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 discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Today, life imitates art as he faces obstacles getting married, whilst writing a piece all about a wedding! Show more
The Heath Quartet and pianist Tom Poster perform Californian composer Paul Wiancko's Duo and Dvorak's Second Piano Quinet in A, Op 81. Show more
Penny Gore introduces a concert given by Emmanuel Tjeknavorian as a violinist, rather than in his more customary role as a conductor. He performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto. Show more
Sean Rafferty with fiddle player Sam Sweeney, composer Anna Clyne and Novus String Quartet. Show more
What do a typewriter, the moon and a ney flute have in common? Easy! They're all in today's mixtape, featuring music by Coleridge-Taylor, Lehár, Tailleferre and many others. Show more
Jonathan Berman conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Franz Schmidt's Second Symphony, They are joined by Matthew Featherstone for Lowell Liebermann's Flute Concerto. Show more
His short-lived empire stretched from Greece to parts of India and Egypt, but the Alexander myth ran across centuries and continents: we look at a British Library exhibition. Show more
Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC and how by the 1930s the BBC had become a powerful influence on national taste, being urged to do more for British music. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Two archive concerts, from 1966 and 1986, celebrating legendary Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire, who died in November 2021. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
