Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and New Year, New Music. 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 chats to Max Richter, one of the world’s most in-demand composers. Today, a pivotal breakthrough in Max’s career and music on the theme of light. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Highlights from the Verbier Festival 2022 (1/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
In the first of this week’s highlights from the Verbier Festival 2022, Sarah Walker presents Yefim Bronfman playing Schumann and Bartok, and Augustin Dumay performing Beethoven. Show more
Ian Skelly presents a week of Afternoon Concert, today featuring Mao Fujita performing Schumann, and as soloist, Rachmaninov's ever popular Second Piano Concerto. Show more
New Generation Artists
Winter Showcase - Programme 10
1 hour, 14 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha sings Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Johan Dalene and friends play Mozart's Piano Quartet in G minor and Santiago Cañón-Valencia plays Ginastera. Show more
Lindsey Marshal and Richard Harrington are the readers in a programme that explores the mysterious link between wisdom and innocence. Show more
From the BBC Proms 2022, the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Daniel Harding, play Schnittke's Viola Concerto with Tabea Zimmermann and Bruckner's Symphony No 4, ‘Romantic’. Show more
Free Thinking
Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
On 9 January 1923, the New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield died from tuberculosis, aged 34. Biographer Claire Harman joins Kirsty Gunn and Laurence Scott. Show more
Convent-educated and lapsed Catholic Olivia O'Leary asks where all the Irish nuns have gone. In her second essay, Olivia describes their role in her education. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Antje Weithaas directs Camerata Bern in a programme of music by Suk, Janacek and Dvorak. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more