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, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Franz Schubert’s life and work in the years after 1820, enjoying a sense of liberation after being shackled to the schoolroom. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Schwarzenberg Festival 2023 (1/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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The Pavel Haas Quartet begin a week of lunchtime concerts from Schwarzenberg in the Austrian mountains, with Schubert's String Quartet in G, D887. Show more
The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Rachmaninov's Second Symphony, plus music by Monteverdi from L'Arpeggiata. Show more
Sir James MacMillan joins us from Scotland, where he is conducting his Christmas Oratorio with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Plus, live music from the Chooi Brothers. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Join us for a journey from joyful exuberance to choral calm, with music by JS Bach, Carl Davis, Jocelyn Pook and John Tavener. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Celebrating Sir John Tavener
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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The BBC Singers, conducted by Daniel Hyde, mark the tenth anniversary of Sir John Tavener's death in a concert from King's College, as part of the Cambridge Music Festival. Show more
Susheila Nasta, Anthony Joseph and Guy Gunaratne join Shahidha Bari to discuss The Lonely Londoners, London-based literature, and Sam Selvon’s legacy in his centenary year. Show more
Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky (author of Deaf Republic) writes to the city of his birth. In Essay Two, he remembers his family's flight from Ukraine to the USA in 1993. 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
Wolf, Spohr and Beethoven from the Zermatt Music Festival in Switzerland
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
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The Scharoun Ensemble, Berlin, join forces with students from the Zermatt Music Festival Academy to perform music including Beethoven's Wind Sextet in E flat and Spohr's Nonet. Show more