| 00:00 | 00:30Susan Sharpe presents a concert from Korea, featuring Janacek, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
| 00:30With Susan Sharpe. The Orchestra della Svizzera Italia plays Prokofiev, Weill and Strauss.
| 00:30Susan Sharpe's presents the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Dvorak and Brahms.
| 00:30Susan Sharpe presents Bach's Art of Fugue played by the Berlin Academy for Ancient Music.
| 00:30Susan Sharpe presents the BBC Concert Orchestra in Bowen, Alwyn, Parry, Vaughan Williams.
| | 00:00Violinist Regina Carter joins Alyn Shipton to pick her finest recordings.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces the Cherubini Requiem Mass and a programme of Vivaldi and Handel.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents Mahler's Symphony No 7 with the Concertgebouw and Bernard Haitink.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Praetorius, Chopin and Weber.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Hildegard von Bingen, Vivaldi and Rimsky-Korsakov.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Walton, Kodaly and Suppe.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Monteverdi, Jessel and Haydn.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Beethoven, Schubert and Josef Strauss.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Herrmann, Haydn and Purcell.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Geminiani, Grieg and Beethoven.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Enescu, Prokofiev and Walton.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Nielsen, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Glazunov and Mozart.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Verdi and Shostakovich.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Weber, Prokofiev and Finzi.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mahler: Symphony No 8.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Tchaikovsky, Zelenka, Buxtehude and Berlioz.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's upbringing in Melbourne and study in Frankfurt.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on how Grainger established himself as a pianist.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's adoption of US citizenship and his marriage.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's founding a museum of himself.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on Graingers's Jungle Book Cycle and his 'greatest hits'.
| 12:15Tom Service presents a special edition focusing on the symphony since 1945.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is former BBC political editor John Sergeant.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00The Jerusalem Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet, K421. Debussy: Quartet in G minor, Op 10.
| 13:001/4The Elias Quartet peform music by Beethoven and Smetana at St George's Hall, Liverpool.
| 13:002/4Tasmin Little (violin), John Lenehan (piano): Kreisler, Bach, Grieg, Bartok, Tchaikovsky.
| 13:003/4The Fine Arts Quartet in Glass: String Quartet No 2. Grieg: String Quartet in G minor.
| 13:004/4Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) sings Schumann's Dichterliebe and settings of the same poems.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping presents music by Handel performed by the English Concert and Lucy Crowe.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping explores the work of 18th century Scottish composer James Oswald.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Music to accompany the BBC Four Symphony series, by Wagner, Bruckner and Sibelius.
| 14:00Music to accompany the BBC Symphony series, by Dvorak, Wagner, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents Mahler's Symphony No 2 performed at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival.
| 14:00Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC SSO in Dvorak: Symphony No 9. Mahler: Symphony No 3.
| 14:00Music to accompany the BBC Symphony series, by Sibelius, Britten, Elgar, Vaughan Williams.
| 14:00The Jerusalem Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet, K421. Debussy: Quartet in G minor, Op 10.
| 14:00Chief conductor Juanjo Mena leads the BBC Philharmonic in music by Bach and Bruckner.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From St George's Chapel, Windsor.
| | | 15:00Simon Russell Beale focuses on composers who lived in and visited London.
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| 16:00 | 16:30With the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments and the Wellensian Consort.
| 16:30With music from Emma Kirkby, Jakob Lindberg, Tim Kliphuis, Nigel Clark and Roy Percy.
| 16:30With music from jazz singer Ian Shaw and young Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin.
| 16:30With music from the Blossom Street Singers and Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.
| 16:30With music from the Fugata Quintet, plus an interview with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
| | 16:00A Service for Advent with carols, from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:30Aled Jones makes a selection from the diverse body of choral music by Benjamin Britten.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's upbringing in Melbourne and study in Frankfurt.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on how Grainger established himself as a pianist.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's adoption of US citizenship and his marriage.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's founding a museum of himself.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod focuses on Graingers's Jungle Book Cycle and his 'greatest hits'.
| 18:00Martin Handley presents an ENO performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
| 18:30Scott Handy and Catherine Harvey read poetry and prose inspired by the Great Exhibition.
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| 19:00 | 19:301/2Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC CO in Vaughan Williams, Milford, Delius and Ravel.
| 19:30Music inspired by the beauty of the English countryside, by Gurney, Janacek and Elgar.
| 19:30Peter Hill (piano) performs music by Messiaen, Sculthorpe, Takemitsu and Ravel.
| 19:30The BBC Singers in music by Cowie, McCabe, Bingham, Stanford, Dutilleux and Messiaen.
| 19:301/2The Coull String Quartet performs music by Haydn and Cowie at Earth Music Bristol.
| | 19:45Humayun Ansari from the University of London tells the story of mosques in Britain.
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| 20:00 | 20:15Sue Perkins and Tom Service explore symphonic nationalism and famous symphonic beginnings. 20:352/2Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC CO in Honneger, Vaughan Williams and Bartok.
| | | | 20:10Sue Perkins and Tom Service on the relevance of the symphony in the 21st century. 20:302/2Coull String Quartet in Cowie: Birdsong Bagatelles 13-24. Dvorak: String Quartet, Op 96.
| | 20:30August Wilson's play about a brother and sister and a piano carved with African faces.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:00A poem by Katrina Porteous and composer Peter Zinoviev inspired by the Uffington Horse. 21:30Music by British composers David Bedford, Joseph Phibbs and Morgan Hayes.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Susie Orbach challenges the obsession with personal change at Free Thinking 2011. 22:451/5Nature writer Richard Mabey reflects on how and why we like to sing together.
| 22:00Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddite movement, to mark its 200th anniversary. 22:452/5Behaviour expert Professor Tim Birkhead explores how birds learn to sing.
| 22:00Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore discusses dramatic changes in the teenage brain. 22:453/5Composer Edward Cowie shares his enthusiasm for lyre and bell birds.
| 22:00A talk in which landscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art. 22:454/5Bird song recordist Geoff Sample explores whether birds sings symphonically.
| 22:00As the nights get longer, Ian McMillan and Toby Litt investigate the word 'darkling'. 22:455/5Poet and writer Paul Farley explores why a bittern can sound like reggae.
| 22:30A preview of the 2011 British Composer Awards. Hear and Now 50: Howard Skempton's Lento.
| 22:30Lucy Duran explores the archive of pioneering ethnomusicologist Jean Jenkins.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents Archie Shepp and Joachim Kühn at the London Jazz Festival.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music from the Necks, and Tuule Kann and Jaak Sooaar.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington's varied selection includes trio Tindra and Polish band Kroke.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music from Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy presents a concert from Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra.
| | 23:00Claire Martin presents concert sets from pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Gilad Atzmon.
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