Hannah French 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 3Available for years
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises. Show more
Donald Macleod chats to Errollyn Wallen, one of Britain’s most in-demand composers. Today is about her connection to Belize, and how her family and childhood influence her work. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Théotime Langlois de Swarte - a treasure trove of Baroque violin music
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Live from Wigmore Hall: the brilliant young French baroque violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and harpsichordist Justin Taylor unlock a treasure trove of the Baroque. Show more
Petr Popelka conducts the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra in Dvorak's Sixth Symphony. Plus, new recordings of Schubert from the Ulster Orchestra and Judith Weir from the BBC Singers. Show more
New Generation Artists
The Consone Quartet plays Mendelssohn
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
The period instrument Consone Quartet play Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E flat major, written when he was only 14, and Katharina Konradi sings his Auf Flügeln des Gesanges. Show more
Composer Isobel Waller-Bridge introduces new ballet The Limit at the Royal Opera House. Plus, live music in the studio from accordionist Ksenija Sidorova. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including works by Coates, Eleanor Daley, Tabakova, Prokofiev and Grieg. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Mendelssohn and Dvořák in Amsterdam
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Dalia Stasevska conducts the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Mendelssohn's Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and Dvořák's Eighth Symphony. Show more
Music Matters
Krystian Zimerman and Randall Goosby
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to two musicians at opposite ends of their careers: one of the world's great pianists, Krystian Zimerman, and the young superstar violinist Randall Goosby. Show more
Jewish-Hungarian Pal Hermann was 'the next Pablo Casals'. Now forgotten, this essay reflects on his arrest by the Gestapo and the extraordinary recovery of his surviving cello. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The RAI National Symphony Orchestra perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 6, conducted by Robert Treviño. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
