Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Tom Poster, Essential flute music
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod considers how Nielsen’s years of crisis led him to create his Fifth Symphony. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall in London. Danny Driver plays Schumann's brilliant Etudes symphoniques, an intriguing sonata by CPE Bach and a selection of pieces from Ligeti's Etudes. Show more
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Britten and Shostakovich, live from City Halls in Glasgow. Show more
Katie Derham talks to the German soprano Diana Damrau and pianist Samson Tsoy. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
Radio 3 in Concert
Oxford Lieder Festival 2020: Connections Across Time
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Musicians from this year's Oxford Lieder Festival, perform live from BBC Maida Vale studios, including Ashley Riches and Sholto Kynoch in Schumann's great song-cycle, Dichterliebe. Show more
Free Thinking
Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
New critical biographies of Plath and Heaney and a reissue of Anne Sexton's poems prompt a conversation about the poetic life. Plus Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's new novel. Show more
In 1819, John Keats wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language. Sasha Dugdale explores Ode to a Nightingale. Show more
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening.
Elizabeth Alker with writer Helen Mort and musician Sophie Cooper as part of the spoken word festival 'Contains Strong Language'. Show more
A chamber music concert from the festival held in a Swiss mountain village. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
