Petroc Trelawny 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 discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Kate Molleson explores György Ligeti's process for writing music, and a performer's view of the second set of piano études from guest Danny Driver. Show more
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Music from Alfven's ballet-pantomime The Mountain King with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Show more
Composer Erland Cooper, violinist Davina Clarke and her ensemble, with soprano Mary Bevan, join Sean Rafferty. And Keelan Carew shares his suggestions for the upcoming weekend. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Switch up your listening with classical music
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music by Halvorsen, Bach, York Bowen, Vivian Fung, Nigel Hess, Copland and Tchaikovsky. Show more
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Till Eulenspiegel by Strauss, Elgar's Second Symphony, and a brand-new concerto with cellist Laura van der Heijden as the soloist. Show more
The profound effects of losing our sense of smell, why historians should think more about the smells of the past, and some thoughts on sneezing from Montaigne and La Condamine. Show more
Seán Williams unpacks the mysteries and realities of a murder in Trieste in the 1760s which still informs ideas and mythologies about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex and death. Show more
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
Elizabeth Alker goes on a sonic wander through the folk horror genre, and author Benjamin Myers is in the Listening Chair. Show more
Pianist Christian Blackshaw joins the Casals Quartet for Dvorak's Piano Quintet No 2. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
