| 00:00 | 00:30Susan Sharpe selects an outstanding concert of early tenor duets performed by Vivante.
| 00:30Susan Sharpe presents a BBC Proms performance of Mozart's Requiem.
| 00:30With Susan Sharpe. Artist focus on Bulgarian cellist Anatoli Krastev.
| 00:30Susan Sharpe presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the Proms.
| 00:30Susan Sharpe presents a concert of piano duets by Rachmaninov, Debussy and Ravel.
| | 00:00John Etheridge joins Alyn Shipton to pick his recordings.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Susan Sharpe presents choral music by Brahms and Bruckner's 9th Symphony.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a concert from the 2011 Bodensee Festival with music by Beethoven.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny with music by Chabrier and Brahms, and the Yellow River Piano Concerto.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny with music by Esenvald and Beethoven, plus the Specialist Classical Chart.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Bernstein, Arnold and Chopin.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Dukas, Chabrier and Grainger.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Holst, Mozart and Clara Schumann.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Grieg, Bizet and Strauss.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Delius, Byrd and Britten.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Rob Cowan shares great music and performances, including the Essential CD of the Week.
| 09:00Rob Cowan shares great music and performances. Including the Essential CD of the Week.
| 09:00Rob Cowan shares great music and performances. Including the Essential CD of the Week.
| 09:00Rob Cowan shares great music and performances. Including the Essential CD of the Week.
| 09:00Rob Cowan shares great music and performances.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mendelssohn's Elijah.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Faure, Turina, Haydn and Mozart.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod presents music from early in Britten's career.(R)
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod presents part of Britten's cantata St Nicholas, plus two of his operas.(R)
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod introduces Britten's Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac.(R)
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod introduces the final song from Britten's cycle The Poet's Echo.(R)
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod on Britten's late works, including his final opera, Death in Venice.(R)
| 12:15Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber introduces four forgotten heroes of the cello-playing world.
| 12:00Another chance to hear the musical choices of the late Jennifer Worth, a former midwife.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00The Takacs Quartet perform music by Haydn and Dvorak at Wigmore Hall, London.
| 13:001/4Chamber music and songs by Mozart, Schubert and Liszt from the 2011 Bath Mozartfest.
| 13:002/4Chamber music and songs by Beethoven from the 2011 Bath Mozartfest.
| 13:003/4Chamber music and songs by Beethoven, Britten and Rachmaninov from 2011's Bath Mozartfest.
| 13:004/4Chamber music and songs by Brahms, Britten, Liszt and Bargiel from 2011's Bath Mozartfest.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping and Berta Joncus discuss the colourful 18th-century soprano Kitty Clive.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping with music by 17th-century composers Tarquinio Merula and Marco Uccellini.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/3Louise Fryer presents BBC Philharmonic in music by Ravel, Falla and Shostakovich.
| 14:002/3Louise Fryer presents music by Arriaga, Rodrigo, Ravel, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
| 14:003/3Stuart Flinders presents music by Weber, Montsalvatge and Turina.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents Gluck's opera Telemaco, from the Schwetzingen Festival in Germany.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents Les Agrémens in Cherubini, Gluck and Schubert's Mass in E flat.
| 14:00The Takacs Quartet perform music by Haydn and Dvorak at Wigmore Hall, London.
| 14:00Daniel Hope (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by Norman, Britten and Shostakovich.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Durham Cathedral on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul.
| | | 15:00Simon Heffer presents music by George Lloyd, Finzi, Butterworth, Walton and Alwyn.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 16:30With music from cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and violinist James Ehnes.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Sir Thomas Allen and Michael Collins.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Fitzwilliam String Quartet and saxophonist Soweto Kinch.
| 16:30With music from oboist Nicholas Daniel, singer Curtis Stigers and pianist Peter Jablonski.
| | 16:00From Durham Cathedral on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:00Aled Jones examines Berlioz's use of space and sonority in his Requiem Mass.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod presents music from early in Britten's career.(R)
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod presents part of Britten's cantata St Nicholas, plus two of his operas.(R)
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod introduces Britten's Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac.(R)
| 18:004/5Donald Macleod introduces the final song from Britten's cycle The Poet's Echo.(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod on Britten's late works, including his final opera, Death in Venice.(R)
| 18:00Puccini's Tosca, from the New York Met, with soprano Patricia Racette in the title role.
| 18:30Texts and music about oustsiders, with readings by Lesley Manville and Tom Goodman-Hill.
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| 19:00 | 19:301/2Atrium Quartet in Haydn: String Quartet, Op 33 No 1. Shostakovich: Quartet No 11, Op 122.
| 19:30Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Debussy and Berlioz.
| 19:30The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performs music by Weber, Dvorak and Sibelius.
| 19:00Orchestre National de France under Daniele Gatti perform Schubert and Berg.
| 19:301/2Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Stephane Deneve in music by Debussy and Prokofiev.
| | 19:45Kathryn Knight on common denominators and extramusical connections between Part and Bach.
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| 20:00 | 20:10Paul Allen on the history of the interval, from Ancient Greece to today's concert halls.(R) 20:302/2Atrium Quartet in Shostakovich: Quartet No 1, Op 49. Beethoven: Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1.
| | | | 20:00Stephen Johnson explores the ballet Bacchus et Ariane by French composer Albert Roussel. 20:202/2Stephane Deneve conducts the RSNO in a rare performance of Roussel's Bacchus et Ariane.
| | 20:30By John Fletcher. The dark story behind the creation of the coalition government of 1940.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30English composer Jocelyn Pook asks 'what happens when we die?' Scored with new music.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Margaret Drabble in conversation at the 2011 Free Thinking Festival. 22:451/5Andrew Martin explains 'phonophobia' and the strange measures he takes to banish it.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy discusses philosopher Alain de Botton's new book Religion for Atheists. 22:452/5Andrew Martin laments 'piped music' and what he considers to be its worsening quality.
| 22:00Matthew Sweet visits the new Hajj exhibition at the British Museum. 22:453/5Andrew Martin on his boyhood love of train travel and noises on public transport today.
| 22:00Rana Mitter presents a special programme on Iran. 22:454/5Andrew Martin looks to the skies, to those rumblings that always discombobulate him.
| 22:00Presented by Ian McMillan. With a discussion on the life and work of poet Peter Redgrove. 22:455/5Andrew Martin describes how in order to escape noise, he goes on a retreat in Essex.
| 22:00Milton Babbitt's Septet But Equal (1992). Composers Ensemble directed by Paul Zukofsky. 22:301/2Tom Service celebrates the music of Jonathan Harvey. Including Calling Across Time.
| 22:00From the BBC Radio Theatre, London, Lucy Duran launches the 2012 World Routes Academy.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents clarinettist/saxophonist Michel Portal at the London Jazz Festival.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents an eclectic selection of music.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents an eclectic selection of music.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington's varied selection includes a session from Field Music and Warm Digits.
| 23:00With Lopa Kothari and featuring a studio session by folk band Pilgrims' Way.
| | 23:00Julian Joseph focuses on David Murray's album Ming in the company of Kevin LeGendre.
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