Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and two shortlisted entries from the Carol Competition. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise. Show more
Kate Molleson explores Vaughan Williams’s burgeoning friendships with Gustav Holst and Adeline Fisher, who became his first wife, and the first Christmases they spent together. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
LSO St Luke's: Saint-Saens's Circle (1/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
Hannah French presents the first in a series of Lunchtime Concerts devoted to Saint-Saens and his circle. Today, the Nash Ensemble play music by Saint-Saens and his pupil Faure. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents Sibelius's Violin Concerto, played by Ning Feng with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, plus more performances from pianist Yulianna Avdeeva. Show more
Flautist Brandon Patrick George performs live in the studio, and Sean Rafferty talks to mandolin player Avi Avital ahead of his concert at Wigmore Hall.
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
The BBC Singers, conducted by Sofi Jeannin, join the Britten Sinfonia and four outstanding soloists to perform Mozart’s compelling re-imagination of Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. Show more
Nandini Das, Tania Branigan, Halik Kochanski, Ed Yong, John Vallaint talk to Rana Mitter Show more
Professor Fiona Stafford explores the history and affection for our favourite puddings. Summer pudding - an English classic or a US invention as a health food? Surprises abound. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Through the Night
Andrea Bernasconi's L'Huomo at the Herne Early Music Days Festival
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
Ensemble 1700 under Dorothee Oberlinger perform the one-act tragicomedy commissioned by Princess Wilhelmine of Bayreuth based on her poem L'Homme, set to music by Bernasconi. Show more