Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Classical soundtrack for your morning
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for 11 months
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Kate Molleson is joined by Kevin Le Gendre to explore the lives and music of revolutionary jazz power couple John and Alice Coltrane. Today - John’s big break is in jeopardy. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, the celebrated violinist leads her quartet in Mozart's 'Dissonance' Quartet and Janacek's String Quartet No 2, 'Intimate Letters'. Show more
The Hong Kong Philharmonic perform Brahms's Symphony No 3, the RIAS Chamber Choir sing Brahms sacred works, plus new recordings from the BBC performing groups. Show more
New Generation Artists
Geneva Lewis plays solo music by Biber
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 11 months
Chamber music from Radio 3's New Generation Artists: Geneva Lewis performs the hauntingly beautiful Passacaglia by Biber for solo violin, and pianist Tom Borrow plays Chopin. Show more
Violinist Francesca Dego performs live in the studio. And French conductor Laurence Equilbey and visual artist Mat Collishaw talk to Sean Rafferty. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Power through with classical music
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 11 months
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
Radio 3 in Concert
Alicia de Larrocha plays Mozart and Granados at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in 1984
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 11 months
The legendary pianist Alicia de Larrocha plays Mozart and Granados in Amsterdam in 1984 and the Cererols Choir sings Guerrero's Mass for the Dead in Barcelona's Gothic Cathedral. Show more
Music Matters
Bertrand Chamayou; Michael Barenboim
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service speaks to the pianist Bertrand Chamayou about his new album, and violinist Michael Barenboim explains why the West-Eastern Divan orchestra is more important than ever. Show more
Drummer Eric Hippolyte explores the djembe’s legacy from the 12th Century to today, with teacher and drum maker Souleymane Compo. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Through the Night
Khachaturian, Rachmaninov and Mussorgsky
6 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for 11 months
A concert given by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra featuring Anna Vinnitskaya as the soloist in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Danielle Jalowiecka presents. Show more
