Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Great classical music for your morning
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
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 finds her musical and spiritual home. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Essentially Strauss: Notos Quartett
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
The Notos Quartett perform Strauss’s Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 13, and Mahler’s Quartet Movement for piano, violin, viola and cello in A minor.
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Afternoon Concert
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 3
2 hours, 32 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
Markus Poschner conducts the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony, and Ensemble Polyharmonique perform sacred choral music by Monteverdi. Show more
Tom Service explores the music and mystery of that humble, plastic and mass-produced schooldays favourite - the recorder. Show more
In Tune
Live music and news from the world of classical
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
A French double bill. Quatuor Agate and composer and pianist RIOPY perform live in the In Tune studio. Show more
A 30-minute soundscape of classical music, with pieces by Haydn, Bach and Clara Schumann. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
Recorded live in concert, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky's visceral masterwork The Rite of Spring, plus music by Pärt, Meredith and Niculescu. Show more
Ian McMillan presents a special extended interview with Irish novelist Colm Tóibín. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan explores the work of musicians who opt to let go of their creative control. Expect chance operations, aeolian harps and collaborations with AI! Show more
A selection of rich textures and warm instrumental sounds to help soothe your senses Show more
Through the Night
Hummel, Mozart, Donizetti and Gounod from Berlin
4 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
A chamber concert by members of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from Sailor's House at the Wannsee, Berlin. Danielle Jalowiecka presents. Show more