| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain presents the Miro Wind Quintet in concert, playing Francaix and Taffanel.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Verdi's Requiem performed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Tsar's Bride.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a song recital including Schumann's Dichterliebe.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Stenhammar's Piano Concerto No 2 and Berwald's Symphony No 3.
| | 00:00Vibraphonist Gary Burton joins Alyn Shipton to pick his best recordings.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents an archive performance of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony.
| 01:00With John Shea. Mark Elder leads the Halle and BBC Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No 8.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Ellis, Monteverdi and Dvorak.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Delius and Elgar, plus the Specialist Classical Chart.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Chopin, Mascagni and Ponchielli.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Liszt and Mozart.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Saint-Saens, Prokofiev and Bellini.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Clemency Burton-Hill presents music by Faure, Mozart and Harris.
| 07:00Clemency Burton-Hill presents music by Elgar, Milhaud and Bach.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Beethoven, Franz Waxman and Mahler.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Mozart, Prokofiev and Elgar.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Bach, Piazzolla and Britten.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Mendelssohn, Part and Tippett.
| 09:00Rob shares great music and performances. The Artist of the Week is Gidon Kremer.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Brahms: Clarinet Quintet.
| 09:00James Jolly presents music in the best recordings from the archives and the present day.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod discusses a highly personal chamber work and Smetana's move to Gothenburg.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on Smetana's romantic life.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod on Smetana tried to create an operatic style that was recognisably Czech.
| 12:004/5Macleod explores Smetana's Ma Vlast and the rebirth of a Czech culture.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod tells the story of Smetana's final years, when he composed Ma Vlast.
| 12:15Tom Service talks to Peter Conrad about his book Verdi and/or Wagner.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is English porcelain expert Henry Sandon, from Antiques Roadshow.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Colin Carr (cello) and Thomas Sauer (piano) give an all-Beethoven recital at Wigmore Hall.
| 13:001/4Eugene Ugorski (violin), Konstantin Lifschitz (piano) in music by Bartok, Grieg and Ravel.
| 13:002/4Danish Quartet in Nielsen: String Quartet No 4. Grieg: String Quartet in G minor, Op 27.
| 13:003/4Monica Groop (mezzo) and Rudolf Jansen (piano) in Mozart, Berg, Liszt, Grieg and Sibelius.
| 13:004/4Peter Jablonski (piano) performs music by Sibelius, Grieg and Nielsen.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the 2011 Regensburg Early Music Days Festival.
| 13:00A profile of Maria Barbara, Portuguese infanta and Spanish queen and music she inspired.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Music to accompany the BBC Four Symphony series, by Nielsen, Ives and Elgar.
| 14:00Music complementing the BBC Four Symphony series, by Shostakovich, Sibelius and Mahler.
| 14:00Katie Derham continues R3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony".
| 14:00Music to complement the BBC Four Symphony series, by Weill, Roussel, Barber, Shostakovich.
| 14:00Katie Derham concludes R3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony".
| 14:00Colin Carr (cello) and Thomas Sauer (piano) give an all-Beethoven recital at Wigmore Hall.
| 14:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Andrew McGregor with highlights of the 2011 British Composer Awards.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the Church of the London Oratory for the Feast of St Andrew the Apostle.
| | | 15:00Nicola Benedetti shares some of the classical music and musicians that inspire her.
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| 16:00 | 16:30With music from Richard Tognetti, Tine Thing Helseth, Garrick Ohlsson and Michael Colina.
| 16:30With Ailyn Perez and Piotr Beczala from Covent Garden's La Traviata, plus Ensemble 360.
| 16:30With performances from the Choir of Clare College Cambridge and pianist Igor Levit.
| 16:30Live performance from lutenist David Miller and an interview with conductor HK Gruber.
| 16:30With live performances from the David Gordon Trio and the Elysian Singers.
| 16:30Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 16:00From the Church of the London Oratory for the Feast of St Andrew the Apostle.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:30Harry Bicket conducts Handel's Rodelinda, starring Renee Fleming and Andreas Scholl.
| 17:00Aled Jones uncovers the history of the Red Army Choir.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod discusses a highly personal chamber work and Smetana's move to Gothenburg.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on Smetana's romantic life.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod on Smetana tried to create an operatic style that was recognisably Czech.
| 18:304/5Macleod explores Smetana's Ma Vlast and the rebirth of a Czech culture.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod tells the story of Smetana's final years, when he composed Ma Vlast.
| | 18:30Texts and music about the Four Temperaments. Readings by Joe Dunlop and Joanna Tope.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Lausanne Chamber Orchestra under Bertrand de Billy in Mozart's Symphonies Nos 39, 40, 41.
| 19:30Garrick Ohlsson plays piano music by Handel, Brahms, Liszt and Scriabin at Wigmore Hall.
| 19:301/2Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic in Matthias Pintscher and Beethoven.
| 19:301/2Andrew Manze conducts the BBC SSO in Sibelius: Rakastava, Op 1; Symphony No 4.
| 19:30HK Gruber conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Ives, Adams, HK Gruber and von Einem.
| | 19:45Travel writer Ian Marchant investigates 'psychogeography'.
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| 20:00 | | | 20:20Long-lost fragments of Sibelius's Eighth, and feedback about the question of applause. 20:402/2Vladimir conducts the London Philharmonic in Bruckner's Symphony No 1.
| 20:15A contemplation of the 'endless days and nights' that affect northern Scandinavia. 20:352/2The BBC SSO under Andrew Manze and soloist Andreas Brantelid in Dvorak's Cello Concerto.
| | | 20:30Classic drama set in the midst of 1916's Easter Rising.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:55A play by Peter Blegvad and Iain Chambers charting the failing memory of a fictional GP.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Presented by Anne McElvoy. With a discussion about the life of film director Ken Russell. 22:451/5Tracy Chevalier on the fate of some sparkling stones in de Maupassant's The Necklace.(R)
| 22:00Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Dennis Potter's television series The Singing Detective. 22:452/5Justin Cartwright on corporate America and the novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit.(R)
| 22:00Rana Mitter talks to writer Owen Shears, and discusses artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 22:453/5Laura Cumming considers a famous black dress, memorably painted by John Singer Sargent.(R)
| 22:00Anne McElvoy interviews film director Martin Scorsese about his new film Hugo. 22:454/5Critic Peter Bradshaw on the two red coats worn in the film Don't Look Now.(R)
| 22:00With music from guitarist Martin Simpson and Sandeep Parmar on poetry by Hope Mirrlees. 22:455/5Alexandra Shulman on the Leonard Cohen song Suzanne and how it dressed young women.(R)
| 22:301/4Music by Mauricio Kagel, Thomas Simaku. Plus Hear and Now 50: Ferneyhough's Bone Alphabet.
| 22:40Lopa Kothari introduces highlights from the 2011 WOMEX festival in Copenhagen.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents Henry Threadgill and his group Zooid at the 2011 London Jazz Festival.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington plays a diverse range of musical styles.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington plays a diverse range of musical styles.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington plays a diverse range of musical styles.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy introduces a session with Cahalen Morrison and Eli West.
| | 23:30Claire Martin presents a concert given in Glasgow by trumpeter Tomasz Stanko.
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