Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with new discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod surveys the life of nineteenth century French composer Mel Bonis, with a focus today on two dates , both of which would mark significant events, 1881 and 1883. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The Doric String Quartet in Haydn and Beethoven
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
From Wigmore Hall, the Doric Quartet play Haydn's Prussian Quartet in F, 'Dream', and Beethoven's early Quintet in C, for which they are joined by Brett Dean on viola. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Monday - Sibelius's Third Symphony from Switzerland
2 hours, 31 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of performances from across Europe, including music by Grieg, Holst, Rehnqvist and Wagner, and Sibelius's Third Symphony from Switzerland. Show more
New Generation Artists
María Dueñas shimmers in Chausson's Poème
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Violinist María Dueñas plays Chausson's Poème, pianist Tom Borrow performs Chopin and baritone Konstantin Krimmel sings Schubert. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to the King's Singers and Fretwork who celebrate Byrd and Weelkes, to Mathieu Romano for some vocal Stravinsky, and to the Piatti Quartet who perform live. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with wistful folk music and a jazzy take on an operatic classic. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Mahler's Song of Lamentation and Songs on the Death of Children
1 hour, 44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
The Vienna State Opera's Von der Liebe Tod - a moving celebration of Gustav Mahler's gift for song, combining his early Das klagende Lied with his later Kindertotenlieder. Show more
2022 Forward Prize-winning poet Kim Moore and Edinburgh-based violinist and composer Daniel Pioro join Elizabeth Alker at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge. Show more
The latest news and features from the classical music world, including news of the Celtic Connections Festival 2023. Show more
Legendary broadcaster James Burke reveals connections between his twin passions - science and music. In this essay, he links organisms that might not exist to a freemason’s opera. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a late-night mix of music exploring the colour yellow, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Concerto Copenhagen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, perform cantatas by JS Bach at the 2022 Copenhagen Baroque Festival. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
