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
Kate Molleson explores Stravinsky’s masks and myths, his love of rites and rituals. Today focusing on his neoclassicism – his turn to the past to make sense of the present. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Leeds International Concert Season (2/4)
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
Chamber music by Ibert, Tailleferre, Chopin, Debussy & Poulenc from the Leeds International Concert Season, including performances by the Orsino Ensemble and pianist Louis Lortie. Show more
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jac van Steen play Dvorak's dramatic and sometimes dark Symphony no.7 Show more
Choral Vespers live from Leeds Cathedral. Show more
Soprano Nadine Benjamin performs live in the studio ahead of ENO's production of Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid's Tale. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music by Praetorius, Salieri, Liszt, Gabriela Lena Frank, Puccini, Shostakovich, Forqueray and Holst. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
BBC Philharmonic: Hansel and Gretel
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
The BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis in Tippett's The Rose Lake, Beethoven's Eighth Symphony and a selection of music from Humperdinck's fairy-tale opera Hansel and Gretel. Show more
The Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams discusses religious belief and ritual with artist Gayle Chong Kwan and historian of Japan, China and the East, Chris Harding. Show more
The Essay
A Circumnavigation of the British Isles in Five Traditional Boats
Shetland Whillies, Yoals and Sixerns
14 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Shetland was part of the Kingdom of Norway. Brian Wishart reflects on the Norse influence still clear in the boats there, which come to points at both ends, like Viking longships. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Through the Night
Mendelssohn, Brahms and the premiere of Unsuk Chin's Alaraph 'Ritus des Herzschlags'
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for 9 months
Dutch piano duo and brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen perform Mendelsohn's Concerto for Two pianos with the Basel Symphony Orchestra. John Shea presents. Show more