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 familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises. Show more
Donald Macleod and William Lyons look at how churches in the Middle Ages used theatre to press home their Christmas messages. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Belfast International Arts Festival 2023 (1/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 12 months
From the Belfast International Arts Festival, Elisabeth Brauss performs Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat with the Chaos Quartet, who also play Mozart's String Quartet No 1 in G. Show more
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs Sibelius's Symphony No 5. Plus, brass music by Jonathan Bates and Peter Graham performed by the Wallberg Band. Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, with music from Robert Schumann, blind harpist Turlough O'Carolan, and the film soundtrack to Lord of the Rings. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Beethoven's Second Symphony and Rossini's Stabat Mater
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 12 months
Sir Mark Elder conducts a quartet of soloists, the Hallé Choir and Orchestra in Beethoven's Second Symphony and Rossini's Stabat Mater at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. Show more
Free Thinking
Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
On World Soil Day, Jade Munslow Ong looks at garden paintings from Antigua, Alexander von Humboldt, trees and soil research, and talks to the Sainsbury Centre Director Jago Cooper Show more
Geoff Andrews explores the ways in which EP Thompson's experiences as an adult education tutor were the making of The Making of the English Working Class. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Pianists Eric Le Sage and Albert Guinovart, clarinettist Paul Meyer and flautist Magali Mosnier are joined by other soloists in works by Poulenc, Saint-Saens and Guinovart. Show more