Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
The ideal morning mix of classical music
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for 8 months
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod meets Sir Karl Jenkins on the eve of his 80th birthday, today exploring his years of creativity in the advertising industry and the huge success of Adiemus. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
La Roque-d'Anthéron Piano Festival: Liszt's Years of Pilgrimage Book I
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 8 months
La Roque-d'Anthéron International Piano Festival - Liszt's Années de pèlerinage Book I, Switzerland, played by Tanguy de Williencourt. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Stravinsky's Danses concertantes
2 hours, 1 minute
on BBC Radio 3Available for 8 months
The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Fedor Rudin play Stravinsky's Danses concertantes. There's also music by Mozart, Beethoven Schubert and Gershwin. Show more
Live from Guildford Cathedral on Ash Wednesday with music by Weelkes, James MacMillan, Gregory May and Roxanna Panufnik. 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 a few musical dinosaurs and birds, dances from Russia, Scotland and Romania, and the Swingle Singers Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Bruckner's Third Symphony from Manchester
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 8 months
The BBC Philharmonic are joined by their Chief Conductor, John Storgards, for music by Bruckner and Beethoven, and settings by Saariaho of intriguing Finnish poetry by Eino Leino. Show more
Shahidha Bari traces the history, appeal and paradox of this most everyday luxury, with food writer Bee Wilson and historians Sean Williams, Caroline Dodds Pennock and Misha Ewen. 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.
Erin Helyard directs soloists and the Orchestra of the Antipodes in Buxtehude's seven passion cantatas, each dedicated the a different part of Christ's body on the cross. Show more
