Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests, the Friday poem and Bach Before Seven in Berlin. 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 how Chopin’s relationship with George Sand came to a fractious end. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Consone Quartet play Haydn and late Mendelssohn
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
The Consone Quartet play Haydn String Quartet in D, 'Frog', and Mendelssohn's deeply moving String Quartet in F minor, written after the unexpected death of his sister Fanny. Show more
Ian Skelly rounds up his week of highlights from Bavaria with symphonies by Mozart and Strauss and with stormy music from Rossini and CPE Bach. Show more
The Listening Service
Handel's Messiah: Hallelujah!
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service lifts the lid on Handel's Messiah. Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians. Show more
In Tune’s specially curated mixtape, including haunting melodies from Judith Weir, Duke Ellington’s ‘Take the 'A' Train’ – and a trip to the movies with ‘Chicken Run’. Show more
The LPO is joined by the London Adventist Chorale, plus an exceptional team of soloists in a performance of Tippett's great wartime oratorio. Show more
Ian McMillan and the Poetry Book Club audience are joined by Douglas Dunn to discuss his debut collection Terry Street and his latest The Noise of a Fly. Show more
Actor Sophie Stone explores communication, performance and identity from her deaf perspective and experience. She discusses grief and emotion communicated through silence. Show more
Verity Sharp shares the fruits of our latest improvised collaboration session, between Ainu folk musician OKI and south London multi-instrumentalist and composer cktrl. Show more
Sigrid curates a playlist that is perfect for a good cry. Featuring Erik Satie, Solange and Hans Zimmer. Show more
Downtime Symphony
A soothing mix of classical, soul and jazz to soundtrack your downtime
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3
Celeste presents 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.
Pianist Louis Lortie joins clarinettist Paul Meyer and cellist Edgar Moreau in Fauré, Debussy and Brahms at the Pau Casals International Music Festival. Show more
