Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises. Show more
Chávez returns to his homeland. Given charge of Mexico's first permanent orchestra and appointed director of the National Conservatoire, this is Chávez's chance to make changes. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The Castalian String Quartet at the Edinburgh International Festival
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
From the Edinburgh Festival 2023, the Castalian String Quartet perform Beethoven's String Quartet No 13 in B flat, Op 130, in a version including the original Grosse Fugue. Show more
Max Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, in a new recording from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Plus music by Vivaldi and John Tavener. Show more
From St Eustachius Church, Tavistock, during the Exon Singers Festival for the Eve of Holy Cross Day, with music by King John IV of Portugal, Sarah Rimkus and Dobrinka Tabakova. Show more
Conductor Gavin Sutherland talks to Sean Rafferty about the English National Ballet's new production Our Voices, and violinist Esther Abrami performs live in the studio. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Expand your horizons with classical music
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including music by Clara Schumann, Orlando di Lasso and Augusta Holmès. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic at the Edinburgh International Festival
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Oslo Philharmonic in Sibelius's Symphony No 7, Mahler's Symphony No 4 and Gupta's Epilogue from Earth’s Song at the 2023 Edinburgh International Festival. Show more
Free Thinking
Queer history, new narrative in San Fransisco
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Naomi Paxton and guests discuss experimental writing by Dodie Bellamy, Kathy Acker and Kevin Killian, provocative essays by Merle Miller and Virginia Woolf and art by Judith Scott. Show more
The Essay unearths the peoples of Iron Age Britain from warrior queens to Lindow Man. Melanie Giles describes the chariot burials that distinguish the Parisi of East Yorkshire. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Sol Gabetta plays Bloch with the Oslo Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Klaus Mäkelä. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
