| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain presents music by Schumann, Paderewski and Chopin.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a selection of Buxtehude and Bach.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Donizetti's Opera L'Elisir d'amore from the Royal Opera House.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain's selection includes Brahms's Symphony No 4 and Dvorak's Piano Trio, Op 21.
| 00:30Concerto Copenhagen perform concertos by Vivaldi, Fasch and Pisendel.
| | 00:00Alyn Shipton is joined by drummer Ralph Salmins to survey the output of Buddy Rich.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Mozart and Dvorak.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces a concert of music by Albeniz, Beethoven and Granados.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Bizet, Chabrier and Bach.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Glinka and Haydn.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Verdi, Vaughan Williams and Strauss.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Prokofiev, Wolf and Bizet.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Gabrieli.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Puccini, Weber and Elgar.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Sumsion, Strauss and Mascagni.
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| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Oscar Hernandez, Mendelssohn, Bruch and Schumann.
| 09:00Rob Cowan with a sequence of great music in classic recordings.
| 09:00Rob Cowan with a sequence of great music in classic recordings.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Chopin, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky and Schubert.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library and Disc of the Week.
| 09:00James Jolly presents great music, including CPE Bach, Grieg, Richard Strauss and Poulenc.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores the life and career of American composer William Schuman.
| 12:002/5Including Schuman's Pulitzer Prize-winning cantata and much-loved New England Triptych.
| 12:003/5Schuman's all-American baseball opera The Mighty Casey and his Violin Concerto.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores the political wrangling that dogged Schuman.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod introduces Schuman's final years, including his witty Mail Order Madrigals.
| 12:15With Tom Service. The legacy of dancer Merce Cunningham; tenor Joseph Calleja interviewed.
| 12:00Former lawyer and The Apprentice star Margaret Mountford reveals her musical enthusiasms.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Tenor Ben Johnson and pianist James Baillieu perform Schubert's Schwanengesang.
| 13:00The Escher Quartet perform two late quartets by Schubert.
| 13:00The Borodin Quartet perform a Tchaikovsky quartet preceded by an early Beethoven trio.
| 13:00Concert given in New York of works by Mozart and Beethoven.
| 13:00Members of the Borodin Quartet in music by Dvorak, Schubert and Brahms.
| 13:00Catherine Bott takes a look at the 16th-century Scottish Wode Psalter.
| 13:00Catherine Bott explores the musical legacy of King Dinis I of Portugal.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Louise Fryer presents the BBC National Chorus of Wales in music by Britten and Beethoven.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales in French music.
| 14:00BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Mozart, Mahler, Shostakovich and Stanford.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents the BBC Chorus and Orchestra of Wales in Handel's oratorio Saul.
| 14:00Highlights from the 2011 Lucerne Festival.
| 14:00Tenor Ben Johnson and pianist James Baillieu perform Schubert's Schwanengesang.
| 14:00Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer in an all-Wagner concert.
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| | | 15:00A personal view of classical music from Gareth Malone.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Performances in the studio by the Gould Piano Trio and sarod player Amjad Ali Khan.
| 16:30With baroque ensemble Passacaglia, composer Benjamin Wallfisch and soprano Kathryn Rudge.
| 16:30Glee comes to 3 - the great singer Idina Menzel sings live with Marvin Hamlisch at piano.
| 16:30With Ian Bostridge, The Prince Consort, Will Self, Pavel Haas Quartet and Fabio Bonizzoni.
| 16:30With pianist Charles Rosen, conductor Jakub Hrusa and composer Eric Whitacre.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:00Aled Jones talks to composer Rowland Lee about his Requiem.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod explores the life and career of American composer William Schuman.
| 18:302/5Including Schuman's Pulitzer Prize-winning cantata and much-loved New England Triptych.
| 18:303/5Schuman's all-American baseball opera The Mighty Casey and his Violin Concerto.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod explores the political wrangling that dogged Schuman.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod introduces Schuman's final years, including his witty Mail Order Madrigals.
| 18:00A concert performance of Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande given in Paris in May 2011.
| 18:30A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of The Word Girl.
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| 19:00 | 19:301/2From Wigmore Hall, London, the Belcea Quartet in an all-Beethoven concert.
| 19:30An organ recital by Wayne Marshall from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
| 19:301/5Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth SO in music by Berlioz and Mendelssohn.
| 19:30BBC Philharmonic: Elgar - Introduction & Allegro; Cello Concert; Elegy; Enigma Variations.
| 19:30The Britten Sinfonia and violinist Henning Kraggerud play Berio, Mozart and Schubert.
| | 19:454/4Examining the issues relating to gay rights as a measure of global human rights.
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| 20:00 | 20:30Stephen Johnson offers an insight into the mechanics of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge. 20:502/2From Wigmore Hall, London, the Belcea Quartet in an all-Beethoven concert.
| | 20:10A man confronts the former policeman who had a hand in his own father's fate years before.(R) 20:302/5Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.
| | | | 20:30An adaptation of Shaw's play dramatising the life and trials of Joan of Arc.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:40Monologue-based drama by Nicola Baldwin set over seven years after a girl goes missing.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Matthew Sweet interviews Joanna Bourke about her new book What It Means to Be Human. 22:451/5Author Margaret Drabble explores how insomnia has become something of an old friend.
| 22:00Juliet Gardiner interviews Woody Allen about his latest film Midnight in Paris. 22:452/5Literary critic and author John Sutherland explores the history of insomnia in literature.
| 22:00Philip Dodd talks to Claire Tomalin about her new biography of Charles Dickens. 22:453/5Author AL Kennedy explores why she has always found the nights too thrilling to sleep.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy presents the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. 22:454/5Poet Michael Symmons Roberts examines why he has been so fascinated by insomnia.
| 22:00Ian McMillan from Birmingham, with The Verb New Voices, David Lodge and Sathnam Sanghera. 22:455/5Actor Juliet Stevenson on why a creative life often means a life in want of sleep.
| 22:30Ivan Hewett introduces Michel van der Aa's Spaces of Blank. Plus The Hear and Now Fifty.
| 22:40Lucy Duran meets the extraordinary choir Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings at the City of London Festival.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents a varied selection of music.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington with music from Sevara Nazarkhan, Oskar Schinning and Bratsch.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents a varied selection of music.
| 23:00With Mary Ann Kennedy. Including a session with qawwali singer Adeel Saeed Chishti.
| | 23:30With Julian Joseph. Including an interview with vibes legend Gary Burton.
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