Mark Forrest

Broadcaster, hill runner and sheep farmer @grintongoats' assistant

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

On Sunday Breakfast we've music for re-enactors at Carlisle Castle, we're rediscovering recordings by a legendary clarinettist from South Shields and there's a cautionary tale for anyone considering a 'group' holiday @BBCRadio3 6.30am - 9am

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

This afternoon the fifth of the ten exceptional living conductors under the spotlight is Riccardo Muti. Hear him with the Vienna Philharmonic and Bruckner’s monumental and symphonic F minor Mass plus the stormy and emotional Fourth symphony by a teenage Schubert @BBCRadio3 1-4pm

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Let the celebration of 125 years of music making at Wigmore Hall begin; the Modigliani and Leonkoro Quartets play Mendelssohn's Octet. Plus exclusive concert performances from the most exciting conductors working today starts with Susanna Mälkki and Sibelius @BBCRadio3 1-4pm

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

On a sunny Bank Holiday weekend Breakfast celebrates spring blossom and wild flower meadows brought to life in the May sunshine and the music of composers from Anthony Holborne to Max Bruch. There's Gershwin in Paris and these beauties in the back garden @BBCRadio3 6.30-9am

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Breakfast is live from the BBC's studios in Newcastle ahead of a concert this afternoon at the Glasshouse Gateshead. Join us there for Haydn's Creation. And we'll reflect on the glittering career in the fields of both opera and song of Dame Felicity Lott 6.30-9am @BBCRadio3

[Sam Jackson @classicjacko]

Very sad news, about a remarkable artist: https://t.co/BgpMZCLPFt

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Come with me to Usher Hall, Edinburgh for a proud and defiant Brahms 4 from @BBCSSO and to Victoria Hall, Hanley where @BBCPhilharmonic served up a stylish and ambitious Brahms Double Concerto. Finally French Baroque dance in Grieg's Holberg at Tonhalle Zurich @BBCRadio3 1-4pm

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

@stephenkeeler @BBCSSO @BBCPhilharmonic @BBCRadio3 Good spot - thanks Stephen.

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Today Classical Live will take you to Aberdeen Music Hall for the Brahms symphony described as 'musically the most perfect.' Then to Hay for Ravel's alluring & dramatic Piano Trio and finally Stockholm's German Church for a Vivaldi tribute to the viola d'amore. 1-4pm @BBCRadio3

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Classical Live transports you to Rome for an energetic Brandenburg 5 from Accademia Bizantina, to Holy Cross Parish Church, Cowbridge to hear a passionate string quartet by Fanny Mendelssohn. Finally Brahms powerful First Symphony in Swansea with BBC NOW @BBCRadio3 1pm to 4pm

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Sunday Breakfast enjoys one of David Attenborough's finest series from 2015, reflects on the first day of the Highland Games 2026 and persuades you to love the 1990s most ubiquitous ring tone. Immerse yourself in the music 6.30am - 9am @BBCRadio3

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Breakfast @BBCRadio3 marks International Dawn Chorus Day with Rossini, Howells and Caroline Shaw in praise of the magpie, nightingale and swallow respectively. I'm at R3 in Salford and a little bit far from home for a live DC update so here's yesterday morning's 0639 offering.

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Here's this spring's first cuckoo flower happy in the back garden while its winged namesake arrived back from Africa to our Yorkshire Dale as it always does on St George's Day this week. I'll celebrate that and the Proms 2026 launch on Sunday Breakfast @BBCRadio3 6.30-9am

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Fifth bird on the list always arrives on St. George’s Day.

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Warm up for the Manchester Marathon with a Rodrigo Concerto for 4 guitars. Or for a more leisurely start to the day let me tempt you with a luminous Vaughan Williams Romanza, a Boulanger depiction of a spring morning and a dreamy, mysterious Sibelius symphony @BBCRadio3 6.30-9am

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Desert Island Disc klaxon. Strauss' Four Last Songs with soprano Sarah Wegener from Bridgewater Hall with @BBCPhilharmonic Plus a dramatic Tintagel by Bax, forbidden love for Tristan & Isolde and the UK premiere of Edmund Finnis's The Landscape Wakes. See you @BBCRadio3 7.30pm

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

This morning I'm serving a Turkish Breakfast with a side accompaniment from Mozart, there's music for an Orthodox Easter Sunday and following last night's stunning Met Opera Don Giovanni we celebrate the unusual and innovative middle name. See you @BBCRadio3 from 6.30am to 9am.

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Friday morning stroll with the girls then to the BBC studios in Leeds for Bach’s vibrant and celebratory Magnificat and Rachmaninov’s expansive and emotional Second Symphony. Classical Live ⁦@BBCRadio3⁩ 1pm-4pm

[Mark Forrest @ForrestMark]

Classical Live from the BBC studios in Leeds takes you to Montpellier for a concert performance featuring the charismatic and techically brillliant Yuja Wang directing the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's dazzling and passionate First Piano Concerto @BBCRadio3 1-4pm

[Grinton smallholder @Sharpr1966]

I think she’s a good and fit enough mum to handle triplet gimmers.