Hannah French 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
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
Smetana decides to abandon his woes, his family and his homeland. What can he be thinking? Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Radio 3 New Generation Artists - Santiago Cañón-Valencia
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 8 months
Al Ryan presents Radio 3 New Generation Artists performing at St George's Bristol. Today, Spanish fire, Russian dance and French passion with cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia. Show more
Kyohei Sorita plays Brahms' first piano concerto, and there's music by Mozart, Debussy and Respighi. Show more
Katie Derham is joined by pianist Joanna MacGregor, who performs live in the studio, and she chats to violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Shai Wosner. Show more
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including Britten's Cuckoo! for children's voices and Purcell sung by Iestyn Davies. Show more
Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Schumann's Symphony No. 2, and they're joined by Frank Peter Zimmermann for Elgar's Violin Concerto. Show more
Isabella Rosner, Jade Halbert, Danielle Dove, Rianna Norbert-David join Shahidha Bari to look at the history of stage costumes, embroidery, Jewish tailoring, second hand clothes Show more
Joanna Robertson celebrates the impact the views from her windows have on her life, an influence also felt by artists like writer Joseph Roth and painter John Constable. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Violinist Johan Dalene joins Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Daniel Harding in Bruch's 1st Violin Concerto; plus Strauss's Ein Heldenleben. Jonathan Swain presents Show more