Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites. Show more
Chávez raises the next generation of Mexican composers - then leaves Mexico behind. Donald explores Chávez's legacy through the music of his students. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
A taste of chamber music from the Edinburgh International Festival
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
A selection of chamber music from the Queen's Hall, performed at the 2023 Edinburgh International Festival, including a new work for string quartet by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Show more
Ryan Bancroft conducts Tchaikovsky's orchestral masterpiece, his mighty Fifth Symphony, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Plus music by Vivaldi, Nielsen and Beach. Show more
The Listening Service
What's the Point of Symphonies?
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
What exactly is a symphony, and how can one written in the 18th century by Haydn have anything in common with one written today? Show more
Soprano Fatma Said and pianist Joseph Middleton, and clarinettist Julian Bliss accompanied by Michael McHale, join Sean Rafferty. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Classical music for focus or relaxation
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including Elgar, Shostakovich, JS Bach, Glazunov, Joanna Marsh, Handel and Grieg. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Edinburgh International Festival 2023
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Karina Canellakis conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Edinburgh Festival Chorus and soloists in music by Wagner, Scriabin and Rachmaninov. Show more
Ian McMillan explores the wave of new Irish writing emerging from both the north and south with Elaine Feeney, Martina Evans, James Conor Patterson and Prof Liam Harte. Show more
The Essay unearths the peoples of Iron Age Britain from warrior queens to Lindow Man. Poet Menna Elfyn senses the enduring presence of the Demetae in Carmarthen. Show more
Verity Sharp continues our month-long celebration of cassette culture with a unique commission from Dutch duo Goldblum plus reflections on tapes from Phew, Ata Kak and Felix Kubin. Show more
Ólafur Arnalds seeks the calm inside the storm with a selection of peaceful music inspired by rain, wind and thunder. Plus a stormy Safe Haven from composer Arooj Aftab. Show more
Happy Harmonies with Laufey
Stunning harmonies from film soundtracks
1 hour
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Laufey looks to the movies for this playlist of stunning harmonies. With tracks from Romeo and Juliet, Frozen and La La Land.
Violinist Johan Dalene joins the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner in Nielsen's Violin Concerto before John Adams's epic Harmonium. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
