Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Refresh your morning with classical music
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for 9 months
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise. Show more
Donald Macleod talks to multi-instrumentalist and composer Sir Karl Jenkins on the eve of his 80th birthday, today exploring his hugely successful 'mass for peace' The Armed Man. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
La Roque-d'Anthéron Piano Festival - Liszt's Years of Pilgrimage Book II
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 9 months
La Roque-d'Anthéron International Piano Festival - Liszt's Années de pèlerinage Book II: Italy, played by Jean-Frédéric Neuburger. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Jongen's Symphonie concertante
3 hours, 1 minute
on BBC Radio 3Available for 9 months
Organist Iveta Apkalna plays Jongen's epic Symphonie concertante, and there's a chance to hear Philip Glass' Double Concerto for violin and cello. Show more
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Half an hour of the finest classical music
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 9 months
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 9 months
Ludovic Morlot conducts the BBC SSO in Romantic music by Puccini, Tchaikovsky and Roxanna Panufnik. Plus, Boris Giltburg joins for Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto. Show more
Kate Lister who runs the Whores of Yore online site, Bill Yarber from the Kinsey Institute and Anne Hanley from Birmingham's Institute of Applied Health Research join Matthew Sweet. 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 with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
A fresh musical take on The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari heads up a selection of the best new genre-defying music, presented by Elizabeth Alker. Show more
Martha Argerich joins Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and conductor Renaud Capuçon in Schumann's piano concerto. Danielle Jalowiecka presents. Show more
