Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring your requests. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Refresh your morning with classical music
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise. Show more
Donald Macleod delves into a period when Humperdinck became an international celebrity because of his fairy-tale opera. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Schwarzenberg Festival 2023 (2/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
Radio 3’s week of lunchtime concerts from Schwarzenberg in the Austrian mountains, continues with Schubert’s Sonata in B flat, D960, played by Marc Andre Hamelin. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Schumann's Symphony 4 in D minor, Op 120
2 hours, 1 minute on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Schumann's Symphony No 4. Also, Ravel's Introduction and Allegro, and more Croatian folk music from the HRT Tamburitza Orchestra. Show more
Choral Evensong
St Paul's Church, Heaton Moor, Stockport
59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
From St Paul's Church, Heaton Moor, Stockport, with the Diocese of Manchester Choral Scholars, and music by Harris, Britten, Amy Bebbington and Bach. Show more
Folk duo Bryony Griffith and Alice Jones perform live in the studio and chat to Sean Rafferty about their UK tour and new album. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including pieces by Bach, Schubert and Bob Chilcott. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Mahler Symphony No. 1 'Titan'
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
Kerem Hasan conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's First Symphony, and Alina Ibragimova and Jesper Svedberg play the Brahms Double Concerto for violin and cello. Show more
Scientist, novelist, poet, philosopher, feminist, it's 400 years since the birth of Margaret Cavendish. Show more
The city of Leeds seen through public art - past, present and future. In her essay, Both Arms, Michelle Scally Clarke talks about the statue of that name by William Kenneth Armitage Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The Oslo Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra perform 'one of the most fascinating works out there', according to their chief conductor, Klaus Mäkelä. John Shea presents. Show more