Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – today, following Samuel’s first steps up the musical ladder, as he shows the world what he’s capable of. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Live from Wigmore Hall: Countertenor Tim Mead
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Countertenor Tim Mead sings baroque cantatas by Bononcini, Caldara, Handel and Scarlatti. Show more
Penny Gore introduces a concert given by Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and the Reflektor Ensemble, culminating in Beethoven's Third Symphony in E flat, 'Eroica'. Show more
New Generation Artists
Violin music by Henriette Bosmans
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Chamber music from Radio 3's New Generation Artists: Ionel Manciu and Dominic Degavino play Henriette Bosmans's Violin Sonata, plus a song by Pauline Viardot. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by qanun player Maya Youssef and Quatuor Agate, both of whom play live in the studio. Show more
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises, including music by Handel, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Shirley Thompson and Charles Williams. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Arabian nights and Scottish fantasies
1 hour, 29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Twenty-one-year-old Noa Wildschut plays Bruch's romantic Scottish Fantasy, and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic revel in the oriental warmth of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Show more
Ólafur Arnalds shares a cosy selection of seasonal sounds for autumn, with a safe haven from Polish pianist Hania Rani. Show more
Music Matters
Music theatre and the art of melancholy
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service talks to director Netia Jones and the countertenor Iestyn Davies about their new project where music and theatre intersect to explore melancholy. Show more
Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC, looking at how in the 1920s there was a new approach to performing the music of past. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Cristian Orosanu conducts the Romanian Radio National Orchestra in a concert of Elgar's Cello Concerto and Romanian composer Paul Constantinescu's Concerto for String Orchestra. Show more
