Today 09:30 - 13:00
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Today 09:30 - 13:00
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Today 13:00 - 15:00
Compelling exclusive concert performances including Martha Argerich performing Beethoven's 2nd Piano Concerto and Marc-Andre Hamelin playing transcriptions of Wagner.
Today 15:00 - 16:00
Live from Westminster Abbey, with an introit written especially for the service by John Rutter on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Today 16:00 - 17:00
3/5. Rodrigo returns to his homeland.
Today 17:00 - 19:00
Petroc Trelawny is joined for live music in studio by tenor Roderick Williams and Chriss Glynn with James MacMillan to promote the series of concerts at the Cumnock Tryst.
Today 19:00 - 19:30
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music by your favourite composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Korngold.
Today 19:30 - 21:45
The BBC Singers and conductor Martyn Brabbins perform the world premiere of John Pickard's new work for choir, harp and percussion from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.
Today 21:45 - 22:00
Author and psychotherapist Philippa Perry goes to Treloars school in Hampshire to find out how music therapy can help young people with complex physical disabilities.
Today 22:00 - 23:30
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Today 23:30 - 00:30
Joe Bataan has another album to share from his collection for 4/4, and tonight he chooses a record by a Puerto Rican master of Latin music.
Tomorrow 00:30 - 06:30
Benjamin Appl and Jorge Viladoms perform a song recital dedicated to the composer and cellist Pau Casals, and the soprano Victoria de los Angeles.
Tomorrow 06:30 - 09:30
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Tomorrow 09:30 - 13:00
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Tomorrow 13:00 - 16:00
Compelling exclusive concert performances including the Philharmonia Orchestra performing Shostakovich's 'Leningrad' Symphony and Bach piano transcriptions from Alexandre Tharaud.
Tomorrow 16:00 - 17:00
4/5. National and personal tragedy inspire Rodrigo's most famous work.
Tomorrow 17:00 - 19:00
Matthew Wadsworth plays his theorbo live in the studio.
Tomorrow 19:00 - 19:30
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including works by Bach, Tsfasman, Spain-Dunk, Schubert, Wiseman and Chopin.
Tomorrow 19:30 - 21:45
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform with Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth and violinist Daniel Lozakovich, live from City Halls in Glasgow.
Tomorrow 21:45 - 22:00
Stroke rehabilitation is the focus of this episode of 'How Music Heals'. Psychotherapist Philippa Perry meets a music therapist who uses neuroscience to retrain the brain.
Tomorrow 22:00 - 23:30
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Tomorrow 23:30 - 00:30
All the week, Soweto has been joined by Latin Soul royalty Joe Bataan for our 4/4 feature.
Friday 00:30 - 06:30
The German Symphony Orchestra performs Elena Langer's opera suite after Mozart, 'Figaro gets a Divorce,' and Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony. Plus Bartók's 2nd Violin Concerto.
Friday 06:30 - 09:30
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Friday 09:30 - 13:00
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Friday 13:00 - 16:00
Mark Forrest showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including the City of Birmingham Symphony playing Saint-Saens and the Philharmonia Orchestra with Mussorgsky.
Friday 16:00 - 17:00
5/5. Rodrigo finally finds fame.
Friday 17:00 - 19:00
Petroc Trelawny takes In Tune to the Royal Highland Hotel in Inverness for a special highland party with live music from Julie Fowlis, Karen Marshalsay and a local Gaelic choir.
Friday 19:00 - 19:30
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
Friday 19:30 - 21:45
Karen Ni Bhroin conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in music from TV period dramas, including Bridgerton, Downton Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sanditon and others.
Friday 21:45 - 22:00
How can music help rebuild lives after complex trauma, psychosis or the experience of childhood abuse? Philippa Perry talks to a music therapist who specialises in this treatment.
Friday 22:00 - 23:30
It's All aboard! as Verity Sharp presents an eclectic selection of sonic odes to rail travel to mark 200 years since the first passenger railway journey in the UK.
Friday 23:30 - 00:30
For this Friday night edition of 'Round Midnight, Soweto shares concert highlights from innovative British saxophonist Trish Clowes.
Saturday 00:30 - 06:30
From the 2024 BBC Proms, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft play Schoenberg and Zemlinsky. Penny Gore presents.
Saturday 06:30 - 07:30
Hannah French presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Saturday 07:30 - 08:00
Join Petroc Trelawny for a musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment in national life: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.
Saturday 08:00 - 11:00
Tom Service with a musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.
Saturday 11:00 - 13:00
Tom McKinney with a musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.
Saturday 13:00 - 15:00
Elizabeth Alker continues the musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.
Saturday 15:00 - 17:00
Join Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny for a musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.
Saturday 17:00 - 18:00
Rounding off today's 200th anniversary celebrations of the birth of the modern railway, Jools is joined by record producer and railway enthusiast Pete Waterman.
Saturday 18:00 - 21:30
Verdi's Il Trovatore recorded at the Royal Opera House, conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, with star leads Rachel Willis-Sorenson and Michael Fabiano.
Saturday 21:30 - 22:30
Lopa Kothari selects new roots-based music. Plus, Mauritanian griot Noura Mint Seymali shares two tracks - one that she encountered on her travels and one that reminds her of home.
Saturday 22:30 - 00:30
Tom Service presents the latest music from the Hermes Experiment, plus the world premieres of Dai Fujikura's Ritual in Lucerne and Malika Kishino's Quinta materia in Witten.
Sunday 00:30 - 06:30
The Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under Tõnu Kaljuste presents a programme of Estonian music ranging from well known pieces by Arvo Pärt to a premiere by Allison Kruusmaa.
Sunday 06:30 - 09:00
Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Sunday 09:00 - 12:00
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, with a special Train Tracks twist!
Sunday 12:00 - 13:30
Michael Berkeley's guest is the actor and writer Richard Armitage.
Sunday 13:30 - 15:00
Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps Janacek's Sinfonietta in a musical landscape.
Sunday 15:00 - 16:00
Live from Westminster Abbey, with an introit written especially for the service by John Rutter on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Sunday 16:00 - 17:00
To tie in with Radio 3's Train Tracks celebration of 200 years of Britain's modern railway, Alyn Shipton presents a special train themed programme. Get In Touch jrr@bbc.co.uk.
Sunday 17:00 - 18:00
Hannah French hears about two 500-year old choir books recently brought back to life, looks ahead to festivals in Brighton, Tetbury & Salisbury and explores a raft of new recordings.
Sunday 18:00 - 19:15
A reflection on the changes from Saturday night to Sunday morning. Including music by Mendelssohn, Handel, Miles Davis and words by Graham Greene, Edith Nesbit and Charles Bukowski.
Sunday 19:15 - 20:00
The story of Braille music and its impact on blind musicians over the last 200 years.
Sunday 20:00 - 21:00
A complete performance of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.
Sunday 21:00 - 22:00
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Gillian delves into the quiet, late work of Luigi Nono.
Sunday 22:00 - 23:30
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Sunday 23:30 - 00:30
Elizabeth Alker with a late-night journey through new music from today's most exciting genre-defying artists.
Monday 00:30 - 06:30
Pablo Ferrández is the soloist in Schumann's Cello Concerto performed with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
Monday 06:30 - 09:30
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Monday 09:30 - 13:00
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Monday 13:00 - 16:00
Brahms's 2nd Viola Sonata live from Wigmore Hall with violist Lawrence Power and pianist Ryan Wigglesworth and Elgar and Beethoven from the Ulster Orchestra.
Monday 16:00 - 17:00
1/5. Donald Macleod explores the women who shaped Hector Berlioz's life and work. Today, his Ophelia - the love interest who was to have a fatal influence over his life.
Monday 17:00 - 19:00
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
Monday 19:00 - 19:30
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
Monday 19:30 - 21:45
In the Philharmonia Orchestra's 80th birthday season, principal conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali takes the helm in music by Ortiz, Beethoven and Saint-Saëns.
Monday 21:45 - 22:00
Composer Erland Cooper and storyteller Tom Muir take a late-night voyage to Hildaland - one of Orkney's vanishing islands and the summer home of the Finfolk.
Monday 22:00 - 23:30
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Monday 23:30 - 00:30
From Monday to Thursday this week, Soweto is joined by guitarist Jamie Leeming, who regularly works with fellow talented UK musicians including Alfa Mist and Tom Misch.
Tuesday 00:30 - 06:30
From the 2023 Schubertiade in Vilabertran, Spain, soprano Dorothea Röschmann and pianist Wolfram Rieger perform a programme of lieder by Schumann, Mahler and Wagner.
Tuesday 06:30 - 09:30
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Tuesday 09:30 - 13:00
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Tuesday 13:00 - 16:00
An afternoon of compelling performances including Brahms's Horn Trio from the Cowbridge Festival and Vaughan-Williams's folksong inspired Five Variants from the Ulster Orchestra.
Tuesday 16:00 - 17:00
2/5. Donald Macleod explores the women who shaped Hector Berlioz's life and work. Today, the rollercoaster ride of his engagement to a young pianist, Camille.
Tuesday 17:00 - 19:00
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
Tuesday 19:00 - 19:30
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
Tuesday 19:30 - 21:45
The virtuoso pianist Boris Giltburg plays a programme of Rachmaninov's Preludes, which are undisputed jewels of the piano repertoire, from tolling bells to flights of fancy.
Tuesday 21:45 - 22:00
Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands.
Tuesday 22:00 - 23:30
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Tuesday 23:30 - 00:30
Guitarist Jamie Leeming is back with a second Flowers pick of the week.
Wednesday 00:30 - 06:30
The RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra under Oscar Jockel plays Bach and Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony. Olivier Latry, organ and Petra Vidmar, timpani, join for the Poulenc concerto.
Wednesday 06:30 - 09:30
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Wednesday 09:30 - 13:00
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Wednesday 13:00 - 15:00
Shostakovich's masterly Piano Quintet from this month's Cowbridge Festival is just one of today's highlights alongside Stanford's 2nd Piano Concerto with Finghin Collins.
Wednesday 15:00 - 16:00
From the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge with members of the Rodolfus Choral Course.
Wednesday 16:00 - 17:00
3/5. Donald Macleod explores the women who shaped Hector Berlioz's life and work. Today, Berlioz finally lands the woman of his dreams, but can she live up to them?
Wednesday 17:00 - 19:00
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
Wednesday 19:00 - 19:30
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
Wednesday 19:30 - 21:45
The LPO launches its new season with a concert including music by George Benjamin, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven with pianist Yefim Bronfman.
Wednesday 21:45 - 22:00
Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands.
Wednesday 22:00 - 23:30
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Wednesday 23:30 - 00:30
Tonight Jamie Leeming has another artist that he admires and would like to highlight.
Thursday 00:30 - 06:30
Hungarian pianist Petra Somlai is the soloist with Concerto Stella Matutina in Beethoven's third concerto for the instrument in a concert given in Austria.