Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Refresh your morning with classical music
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites. Show more
Kate Molleson invites us to join Georg Frideric Handel on five summer soirees from across his life. Today, the arcadian idyll where Handel was composer-in-residence. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Haydn Plus: Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton perform a recital of songs by Haydn and his contemporaries, recorded at LSO St Luke's in London in 2021. Hannah French presents. Show more
François Xavier-Roth conducts Les Siècles at the Proms in music by Ligeti and Mozart, plus operatic Wagner in Berlin. Show more
Conductor Marin Alsop talks to Katie Derham ahead of the Last Night of the Proms, and the BBC Singers perform live before their concerts at the BBC Proms.
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including soothing favourites by Ravel, Ireland and Fauré. Show more
Live at the BBC Proms: Rufus Wainwright joins the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Sarah Hicks in a twenty year anniversary symphonic version of his album Want One. Show more
Sunday Feature
I Arrive without Leaving - The Story of Women Surrealist Poets
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza tells the little-known story of the early women surrealist poets and writers and how they shaped the surrealist movement. Show more
Nitin Sawhney, composer and musician, on the origins, evolution and nature of Beethoven’s genius. Show more
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Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
Mezzo-soprano Isabel Pfefferkorn sings Fauré's La Bonne Chanson at the 2022 Meiringen Music Festival in Switzerland. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more