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 11 months
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod looks into Fauré's married life and his encounters with the music of Richard Wagner. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Bach Up Close at LSO St Luke's (1/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 11 months
Pianist Federico Colli plays Bach's Italian Concerto, the Fourth Partita, and Ferruccio Busoni's transcription of the Chaconne from Bach's Partita No 2 in D minor for solo violin. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra
3 hours, 1 minute on BBC Radio 3
Available for 11 months
Tito Muñoz conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Bartok's last masterpiece, his Concerto for Orchestra. Plus, music by Wagner and Schnittke. Show more
Soprano Francesca Chiejina and pianist Jocelyn Freeman perform live in the studio and chat to Sean Rafferty ahead of their recital at Oxford International Song Festival. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Power through with classical music
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 11 months
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including music by Bach, Prokofiev and Poulenc. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts Sibelius and Shostakovich
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 11 months
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Philharmonia in symphonies by Sibelius and Shostakovich, and Chopin Competition winner Seong-Jin Cho plays Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 1. Show more
Flower paintings made using AI, art from bottle tops, drawings of melted glaciers and the Nevada Museum of Art's Altered Landscape photograph collection, which inspired a symphony. Show more
Novelist and humourist Andrew Martin considers the decline of the lunch hour and the business lunch, and asks what we lose when we stop taking lunch seriously. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Lutry Temple in Switzerland hosts a concert of music by Rameau, Leclair, Mondonville and others, performed by Andrés Gabetta and his Gabetta Consort. Danielle Jalowiecka presents. Show more