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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Hannah French plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod delves into Arthur Sullivan’s early musical inspirations and training. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, Finnish string quartet Meta4 play a programme dating from the Baroque (Purcell), via Beach and Barber, to the present day with Krishna Nagaraja's Stringar. Show more
Jakub Hrůša and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform Dvořák's Ninth Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic, Stravinsky, the Ulster Orchestra, Ethel Smyth, plus music from Latin America. Show more
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Accordionist Ryan Corbett dazzles in Bach's English Suite No 2 in A minor, and 20-year-old violinist María Dueñas introduces a jazzy new sonata from New York. Show more
Katie Derham with tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Dylan Perez, and London Children’s Ballet director Ruth Brill and choreographer Gavin McCaig. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.
The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra play Shostakovich's Scherzo and remarkable First Symphony, and Hilary Hahn joins them for Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 1. Show more
Join Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds for a calming musical journey inspired by fresh starts. Plus classical pianist Alice Sara Ott shares the song that brings her ultimate calm. Show more
Tom Service explores classical music's place in British society with guests including former culture minister Ed Vaizey and multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie. Show more
'Noted and famed for a comon drunckard and notorious swearer & blasphemer.' Thomas Weelkes wrote more Anglican service music for evensong than many of his fellow Tudor composers. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Mariam Batsashvili celebrates composer, singer and teacher Pauline Viardot with music from her circle of composer friends. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more