Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3’s award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Refresh your morning with classical music
3 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 4 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 from the 2024 Hay-on-Wye Festival plus orchestral piano music by Britten from Ulster
1 hour, 58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for 4 months
Tom McKinney with the best performances from the UK and beyond, including from the 2024 Hay Festival, Luise Le Beau's Piano Quartet with the Leonore Piano Trio and Lawrence Power. Show more
Live from York Minster with music by Lucy Walker, Judith Bingham, Annabel Rooney, Bairstow and Warren. Show more
Gibbons - firmly established at the Jacobean Court - joins the new musical group formed by the Prince of Wales, the future Charles I. Show more
Anthony Negus talks to Sean Rafferty about the upcoming Ring Cycle from Lonborough Festival Opera. Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and lutist Toby Carr perform live in the studio. Show more
Simon Rattle conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, a starry international cast and massed choirs in a performance of Schoenberg's early 20th-century epic, Gurrelieder. Show more
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Jackson Pollock, who like others took to wearing T-shirts in postwar America, and the part his artist wife Lee Krasner played in his success. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Soweto plays a tune to mark the passing of saxophonist David Sanborn. Show more
Swedish Radio Choir and conductor Fredrik Malmberg perform Bach's Cantata BWV 140 and Mass in G, BWV 236 from Oscar's Church, Stockholm. Penny Gore presents. Show more