Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Great classical music for your morning
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for 12 months
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod follows the budding musician to Paris, where he pursues his dream of devoting his life to music as a violinist and as a composer. Music includes his Cello Concerto. Show more
Baritone Roderick Williams, the Maxwell Quartet and pianist Christopher Glynn perform at this years Lammermuir Festival. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Carl Nielsen's Sinfonia espansiva
3 hours, 1 minute
on BBC Radio 3Available for 12 months
Soprano Liv Redpath and baritone Johan Reuter join the Danish National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No 3. Show more
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs live in the studio ahead of her concert with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Switch up your listening with classical music
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 12 months
A 30-minute soundscape of classical music with El Grillo by Josquin, a Beethoven piano sonata, Puccini's La Boheme, Bizet's Toreador song, Mahler's unfinished symphony, and more. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
The Consone Quartet in Haydn, Brahms and a haunting new work by Gavin Bryars
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 12 months
The Consone Quartet and friends play music by Haydn and Brahms and premiere cult composer Gavin Bryars's haunting sextet The Bridges of Königsberg. Show more
Shahidha Bari presents a discussion ranging from a spaceship-like sculpture to ideas about time in art on show in Ghana plus stories by Flora Nwapa and Ama Ata Aidoo. Show more
The story of an orphan made good, narrated by his disabled friend, became a best seller in 1856. New Generation Thinker Clare Walker Gore profiles the novelist and her core themes. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Through the Night
RAI National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirill Petrenko
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for 12 months
Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra and Sibelius's Lemminkäinen Suite performed by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kirill Petrenko. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
