Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests, the Friday poem, and a celebration of the BBC centenary. 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
Louis Armstrong gets his big break as the Harlem Renaissance comes to an end. Jazz composer and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis tells Donald Macleod how the movement changed music. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
LSO St Luke's: Jazz Inflections - Aleksey Semenenko
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 10 months
Hannah French presents Aleksey Semenenko and Inna Firsova in a concert of jazz-inspired music, from Ravel's blues-infused Violin Sonata to Heifetz's arrangement of Porgy and Bess. Show more
Anja Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, and the Czech Philharmonic perform Smetana. Show more
The Listening Service
Wagner’s Ring Cycle: The Ultimate Box Set Binge
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service explores classical music’s ultimate binge-listening box set - Richard Wagner’s apocalyptic four-part 16-hour marathon music drama, The Ring. Show more
Katie Derham is joined by pianist Louis Lortie and, from Estonia, Duo Kits-Heinoja. Show more
An eclectic mix of classical favourites and a few surprises with music by Schubert, Scarlatti, Fauré, Stravinsky, Tavener... and the Kronos Quartet collaborating with African stars Show more
With Alyn Shipton. 2022 EFG London Jazz Festival. Music by Tomasz Stanko with Marcin Wasilewski Trio and trumpeter Avishai Cohen. Tom Richards conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra. Show more
This week on The Verb Ian McMillan raises the curtain on playwriting with Steve Waters, Winsome Pinnock, Keisha Thompson and Liz Lochhead. Show more
Five audio-makers from around the world were invited to choose a card from the tarot deck as a creative prompt. The card at the heart of The Beach is The Fool. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan explores musical roads less travelled, with free jazz musicians Peter Brötzmann and Han Bennink improvising in a forest and Quinta’s hand-built aeolian harp. Show more
Sigrid curates a playlist of reflective, calming and peaceful nordic sounds from the likes of Olafur Arnalds, Royksopp and Meridi. Show more
Downtime Symphony
Take time out with these meditative ambient and orchestral melodies
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
An hour of wind-down music to help you press pause and reset your mind. With chilled sounds of orchestral, jazz, ambient and lo-fi beats to power your downtime. Show more
Through the Night
Clara Schumann, Chopin, Bach and Paderewski from Wartburg Castle
4 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Violinist Piotr Plawner, cellist Isabella Klim and pianist Piotr Salajczyk play works by Clara Schumann, Chopin, Bach and Paderewski. John Shea presents. Show more
