Breakfast
Wednesday - Petroc's classical alternative
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Scarlatti takes legal action to assert his independence and makes a decisive change of direction. We follow him to a new start in far-away Portugal. Presented by Kate Molleson. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
2023 Hay Festival – Schubert Plus with Soraya Mafi and Ian Tindale
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Sarah Walker presents Schubert Plus, performed by Soraya Mafi and Ian Tindale at Hay Festival, with works by Schubert, Schumann, Wolf and others. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Yulianna Avdeeva plays Prokofiev
2 hours, 1 minute
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Yulianna Avdeeva performs Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic play Arthur Sullivan, plus madrigals from Gesualdo. Show more
From the Chapel of Keble College, Oxford, on the Feast of the Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth, with music by Britten, Stanford, Górecki and Peeters. Show more
Katie Derham with clarinettist Daniel Ottensamer and conductor John Wilson, plus soprano Sophie Bevan, tenor Benjamin Hulett and baritone Simon Butteriss perform live. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, featuring a romance by Schumann, a canzonetta by Pejačević, a film score by Rota, and an iconic aria by Handel. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Philharmonia play Stravinsky and Prokofiev
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Philharmonia in Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka and Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije Suite. Esther Yoo plays Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto. Show more
Recorded with an audience at the Hay Festival, Rana Mitter and his guests look at recent European history, fault-lines and what it means to have to leave your country. Show more
Charles Aznavour's astonishing oeuvre, explored through five classic songs. 3: Après l'amour. Paul Morley attempts to confine himself to one lyric adventure. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Pianist Imogen Cooper plays works by Chopin, Schubert and Ades. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
