Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
The ideal morning mix of classical music
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises. Show more
Donald Macleod investigates the origins of Berlioz’s flair for drama and how his imagination was set alight by great writers, past and present. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Esther Yoo plays violin sonatas by Debussy and Grieg
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Live from Wigmore Hall: brilliant young American violinst Esther Yoo is joined by pianist Jae Hong Park for Debussy's Violin Sonata and Grieg's popular Third Violin Sonata. Show more
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Schubert's Symphony No 6, and the BBC Philharmonic perform Anna Clyne's Abstractions. Show more
Bass William Thomas sings Saint-Saens and Loewe, accordionist Ryan Corbett plays from Tchaikovsky's Children's Album, and pianist Elizabeth Brauss performs Ravel's Sonatine. Show more
Katie Derham is joined by bassist and composer Gary Crosby and director and choreographer Suzy Willson. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Classical music for focus or relaxation
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including pieces by Rameau, Handel and Caroline Shaw. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Respighi's Roman Pines, Fountains and Festivals
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Iván Fischer conducts a tour of Rome through Respighi's three colourful tone poems – Pines, Fountains and Festivals of Rome – interspersed with Roman choral rarities by Liszt. Show more
Tom Service talks to Gavin Bryars, one of Britain's most influential composers, and to some of Philip Glass's closest friends about a new edition of his complete Etudes for piano. Show more
Rachel Cooke takes a wry and wide-ranging look at artistic disappointment, from a 19th-century artist upstaged by 'General Tom Thumb to empty book launches today. Show more
Night Tracks
Live: John Foxx's musical dreamworld
1 hour, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Hannah Peel with highlights from a special Night Tracks live event at Kings Place in London, featuring John Foxx, Maya Youssef, Ruisi Quartet, Shida Shahabi and Hatis Noit. Show more
Through the Night
2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
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The Isidore String Quartet play Brahms, Bartók and Beethoven. John Shea presents. Show more