| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Czech performances of concerti from 18th-century Prague.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a programme of Saint-Saens's music performed in Bucharest.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Concert Orchestra in orchestral works by Toivo Kuula.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in concert.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. The Slovenian Radio and TV SO in Rossini, Mendelssohn and Mozart.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith celebrates the pleasures of jazz, surveying the art of 'bending notes'.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain with music from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under François Leleux.
| 01:00Stephen Hough in a performance of Saint-Saens's Fifth Piano Concerto from the 2011 Proms.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Presented by Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Vivaldi - a survey of his operas.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Sibelius: Symphony No 6.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Includes Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4, Op 90 (Italian).
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Shostakovich: Symphony No 5, Op 47.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 (Pathetique).
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Korngold: Violin Concerto.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents a Bach cantata, plus music by Liszt, Webern and Mozart.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Cherubini's roots in Italy and his first trip to London.(R)
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on what are probably Cherubini's two most influential operas.(R)
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod discusses a pair of major commissions Cherubini undertook in 1805 and 1815.(R)
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores Cherubini's extraordinary political flexibility.(R)
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on Cherubini's last 20 years.(R)
| 12:15Tom Service learns about a new production of Carousel at Opera North.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is politician and diplomat Paddy Ashdown.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Christoph Pregardien (tenor) and Christoph Schnackertz (piano) in Wolf, Liszt and Mahler.
| 13:001/4With the Ysaye Quartet in Schumann and the Modigliani Quartet in Arriaga.
| 13:002/4Takacs Quartet in music by Britten. Borodin Quartet in Beethoven.
| 13:003/4With the Modigliani Quartet in Mendelssohn and the Borodin Quartet in Wolfgang Rihm.
| 13:004/4Performance which took place at the fifth String Quartets Biennial in Paris.
| 13:00Catherine Bott explores some of Thomas Gainsborough's portraits of musicians.(R)
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping discusses Shakespeare's musical collaborator Robert Johnson.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/3Music by Arvo Part played at the Barbican, London. Including Magnificat; The Deer's Cry.
| 14:00The BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Canteloube, Parry and Brahms.
| 14:002/3Music by Arvo Part: Trivium; Seven Advent (Magnificat) antiphons; The Beatitudes; Summa.
| 14:00Katie Derham presents Elgar's The Apostles performed at King's College, Cambridge.
| 14:003/3Music by Arvo Part: Symphony No 1; Tabula rasa; Silhouette; Berliner messe; Symphony No 3.
| 14:00Christoph Pregardien (tenor) and Christoph Schnackertz (piano) in Wolf, Liszt and Mahler.(R)
| 14:00Choral music to celebrate the birthday of Shakespeare and the arrival of spring.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
| | | 15:00James Jolly explores the legacy and recordings of the Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. With music from the Opera Babes and Rachel Kolly d'Alba.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty is joined by conductor Stephane Deneve and pianist Andreas Haefliger.
| 16:30With music from Sitkovetsky Trio, London Octave Wind Soloists plus Juan Diego Florez.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents a special edition from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
| 16:30Alyn Shipton takes over as presenter of Radio 3's long-running programme of jazz requests.
| 16:00Recorded in April 2010 at the the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:30Jiri Belohlavek conducts a performance of Janacek's opera The Makropoulos Case.
| 17:00Aled Jones talks to a cancer charity planning to launch 15 new choirs across Wales.
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| 18:00 | | 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on what are probably Cherubini's two most influential operas.(R)
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod discusses a pair of major commissions Cherubini undertook in 1805 and 1815.(R)
| 18:004/5Donald Macleod explores Cherubini's extraordinary political flexibility.(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod focuses on Cherubini's last 20 years.(R)
| | 18:30Words and music on the theme of May Day. Readers: Sarah Alexander and Julian Rhind-Tutt.(R)
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| 19:00 | 19:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Cherubini's roots in Italy and his first trip to London.(R)
| 19:30The Ebène Quartet performs Mozart, Schubert and Tchaikovsky at Wigmore Hall, London.
| 19:30Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1. Beethoven: Symphony No 5.
| 19:001/2The OAE in Haydn's Symphony No 104 and Mozart's Violin Concerto No 3, with Isabelle Faust. 19:55Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's ground-breaking Triple Concerto, Op. 56.
| 19:301/2Stephane Deneve conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Debussy and Barber.
| | 19:45Charles Nicholl recreates Leonardo da Vinci's transient masterpieces.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00Belcea Quartet in Beethoven: String Quartets: No 4 in C minor; No 16 in F, No 7 in F.
| | | 20:152/2The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and soloists in Beethoven's Triple Concerto.
| 20:05Philip Bullock considers sacrificial links between the Rite of Spring and Emily Davison.(R) 20:252/2Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Stephane Deneve in Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring.
| 20:30Jonathan Harvey's fantasy opera, based on sketches left by Wagner.
| 20:303/3David Warner is Prospero, with Carl Prekopp as Ariel in Shakespeare's play of magic.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Matthew Sweet with a review of The Flying Dutchman at English National Opera. 22:451/5Writer and academic Sara Lodge considers Edward Lear as a tragicomic writer.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy on the influence of Leonardo da Vinci on our understanding of human anatomy. 22:452/5Writer Matthew Bevis explores the historical development of Edward Lear's nonsense poetry.
| 22:00Rana Mitter visits a new exhibition of Bauhaus art at the Barbican in London. 22:453/5Poet and academic Robert Crawford explores Edward Lear's literary legacy.
| 22:00Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition devoted to Shakespeare's The Tempest. 22:454/5Art historian Professor Caroline Arscott considers Edward Lear's work as an artist.
| 22:00Ian McMillan's guests include storyteller Daniel Morden and singer Simone Felice. 22:455/5Artist Ralph Steadman casts a cartoonist's eye over poet Edward Lear's work.
| 22:301/2Ivan Hewett presents the BBC SO in music by Jack White, Linda Buckley and Richard Causton.
| 22:25Lucy Duran reviews recent world music CD releases and explores online archives.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents a concert given by European improvising trio Les Diaboliques.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt with music from Lisa Knapp, Joyce, Champion Jack Dupree and Eska.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt's selection includes Dvorak, Tribraco and an ensemble of Angolan women.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt presents music from Yoshiro Kanno, Steve Lacy, anna-anna and Asha Bhosle.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents new world music, plus a session by American roots band Woody Pines.
| | 23:10Bandleader Colin Towns talks to Julian Joseph about his latest project, Blue Touch Paper.
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