Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem and continuing our celebration of the Commonwealth Games. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann. Show more
Plague comes to Venice, Monteverdi enters the priesthood, and he returns to opera before a final six month celebrity tour. Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Highlights from the Schwetzingen Festival 2022 (4/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Antje Weithass leads a performance of Brahms's Piano Trio in C minor, Op 101, and Isabelle Faust plays Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 4 in A minor, Op 23. Show more
Alpesh Chauhan's recent Prom with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, including Shostakovich's 5th Symphony. Show more
The Listening Service
How does video game music work?
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom Service goes on an interactive odyssey to discover the secrets behind our favourite video game music. Show more
Sarah Walker is joined live in the studio by violinist Charlie Siem, and we hear from pianist Ronald Brautigam about his upcoming concert with Esther Hoppe and Christian Poltéra. Show more
Bach, Nina Simone, Mary Magdalene and everybody's favourite movie alien make an appearance in this eclectic mix of uninterrupted music. Show more
Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov premiere Julian Anderson's Symphony No 2 followed by Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Labèques. Show more
What happens to a creative mind when it has everything taken away? Dr Kate Kennedy traces composer and poet Ivor Gurney’s 15 years in an asylum, uncovering unseen poems and music. Show more
Heavyweight sculptor of steel, Richard Serra, chooses Jackson Pollock’s One: Number 31, 1950. But why this work, and how does he see it? Show more
Verity Sharp explores two of the UK’s most exciting experimental music and arts festivals, reflecting on Supersonic 2022 and looking forward to Supernormal taking place in August. Show more
Enthralling piano ballads from Sampha, Corrine Bailey Rae, Teresa Carreño and more.
Happy Harmonies with Laufey
Upbeat harmonies to make you feel great
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Singer-songwriter Laufey presents mood-boosting songs filled with inspiring vocal harmonies from Sammy Rae & The Friends, Amy Helm and James Taylor.
Pianist Piotr Alexewicz plays Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and Prokofiev. Catriona Young presents Show more