Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Kate Molleson and Kevin Le Gendre explore the lives and music of revolutionary jazz power couple John and Alice Coltrane. Today - Alice’s grief sparks a new creative direction. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Essentially Strauss: Elena Urioste and Tom Poster
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster perform Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata in E flat, Op 18, alongside works by Luise Adolpha Le Beau and Fritz Kreisler. Show more
Giuseppe Mengoli conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Strauss's tone poem Ein Heldenleben, and Ensemble Polyharmonique perform sacred choral music. Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
Classical Mixtape
Half an hour of the finest classical music
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alpesh Chauhan are joined by singers Karen Cargill and Brenden Gunnell to perform music by Mahler and Strauss. Show more
Free Thinking
Ursula Le Guin and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
The influential writer Usula Le Guin (1929-2018) discussed by Matthew Sweet and guests Una McCormack, Naomi Alderman, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, Sophie Scott Brown and Kevan Manwaring. Show more
Poet Kate Davis explores the way Thomas Hardy's poem Afterwards has influenced her way of being. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
As the nights draw in, Elizabeth Alker shares ambient and experimental music to keep the darkness at bay, from the likes of Grouper, Lisa Lerkenfeldt and Makoto Nomura. Show more
The RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra perform music by Samuel Barber including his evocative Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with soprano Theresa Plut. Presented by Danielle Jalowiecka. Show more
