| 00:00 | | | | | | | 00:00Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of French composer Henri Desmarest.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Susan Sharpe presents an all-Schubert Concert from Zagreb.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents a concert from the 2009 Varazdin Festival in Croatia.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents performances of Beethoven, Nielsen and Sibelius.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents a recital by Danish violinist Lars Bjornkjaer.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents a recital of early organ music performed by Andrea Marcon.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces recordings from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain's selection includes Mozart piano concertos performed by Clara Haskil.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms. Music by Minkus, Coates, Vivaldi and Faure.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Britten, Vaughan Williams, Bizet and Nielsen.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Liszt, Gershwin, Butterworth and Villa-Lobos.
| 07:00Rob Cowan prsents music by Rossini, Rameau and Revueltas.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Dvorak, Janacek, Smetana and Bartok.
| 07:00Petroc Trelawny presents music by Delius, Buxtehude, Puccini and Rameau.
| 07:00Petroc Trelawny presents music by Purcell, Liadov, Mahler and Pärt.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library - Strauss: Alpine Symphony.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Vaughan Williams, Fanelli, Baermann, Buxtehude and Ravel.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Offenbach, Satie, mozart, Buxtehude, Debussy and Roussel.
| 10:00Sarah Walker with music by Buxtehude, Lili Boulanger, Martinu, Debussy, Bach and Clementi.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Delius, Chabrier, D'Indy, Buxtehude, Bach and Ravel.
| 10:00Sarah Walker with music by Buxtehude, Mompou, Liszt, Weber, Griffes, Handel, Mussorgsky.
| | 10:00Louise Fryer introduces great music, listeners' emails, her gig of the week and a new CD.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod outlines the background behind Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola.(R)
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod presents an extended performance of Sibelius' music for The Tempest.(R)
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores the full, tragic saga of Sibelius' never-completed Symphony No 8.(R)
| 12:004/5With Donald Macleod. Late works for organ, plus the only recording of Sibelius conducting.(R)
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod presents Sibelius' last arrangements, plus the finale from his 5th Symphony(R)
| 12:15Petroc Trelawny talks to film director Mike Figgis as he makes his operatic debut.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley meets theatre director Katie Mitchell. Her choices include Bach and Nono.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00Henk Neven (baritone) and Hans Eijsackers (piano) in Beethoven, Faure, Ibert and Loewe.
| 13:001/4Music by Tippett, Borodin from 2010's Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival.
| 13:002/4Saint-Saens and Faure played at 2010's Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival.
| 13:003/4Piano trios by Saint-Saens and Ravel from 2010's Lincolnshire Chamber Music Festival.
| 13:004/4Music by Vaughan Williams and Chausson from the Lincolnshire Chamber Music Festival 2010.
| 13:00Catherine Bott introduces highlights of the London debut concert given by Apollo's Fire.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping talks to viola da gamba virtuoso Paolo Pandolfo.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4The Ulster Orchestra in music by Elaine Agnew, Stanford, Harty, Clara Schumann and Bizet.
| 14:002/4Ulster Orchestra in music by Grace Williams, Haydn, Lili Boulanger and Alice Mary Smith.
| 14:003/4The Ulster Orchestra in music by Fanny Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Amy Beach.
| 14:00Katie Derham introduces Rossini's opera Il barbiere di Siviglia from Los Angeles Opera.
| 14:004/4Ulster Orchestra in music by Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Fleischmann and Ina Boyle.
| 14:00Henk Neven (baritone) and Hans Eijsackers (piano) in Beethoven, Faure, Ibert and Loewe.
| 14:00Fiona Talkington with listeners' requests, including Sousa, Haydn, Lauridsen and Franck.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran explore the music of desert communities.
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| 16:00 | | | 16:00An archive programme, originally broadcast in 2011 from Bath Abbey.
| | | 16:00Ian Smith joins Alyn Shipton to select the best work by trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker.
| 16:00An archive programme, originally broadcast in 2011 from Bath Abbey.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty's guests include Carlo Curley, Charles Hazlewood and Timothy Dean.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty with performances from the Sitkovetsky Trio and violinist Ilya Gringolts.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty is joined by harpist Sioned Williams and viola player Lawrence Power.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 17:00Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:00Stephen Johnson and conductor Nicholas Kraemer explore Haydn's wit and invention.(R)
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:00Paolo Arrivabeni conducts Verdi's opera Rigoletto, based on a Victor Hugo play.
| 18:30Aled Jones turns his attention heavenward to find choral music with an angelic theme.
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| 19:00 | 19:00A piano recital given by Nikolai Lugansky, featuring Chopin, Brahms and Liszt.
| 19:00Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Ginastera, Piazzolla and Falla.
| 19:00Kristjan Järvi conducts the vibrant National Youth Orchestra in orchestral showpieces.
| 19:00A concert by the Nash Ensemble with music by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
| 19:001/2BBC Singers/Bob Chilcott and organist Iain Farrington in Walton, Ligeti, Liszt and Kodaly. 19:45Matthew Sweet investigates the musical legacy of the Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts.
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| 20:00 | | | | | 20:052/2BBC Singers/Bob Chilcott in music by Bingham, Bernard Hughes, Iain Farrington and Britten.
| | 20:00Play in which essayist Michel de Montaigne is sent on a diplomatic mission around France.
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| 21:00 | 21:15Matthew Sweet debates Rudyard Kipling's place in literary history.
| 21:15Anne McElvoy talks to playwright Nina Raine and former death row inmate Wilbert Rideau.
| 21:15Philip Dodd talks to Mary Midgley and Tom Shakespeare talks to Havi Carel.
| 21:00Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran explore the music of desert communities.
| 21:15Presented by Ian McMillan. With David Harsent, Jonathan Safran Foer and Hannah Silva.
| 21:30Evoking life working in coal mines and the accompanying fictional and real-life dramas.
| 21:30Isabel Hilton reports from China more than 100 years on from the fall of the last emperor.
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| 22:00 | 22:001/5Donald Macleod outlines the background behind Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola.(R)
| 22:002/5Donald Macleod presents an extended performance of Sibelius' music for The Tempest.(R)
| 22:003/5Donald Macleod explores the full, tragic saga of Sibelius' never-completed Symphony No 8.(R)
| 22:004/5With Donald Macleod. Late works for organ, plus the only recording of Sibelius conducting.(R)
| 22:005/5Donald Macleod presents Sibelius' last arrangements, plus the finale from his 5th Symphony(R)
| 22:00Chamber works - Nigel Osborne's trio The Piano Tuner and Adrian Jack's 6th String Quartet. 22:302/5Music focusing on theatre, performed at 2010's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
| 22:15Texts and music on the theme of humour. Readings by Sophie Thompson and Sanjeev Bhaskar.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/5Alain de Botton reads an essay on the life and work of scholar Michel de Montaigne. 23:15Jez Nelson presents US alt-jazz trio The Bad Plus in collaboration with Django Bates.
| 23:002/5Philosopher Theodore Zeldin considers to what extent Montaigne's outlook holds true today. 23:15Fiona Talkington presents music from Laurie Anderson, Steve Mackey and Mariliis Valkonen.
| 23:003/5Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate on the relationship between Montaigne and the Bard. 23:15Fiona Talkington presents Lithuanian night music, plus Hannah Peel and Susanne Rosenberg.
| 23:004/5Montaigne biographer Sarah Bakewell on the writer's cat, scepticism and animal souls. 23:15Fiona Talkington with musical storytelling. Plus a session by Hauschka and Oren Marshall.
| 23:005/5Philosopher AC Grayling reads an essay on the life and work of Michel de Montaigne. 23:15Lopa Kothari presents her selection of the best new releases on CD from around the world.
| | 23:30Julian Joseph presents the Neil Cowley Trio and the Finn Peters Quintet in concert.
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