Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3’s award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Classical soundtrack for your morning
3 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 5 months
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites. Show more
Classical Live
Music making from Denmark and the BBC Singers
2 hours, 58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 5 months
Tom McKinney showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including recordings from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Maier’s first years in Leipzig, as she established herself in musical society - and met a shy young composer who later became her husband: Julius Röntgen. Show more
Katie Derham is joined by the Chiaroscuro Quartet, and also by pianist Emmanuel Despax, all playing live in the studio.
Spend 30 minutes submerged in a glittering music soundscape, including works by Esenvalds, Debussy and Mozart. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Mendelssohn and Enescu Octets
2 hours, 14 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 5 months
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, the celebrated Belcea Quartet and Quatuor Ébène join forces for two dazzling teenage masterpieces: the string octets by Mendelssohn and Enescu. Show more
Archaeologist Rose Ferraby explores traces of the past in the British landscape. She delves into the peat of the Fens to unearth long-lost signs of time and change. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Brand new UK jazz with Soweto Kinch alongside gems from around the world. Show more
Cellist Julia Hagen joins the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada in Dvorák's Cello Concerto. John Shea presents. Show more