Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem. Email your requests to 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
Donald Macleod explores the end of Sibelius’s seven teetotal years in the context of the Finnish Civil War. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
LSO St Luke's: Jazz Inflections - Aleksey Semenenko
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 10 months
Hannah French presents Aleksey Semenenko and Inna Firsova in a concert of jazz-inspired music, from Ravel's blues-infused Violin Sonata to Heifetz's arrangement of Porgy and Bess. Show more
Penny Gore presents the Orchestre Consuelo in Beethoven's Symphony no.4 conducted by Victor Julien-Laferrière. Plus more from Vox Luminis at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Show more
Borrowed from the French, 'Pathétique' means to arouse great passion and emotion. Tom Service examines how this word applies to Tchaikovsky's monumental 6th and final symphony. Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Kahchun Wong conducts Shostakovich
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 10 months
The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Takemitsu's Requiem for Strings, Hosokawa’s Violin Concerto ‘Prayer’ with soloist Sayaka Shoji, and Shostakovich’s mighty Symphony No 5. Show more
Award-winning writers Helen Mort, Victoria Kennefick and Jon Ransom discuss things physical from birth to running, tattooing and the act of writing itself. Show more
Photographer Nan Goldin used the power of her fame, her art and personal experience to campaign against prescription opioids. Show more
Verity Sharp serves up two hours of piping-hot experiments in sound - with ecstatic church organ and haunting bagpipes, plus playful accordion and radio ghosts. Show more
Devonté Hynes shares music that he loves and and which helps him drift off into another world. The selection includes Franz Schubert, Sun Ra, Hiroshi Yoshimura and Alice Coltrane. Show more
Baby Queen mixes a soundtrack to take you to whole new dream worlds, featuring tracks from Garden Story, Caslevania, Grim Fandango and AGOS: A Game of Space. Show more
Through the Night
Strauss's Alpine Symphony and Burleske with Fabio Luisi
4 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for 10 months
Pianist Alessandro Taverna joins RAI National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Fabio Luisi in Richard Strauss's Burleske. Danielle Jalowiecka presents. Show more
