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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod sees Verdi make his mark on Milan with his first real operatic success at La Scala, and a work that would make his name throughout Italy. Show more
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, American baritone John Chest performs songs by Schubert and Schumann, accompanied by Scottish pianist Malcolm Martineau. Show more
Ondrej Lenard conducts Beethoven’s First Symphony, plus music by Dvorak, Brahms, Coleridge-Taylor, CPE Bach, Peter Zagar, Philip Glass and Gabriel Jackson. Show more
Live from the Chapel of The Queen’s College, Oxford, with music by Parsons, Tomkins and de Grigny. Show more
Katie Derham is joined by Solomon’s Knot, who perform live, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and cellist Pablo Ferrández, and soprano Soraya Mafi, who also sings live in the studio. Show more
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2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Wagner, Vaughan Williams and Elgar, reflecting on the past and looking towards the future. Show more
Medical implants and an octopus crawling out of the toilet - we compare plastic on show in Dundee with the art of clay displayed at the Hayward Gallery. Show more
Writer Polly Coles reads the third of her essays about portraiture and our obsession with ourselves: Fame and Infamy. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
John Axelrod conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein, Rota and Williams in Turin. John Shea presents. Show more