Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. 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 Franck approaching his sixties firing on all cylinders, producing a succession of his most original and enduring works. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
One Pianist, One Composer, at LSO St Luke's (4/4)
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Hannah French presents French pianist Bertrand Chamayou performing extracts from Liszt's Years of Pilgrimage, depicting his travels in Switzerland and Italy. Show more
Live from MediaCity, Salford, the BBC Philharmonic perform Prokofiev's In the Palace, from Cinderella, Respighi's Botticelli Triptych and Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve suite. Show more
The Listening Service
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune: Half Man, Half Myth, All Debussy
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service plunges into the heady sound world of the Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. Show more
Pianist Stephen Hough and tenor Nicky Spence perform live in the studio, and soprano Julia Bullock talks about her new album Walking in the Dark. Show more
Music of innocence and experience, inspired by the poems of William Blake. With music by Liszt, Michael Price, Bernard Herrmann, Purcell, Tavener, Verdi, Shostakovich and Pärt. Show more
Clemens Schuldt, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jennifer Pike pair Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending with a Deborah Pritchard premiere inspired by east European larks. Show more
Ian McMillan explores ghostly presences and phantom predecessors, literary or not, in poetry and stories. With David Constantine, Denise Riley, Clare Shaw and Andrew Taylor. Show more
Writer and artist Amanda Thomson shares her close observations of the natural world in Abernethy Forest in the Scottish Highlands, and how this relieves personal stress. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan gets ready for the winter with an eclectic selection of warming tracks, including Carla Del Forno's oneiric melodies and the sampledelica of Jonathan Scherk. Show more
Sigrid curates a playlist of loud Tearjerkers for the ultimate feels, featuring Henri Vieuxtemps, Daphni and The 1975. Show more
Downtime Symphony
Celeste’s weekly pick of tracks to recharge mind and body
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
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. Show more
The RAI National Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Axelrod perform Mendelssohn's joyful 'Italian' Symphony No 4, alongside orchestral music from renowned Italian operas. Show more
