Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Great classical music for your morning
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises. Show more
Offenbach’s expensive tastes and lavish generosity meant he had no choice but to compose - even as his fortunes grew, he went on spending more than he earned. Show more
From Edinburgh, the Armida Quartet play Mendelssohn's Capriccio for string quartet, and the SCO Chamber Ensemble with Maxim Emelyanychev on piano play Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet. Show more
Kurt Weill's Symphony No.1 with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra under Joana Mallwitz. Also, an organ recital with Balazs Szabo, who plays music by Juan Bautista José.Cabanilles. Show more
Live from St Paul’s Cathedral, London, for the Eve of the Conversion of St Paul, with music by Philips, Judith Bingham, Elgar, Ireland and Leighton. Show more
Composer Jonathan Dove speaks to Sean Rafferty ahead of the world premiere of his piece Odyssey, and pianist Leon McCawley plays live from his album Natural Connections. Show more
Enjoy half an hour of back-to-back classical music - the perfect way to wind down at the end of the day. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Death and Transfiguration
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
Karina Canellakis conducts the London Philharmonic in Strauss's Don Juan and Death and Transfiguration, and Cédric Tiberghien plays Ravel's Piano Concerto for the left hand. Show more
Chris Harding discusses the group of Japanese thinkers who used European philosophy to reinvigorate native Japanese and East Asian intellectual traditions. Show more
70 years since the first broadcast of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, five new dramatic portraits of different areas of Wales in 2024, starring Ruth Jones. New Quay by Menna Elfyn. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Through the Night
International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
The RAI National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Fabio Luisi perform music by the Jewish composers Arnold Schoenberg and Gustav Mahler. John Shea presents. Show more