| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain presents the Oslo Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Haydn's Missa in tempore belli.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Rossini's William Tell given at the 2011 Proms.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents the Diamond Ensemble with violinist Nikolaj Znaider in Mozart.
| 00:30Frans Bruggen leads the Orchestra of the 18th Century in concertos by Chopin and Schumann.
| | 00:00Saxophonist Alan Skidmore joins Alyn Shipton to select his best recordings.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00A recital given by pianist Sara Daneshpour at the 66th International Chopin Festival.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain's selection includes pianist Daniil Trifonov playing Liszt and Chopin.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Butterworth, Brahms and Gibbons.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Handel, Britten and Elgar.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Monti, Holst and Dvorak.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents music by J Strauss II, Bach and John Field.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Chopin, Lauridsen and Waldteufel.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Sibelius: Symphony No 4 in A minor.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Haydn, Pisendel and Prokofiev.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod traces Bizet's musical development back to its roots.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod follows the young Bizet to Rome after his prize at the Paris Conservatoire.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod focuses on the years after Bizet's return from Rome.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod on Bizet's later life, when he remained committed to writing for the stage.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod tells the story of Bizet's final months.
| 12:15Tom Service travels to Florence to discover more about the birth of opera.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest for Sport Relief is Austrian footballer Paul Scharner.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Boris Giltburg (piano) plays Prokofiev, Schumann and Rachmaninov at Wigmore Hall, London.
| 13:001/4London Winds performs music by Ligeti, Nielsen and Mozart.
| 13:002/4The Apollon Musagete Quartet in music by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.
| 13:003/4Nikolai Demidenko in Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata. Brahms: Piano Sonata No 3.
| 13:004/4Susan Bullock (soprano) and Malcolm Martineau (piano) in Schumann, Wagner and Duparc.
| 13:00Catherine Bott marks St Patrick's Day with highlights from 2011's Kilkenny Arts Festival.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping explores the art of the lullaby and its inspiration to early music.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Louise Fryer with music by Vaughan Williams, Pizzetti, Honegger, Stravinsky and Brian.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents Gluck's opera based on Greek myth, Iphigenie en Tauride.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents music inspired by the ancient world, by Schmitt, Mozart and Einem.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents a performance of Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents music by Stravinsky, Havergal Brian, Beethoven and Busoni.
| 14:00James Jolly on great conductors of the media age: Bernstein, von Karajan and Solti.
| 14:00The Takacs Quartet plays Bartok's String Quartets Nos 2, 4 and 6.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Guildford Cathedral.
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| 16:00 | 16:30With music from students at the Purcell School and violinist Nicola Benedetti.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty meets violinist/rock musician David Garrett, who plays music by Kreisler.
| 16:30With music from Krzysztof Chorzelski and Katya Apekisheva plus Christopher Wheeldon.
| 16:30With music from the Kuss Quartet, pianist Cordelia Williams and Laurence Cummings.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with a St Patrick's Day special, with ceilidh music from London Lasses.
| 16:00Kirill Petrenko conducts Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
| 16:00From Guildford Cathedral.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | | 17:00Aled Jones explores new ways of singing with choir trainer Stuart Barr.(R)
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod traces Bizet's musical development back to its roots.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod follows the young Bizet to Rome after his prize at the Paris Conservatoire.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod focuses on the years after Bizet's return from Rome.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod on Bizet's later life, when he remained committed to writing for the stage.
| 18:005/5Donald Macleod tells the story of Bizet's final months.
| | 18:30Texts and music on the theme of education. Readings by Richard Wilson and Celia Imrie.
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| 19:00 | 19:30The BBC Concert Orchestra and Tasmin Little in a concert paying tribute to Yehudi Menuhin.
| 19:30The Aurora Orchestra in works by Wagner, Copland and Julian Anderson, and young composers.
| 19:30From St Paul's, Knightsbridge, the BBC Singers give a concert for Lent.
| 19:301/2The Halle performs Strauss's Serenade for Wind and Holst's The Hymn of Jesus.
| 19:001/2BBC NOW in Frank Martin: Petite symphonie concertante. Lutoslawski: Double Concerto.
| | 19:45Professor Raymond Tallis explores the science and culture of immortality.
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| 20:00 | | | | 20:10Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's Second Symphony. 20:302/2Mark Elder conducts the Halle in Elgar's tragic and nostalgic Symphony No 2.
| 20:10Fiona Sampson considers the work of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. 20:302/2BBC NOW/Thierry Fischer in Stravinsky: Concerto in D (Basle). Honegger: Symphony No 4.
| 20:30Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 20:30Drama inspired by Dorothea Lange's iconic photograph of Florence Owens Thompson.(R)
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30Esther Wilson's biting and comic play about two homeless people.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Samira Ahmed with the UK premiere of composer Judith Weir's new opera, Miss Fortune. 22:451/5Stephen Gill explores the complex feelings that the Japanese have for Mount Ogura.(R)
| 22:00Matthew Sweet presents a review of the National Gallery exhibition Turner Inspired. 22:452/5Howard Zhang on the sacred mountains of China and what these mean to the Chinese today.(R)
| 22:00Eli Zaretsky talks to Philip Dodd about his new book Why America Needs a Left. 22:453/5Matej Zatonjsek explains the deep feeling the people of Slovenia have for their mountains.(R)
| 22:00Anne McElvoy discusses the new documentary Four Horsemen. 22:454/5Poet Kenneth Steven considers the relationship of the Scots to their mountains.(R)
| 22:00Presented by Ian McMillan. With Colm Toibin, Helen Simpson, Ben Okri and Peter Blegvad. 22:455/5Javier Lizarzaburu on the Inca shrine of Pariacaca and what the mountain means today.(R)
| 22:30Psappha perform music by Sally Beamish, Anthony Payne and Peter Maxwell Davies.
| 22:00Lucy Duran with a World Routes concert by Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Max Romeo.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents saxophonist Steve Williamson and pianist Pat Thomas in concert.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music from Takeshi Terauchi, Kayhan Kalhor and Louis Armstrong.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music from Ata Ebtekar, Ahmad Al-Khatib and Suni McGrath.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music from Henri Pousseur, Kongero and Philip Mead.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy with Anais Mitchell in session, and the Songlines Awards nominations.
| | 23:00Julian Joseph presents Mulatu Astatke performing at the 2011 Glasgow Jazz Festival.
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