| 00:00 | | | | | | | 00:00Lucie Skeaping explores the lives and work of Francesca and Settimia Caccini.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a concert given by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music by Mendelssohn, Villa-Lobos and Mozart.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces a programme of piano quartets by Schumann and Brahms.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Rossini's comic opera Il Turco in Italia.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents choral music by Brahms, Bach, Strauss and Mendelssohn.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents Mozart piano concertos performed by Clara Haskil.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain with a performance of Mozart Solemn Vespers and Beethoven's Symphony No 9.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Puccini, Grieg and Handel.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, including Sheng, Handel and Brahms.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Grainger, Delibes and more.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Bizet and Khachaturian.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Bartok, Prokofiev and Chopin.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Offenbach, Mendelssohn and Faure.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Elgar and Rossini.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Includes Britten's Symphonic Suite from Gloriana.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Mendelssohn, Bruch, Vivaldi, Strauss and Chausson.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Gershwin, Bach, Bax, Guilmant and Alnaes.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Halvorsen, Grieg and Sibelius.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music, including Walton, Elgar, Korngold, Liszt, Ireland, Bridge.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music, featuring the work of violinist Nigel Kennedy.
| | 10:00Louise Fryer with music by Handel, Beethoven and Paderewski, plus gig choices and emails.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod and Russian music expert Gerard McBurney explore Arensky's early years.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod on Arensky's move from St Petersburg to teaching in Moscow's Conservatoire.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod and Gerard McBurney follow Arensky's tempestuous career as a teacher.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod on Arensky's move from the Moscow Conservatoire to the Imperial Chapel.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod surveys Arensky's final years as he succumbed to tuberculosis.
| 12:15Tristram Hunt explores the musical responses to the death of Prince Henry, son of James I.(R)
| 12:00Michael Berkeley is joined by writer Marina Lewycka. Her choices include Bach and Handel.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00Young Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili performs music by Liszt and Prokofiev.
| 13:001/4Performance by the Ebene Quartet. Mozart: Divertimento, K138. Beethoven: String Quartet.
| 13:002/4Bach piano recital by Aleksandar Madzar given as part of 2011's East Neuk Festival.
| 13:003/4The Elias Quartet in Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 95. Mendelssohn: String Quartet, Op 13.
| 13:004/4The Leopold String Trio with Christian Zacharias (piano) in music by Beethoven and Brahms.
| 13:003/4The City Musick and tenor Jason Darnell perform Morley, Dowland and Guillaume Tessier.
| 13:004/4Catherine Bott talks to Florilegium members Neal Peres da Costa and Daniel Yeadon.
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| 14:00 | 14:00BBC Scottish SO under Donald Runnicles in works by Robin Holloway, Strauss and Brahms.
| 14:00Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simon Bolivar SO in Mahler's epic Resurrection Symphony.
| 14:00National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in music by G Prokofiev, Britten and Prokofiev.
| 14:00Christian Tetzlaff and BBC SO in Brahms's Violin Concerto and Mahler's Das klagende Lied.
| 14:00Sakari Oramo conducts the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in Sibelius, Grieg and Nielsen.
| 14:00Young Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili performs music by Liszt and Prokofiev.
| 14:00Francois-Xavier Roth conducts the BBC NOW in works by Bridge, Holt, Dupre and Saint-Saens.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Christopher Cook presents a concert paying tribute to Richard Rodney Bennett.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Live performance by pianist Llyr Williams and an interview with conductor Kirill Karabits.
| 16:30With the Spaghetti Western Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Collon.
| 16:00From the Three Choirs Festival at Worcester Cathedral.
| 16:30With music from cellist Jamie Walton and an interview with conductor Roger Norrington.
| 16:30Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 16:30Alyn Shipton celebrates the work of the bass virtuoso Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen.
| 16:00From the Three Choirs Festival at Worcester Cathedral.
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| 17:00 | | | 17:00Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist Dejan Lazic and conductor Vassily Sinaisky.
| | | 17:30Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:15Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores Britten's choral works.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod and Russian music expert Gerard McBurney explore Arensky's early years.
| 18:002/5Donald Macleod on Arensky's move from St Petersburg to teaching in Moscow's Conservatoire.
| 18:003/5Donald Macleod and Gerard McBurney follow Arensky's tempestuous career as a teacher.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod on Arensky's move from the Moscow Conservatoire to the Imperial Chapel.
| 18:005/5Donald Macleod surveys Arensky's final years as he succumbed to tuberculosis.
| 18:30Pianist Francesco Piemontesi performs Schumann and the Escher Quartet plays Beethoven.
| 18:00Stephen Johnson unpicks some of the musical nuances in Liszt's piano transcriptions.
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| 19:00 | 19:301/2Sakari Oramo conducts the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Sibelius and Grieg.
| 19:001/2Francois-Xavier Roth conducts the BBC NOW in music by Frank Bridge and Simon Holt. 19:50Sebastiane Hegarty explores the music inspired by natural sound.
| 19:001/2Kirill Karabits conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Liszt and Gliere. 19:40Louise Fryer talks to Proms guests and looks forward to the week ahead.
| 19:301/2Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Bridge and Brahms.
| 19:001/2The BBC Concert Orchestra performs film music, including Herrmann, Morricone and Walton. 19:55Screenwriter Ronald Harwood and pianist Neil Brand discuss the role of music in film.
| 19:301/2Louise Fryer presents Part 1 of the first-ever comedy Prom, with Tim Minchin.
| 19:001/2The BBC Singers and BBC SO in Britten's Cantata Misericordium and Sinfonia da Requiem.
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| 20:00 | 20:40Val McDermid and Louise Welsh on the explosion in Scandinavian crime writing.
| 20:102/2Francois-Xavier Roth conducts the BBC NOW in music by Dupre and Saint-Saens.
| 20:002/2Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits in Rachmaninov's Symphony No 2 in E minor.
| 20:30Lars Tharp asks Julian Lloyd Webber why the cello arouses such strong passions. 20:502/2Vassily Sinaisky leads the BBC Philharmonic. Holst: Invocation. Elgar: Enigma Variations.
| 20:152/2Concluding the film music Prom, with scores by John Williams, Jonny Greenwood, John Barry.
| 20:20Comedians Natalie Haynes and Steve Punt talk about their favourite humorous writing. 20:402/2Louise Fryer presents the conclusion of the first-ever comedy Prom. With Tim Minchin.
| 20:00Lindsay Duncan reads Virginia Woolf's sumptuous story of a sweltering summer's day at Kew. 20:202/2Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Spring Symphony.
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| 21:00 | 21:002/2Sakari Oramo conducts the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in Nielsen's Symphony No 4.
| 21:15Harriett Gilbert explores the life and work of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.(R)
| 21:30Jonathan Glancey reviews the remarkable career of the late architect Dame Zaha Hadid.(R)
| | 21:30Inspire Young Composers' Concert with the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon.
| 21:45Adaptation of a play about violence and prejudice, in response to the 1999 Soho pub bomb.(R)
| 21:30Zeinab Badawi reports from Khartoum on theatre groups helping those caught up in conflict.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Classical music critic Norman Lebrecht talks to composer Richard Rodney Bennett. 22:451/5Historian Dr Fiona Watson discusses the bloody comeback of James I, King of Scots.(R)
| 22:00Including German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt in Elliott Carter's sonata. 22:452/5Louise Welsh on the murders which marred the life and reign of James II King of Scots.(R)
| 22:15Steve Reich performs Clapping Music, Electric Counterpoint and Music for 18 Musicians.
| 22:00Sukhdev Sandhu travels to Chandigarh, the city in northern India built by Le Corbusier.(R) 22:454/5Katie Stevenson focuses on James IV and his love of jousting, King Arthur and chivalry.(R)
| 22:15The Spaghetti Western Orchestra performs the film scores of Ennio Morricone.
| 22:30Music inspired by Eastern philosophy, by Rolf Hind, Param Vir and Jonathan Harvey.
| 22:15Sequence of texts and music inspired by photographs and photography.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents another chance to hear performances by Atomic and the Vandermark 5.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington's selection includes music from Lady Maisery and Dariush Dolat.
| 23:45Fiona Talkington's selection includes Tinariwen and the Sheriffs of Nothingness.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington's selection includes the National Duduk Ensemble of Armenia.
| 23:45Mary Ann Kennedy presents a session with the Bibilang Shark Calling Group.
| | 23:30Julian Joseph presents Ethiopian jazz great Mulatu Astatke at the Glasgow Jazz Festival.
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