Hannah French 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
Bizet finally has a hit on his hands, but tragedy lies just around the corner. Plus, we reach Carmen’s shocking finale. Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2023 (4/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Works by Beethoven, Howells and Prokofiev, performed at the 2023 Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music. Show more
The Berlin Philharmonic and Daniel Barenboim perform Brahms' Second Symphony, plus Dohnanyi from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and more Takemitsu from the BBC Philharmonic. Show more
Tom Service with a guide to music written for and performed at weddings.
With Sarah Walker, director Annilese Miksimmon reimagines an operatic Korngold, and curator MaryAnne Stevens and pianist Karim Kamar paint the music of modernity in art. Show more
Take time out with a carefully curated playlist of classical music, both old and new. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Into the Infinite: Messiaen and Mahler
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
The LSO’s artistic associate, Barbara Hannigan, conducts blissed-out visions of heaven from Mahler and Messiaen recorded at Barbican Hall, London Show more
Testament explores the sounds between words - including sighing and laughing - with guests Polar Bear, Jay Griffiths, Shirley May and John McAuliffe. Show more
Colin Grant asks who is black and who isn't? Interweaving autobiography and the story of politician Michael Manley, Colin wonders whether one can be white - and black? Show more
100 years ago the weather forecast became a daily radio broadcast. Late Junction offers up an esoteric collection of sound and music that forewarns, divines and predicts. Show more
Devonté Hynes puts a spotlight on the instrument he pulls the most from creatively, with a selection that includes Debussy, Nina Simone and Philip Glass. Show more
Tokio Myers presents a calming mixtape of piano sounds. Drift away with sounds from FKJ, Ravel and St. Vincent. Show more
Violinist María Dueñas joins NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and conductor Manfred Honeck in Bruch's First Violin Concerto and later Dvorak's New World Symphony. John Shea presents. Show more