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
Born and brought up in the English countryside, Elgar never felt comfortable in London, the heart of the nation's musical life. Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
Harpsichord virtuoso Mahan Esfahani performs Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, full of drama, alongside fanciful works by William Byrd, Jiri Antonin Benda and Viktor Kalabis. Show more
Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Alpesh Chauhan. Also, The Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi. Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Mahler's Third Symphony from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler's epic Third Symphony, a work which recounts the story of the Creation through to a final ode to divine love. Show more
Gerry Canavan, Nisi Shawl and Irenosen Okojie join Shahidha Bari to discuss Octavia Butler, the American who became the first science-fiction writer to gain a MacArthur Fellowship. Show more
Traditional Variety including the speciality arts of ventriloquism, animal acts and magic, brought to vivid life through the lens of writer Amanda Dalton’s childhood fascinations. Show more
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
Elizabeth Alker opens the door to new ambient and experimental sounds exploring ideas of home. Show more
The 75th Anniversary Gala Concert of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with conductor Eivind Aadland and Czech pianist Lukáš Vondráček. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
