Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. 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 Doreen Carwithen's life as a film composer in the 1940s and 50s and the musical legacy she's left behind. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Highlights from the Verbier Festival 2022 (4/4)
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Sarah Walker concludes a week of highlights from the Verbier Festival with tenor Michael Fabiano singing arias by Tosti, Verdi and Puccini. Plus, Yefim Bronfman plays Chopin. Show more
Pianist Kirill Gerstein joins the Berlin Philharmonic to play Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, plus there's music by Mussorgsky, Liszt and Schulhoff. Show more
The Listening Service
Kurt Weill and The Threepenny Opera
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service takes a musical dive into the decadent sound world of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's epoque-making The Threepenny Opera.
Sean Rafferty is joined by chamber musicians from IMS Prussia Cove, which celebrates its 50th birthday this year, and pianist Samantha Ege also plays live. Show more
An eclectic mix featuring Robert Schumann, Rebecca Clarke, JS Bach and Dame Ethel Smyth among many others. Show more
Conductor Daniele Rustioni joins the Ulster Orchestra at the Ulster Hall in Belfast for a concert of works by Bacewicz, Bartók and Dvořák. Show more
This week we examine the sometimes painful process of drafting and redrafting. Joining Ian at the drawing board are Denise Mina, Toby Litt, Paul Tran and Polly Paulusma. Show more
In the last programme in a series celebrating the joys of Essex, surely the most maligned of counties, writer Gillian Darley explores the unsung delights of mid-Essex. Show more
Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from Nok Cultural Ensemble’s Edward Wakili-Hick, which explores the Afro-diasporic percussive traditions that inspire the collective. Show more
An hour of soothing orchestral music, piano, strings and soundtracks.
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
Arabella Steinbacher joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra for Mozart's Violin Concerto No 5, before the Orchestra takes centre stage in Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony. Show more
