Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. 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 alongside new discoveries and musical surprises. Show more
Donald Macleod follows Polish pianist Maria Szymanowska as she strikes out on her own. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The Isidore String Quartet at the Edinburgh International Festival
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
From the Edinburgh International Festival, the Isidore String Quartet perform music by Felix Mendelssohn and Billy Childs. Show more
Ivor Bolton conducts Mozart's Symphony No 40, and there's more from Bach's Mass in B minor. Show more
Day two of Horatio Clare's immersive Sound Walk on Greenland's Arctic Circle Trail. Bringing to life sublime landscapes whilst exploring the development of Greenland's identity. Show more
BBC Proms 2023: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andris Nelsons for Gershwin’s Piano Concerto. Plus, Carlos Simon, Stravinsky and Ravel. Show more
New Generation Artists
Performances from Radio 3 New Generation Artists
1 hour, 14 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
Soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha sings Berlioz, Geneva Lewis plays Bach's Violin Partita No 3 and The Mithras Trio dazzle in a piano trio by the young Beethoven. Show more
Another chance to hear music by Rachmaninov, Dora Pejačević and Lara Weaver, performed by Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman, in Dewsbury, part of the 2023 BBC Proms. Show more
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson vividly recalls his quest to record wild voices heard in the darkness and isolation of a Northumberland moor. Show more
Unclassified
Unclassified Live: Erased Tapes x BBC Philharmonic at Fat Out Fest
1 hour on BBC Radio 3
Available for 10 months
Elizabeth Alker presents Erased Tapes label artists in collaboration with players from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the opening concert of Salford's Fat Out Fest. Show more
La florida Capella with soprano Federico Fiorio delight at the Herne Early Music Days festival in Germany with music from Venice to Vienna. Danielle Jalowiecka presents. Show more