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, exploring his place in society and where he belonged, from his own house to a new friendship group. Show more
The Heath Quartet perform Bartok's Second String Quartet and Beethoven's Tenth String Quartet, 'Harp', recorded at Maida Vale. Show more
Penny Gore introduces the first part of Handel's Israel in Egypt, performed by the Zürcher Sing-Akademie and Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, conducted by René Jacobs. Show more
Choral vespers from the Office for the Dead, live from Leeds Cathedral, with music by Duruflé and Guerrero. Show more
In Tune
Figure and Ashley Riches, Andre J Thomas and Carlos Simon, Stephanie Childress, Simone Ibbett-Brown, Alexandra Lowe, James Way
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Figure ensemble with Ashley Riches perform live in the studio. And Sean Rafferty chats to conductor Andre J Thomas and composer Carlos Simon ahead of their concerts with the LSO. Show more
An eclectic mix including music by Mozart, Chopin and Olafur Arnalds. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Alexander Gadjiev plays Chopin's piano
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Alexander Gadjiev joins the Consone Quartet to play Chopin on the composer's 1848 Pleyel piano. The quartet also play Mozart at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Show more
Free Thinking
Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
We discuss the playwright, Schiller, philosophers Fichte and Schelling, Goethe, von Humbolt, August, Caroline Wilhelm, who translated Shakespeare, and the poet, Novalis. Show more
Nicholas Kenyon explores how the launch of the BBC’s cultural Third Programme in 1946 rapidly advanced the revival of early music on the BBC. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Osmo Vänskä in Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more