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
