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 8 months
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod talks to multi-instrumentalist and composer Sir Karl Jenkins on the eve of his 80th birthday, today focusing on his immersion in jazz fusion. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
La Roque-d'Anthéron Piano Festival - Kevin Chen
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 8 months
La Roque-d'Anthéron International Piano Festival: Kevin Chen, aged 20, plays Liszt's Réminiscences de Norma and Chopin's Op 10 Etudes in a recital that took the festival by storm. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
3 hours, 1 minute on BBC Radio 3
Available for 8 months
Virtuoso Fedor Rudin plays and conducts Mendelssohn's sunny, romantic Violin Concerto with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. There's also music by Bach, Beethoven and Britten. 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 including music by Thomas Ades and Max Richter. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Brahms and Prokofiev from the London Symphony Orchestra
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 8 months
Live at the Barbican: the London Symphony Orchestra plays Prokofiev's Fourth Symphony and Simon Trpčeski joins them for Brahms‘s Second Piano Concerto. Show more
Matthew Sweet assesses Darwin's arguments about the human species, sex and race with Christine Yao, Joe Cain and Ruth Mace from University College, London. Show more
From the puffed up and overpraised, to those he thinks may have been unfairly discounted, Ian Sansom imagines he's writing to some key figures from modern literary history. 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
Tchaikovsky and Elena Langer from Stockholm
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
Available for 8 months
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Anna Rakitina, in works by Tchaikovsky and Elena Langer. Danielle Jalowiecka presents. Show more