Mark Forrest

Expect more than a sprinkling of appropriate pieces for March 15th 2026, plus a celebration of live music and those who make it with tributes to a couple of winners at the recent RPS Awards. Grab a croissant and a coffee and come and join us @BBCRadio3 Sunday Breakfast 6.30 to 9

@skyshadowudall @SinfoniaOfLondn @glasshouseicm @BBCRadio3 That's right. For Monday 23rd March bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@ForrestMark @SinfoniaOfLondn @glasshouseicm Are you there to host for @BBCRadio3 ?

No relaxing for two of last night's #rpsawards winners (conductor John Wilson and trombonist Peter Moore) on the platform rehearsing for this evening's concert @SinfoniaOfLondn @glasshouseicm And that's Alexandre Kantorow playing the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3

Bye bye spring.

We’re enjoying a lazy, hazy afternoon on Cuckoo Hill gazing skyward and listening back to last night’s celestial extravaganza bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Sunday Breakfast on the first day of meteorological Spring - daffodils photographed in my sister's village in Yorkshire. And for St David's Day a sprinkling of Welsh melodies and performers as we explore our Welsh connections. Mine is a North Wales blacksmith @BBCRadio3 6.30-9am

Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 in rehearsal with the soloist Tom Borrow and Vasily Petrenko conducting @royalphilorch @glasshouseicm The virtuoso runs, the octaves, the massive orchestral chords, the passion, the drama. It's all here @BBCRadio3 In Concert 7.30pm this evening.

Sunday Breakfast will pick some winners for BAFTA Film Awards day and as half term holidays end (or begin) we'll recall family school holiday traditions. In my case fighting for the Frosties from the once a year Variety Pack. See you @BBCRadio3 from 6.30am to 9am

Snow lingers back home but here at the BBC studios in Leeds it's postively spring like so let's match the mood. Alexander Gavrylyuk plays 'the piano concerto with all the best tunes', the Grieg, then Mahler's Fifth with Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw @BBCRadio3 1-4pm

They’re crossing the River Swale on this morning’s walk. We’ll cross the North Sea to hear the Rotterdam Philharmonic play Mozart’s great orchestral masterpiece Symphony No.39. Plus Beethoven’s monumental Archduke Trio. Classical Live from Salford ⁦@BBCRadio3⁩ 1-4pm

Sub zero temperatures, snow and ice en route from the Yorkshire Dales to Salford but now armed with caffeine Classical Live is good to go. Join me for an early Mozart Piano Concerto, a musical portrait of Cyrano de Bergerac and a Beethoven chamber music gem @BBCRadio3 from 1pm

First day back on the bench for her and sunshine too over the BBC studios in Leeds where Classical Live prepares to bring you concert recordings of Beethoven’s energetic Symphony No.2 and Prokofiev’s dreamily poetic Violin Concerto No.1 See you @BBCRadio3 1pm - 4pm

Sunshine this morning to chase away the snow in the Yorkshire Dales. See you in Leeds for live concert recordings equally dramatic 1-4pm Classical Live ⁦@BBCRadio3⁩

Breakfast back at Salford this morning joined by the massed ranks of runners setting off on a half marathon. So expect music that's suitably motivational plus a track or two for you if bed to kitchen to the sofa will be about it for today's exercise. See you 6.30-9am @BBCRadio3

Breakfast is live from our Newcastle studios as we're with @royalphilorch @glasshouseicm later. Drop in this morning for a hand picked selection of the finest classical music and a contemplation of the bravery of today's Luge competitors at Winter Olympics @BBCRadio3 until 9am

It's Classical Live from rain drenched Leeds. Let's escape to Cardiff Bay with @BBCNOW for the swaggering Piano Concerto No.1 by Prokofiev plus Stanford’s dignified Elegaic Ode. Rather than a soaking photo from W Yorks here are sunnier times in the Dales. See you 1pm @BBCRadio3

Today Classical Live has Beethoven Chamber music, Britten’s unsettling Violin Concerto and an exploration of the music of Cipriano Potter. Join me in our Leeds studio with a view of the bus station and the Coastliner, the UK's most picturesque bus route IMHO @BBCRadio3 1pm -4pm

Let's visit Victoria Hall, Hanley with Anna Lapwood at the organ console for the work Saint-Saëns called his greatest symphonic achievement. And then to Birmingham to hear Schumann's fresh and compelling Violin Sonata No.1. And so much more. Classical Live @BBCRadio3 from 1-4pm

I'm west of the Pennines today @BBCRadio3 HQ in Salford. The temperatures are hovering just above freezing and the yellow snow and ice warnings are back so let's hunker down with a double dose of Shostakovich. A brooding 10th symphony and a joyful piano concerto 2 @BBCNOW 1-4pm

Hello from Leeds. Classical Live takes you to Hoddinot Hall for music from @BBCNOW Among today's treats Franck's ambitious symphonic poem Psyche and Beethoven's magnificent 5th. And @annalapwood fires up the organ of St. Sebald, Nuremberg for film favourites @BBCRadio3 1-4pm