| 00:00 | 00:30A concert of Haydn, Martinu and Mendelssohn with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana.
| 00:30With Paul Hillier conducting Ars Nova and Concerto Copenhagen in Monteverdi's Vespers.
| 00:30John Shea presents a concert of Mozart chamber works given in Stockholm.
| 00:30John Shea presents the Pavel Haas Quartet performing two works by Dvorak.
| 00:30The Danish National Symphony Orchestra perform two Schubert symphonies in concert.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith explores the career of alto saxophonist and composer Benny 'King' Carter.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00The Prague RSO perform a programme of music by Martinu, Kabalevsky and Dvorak.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents a concert given by the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 07:00Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Strauss: Don Quixote.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Sibelius: Symphony No 6.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Berlioz: Harold in Italy.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Rob's Essential Choice: Schubert, orch Koechlin: Wanderer Fantasy.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including an interview with violinist Isabelle Faust.
| 09:00With James Jolly. Includes the latest Bach cantata: Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV78.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5John Adams tells Donald Macleod about his decision to move to the West Coast of America.
| 12:002/5John Adams talks to Donald Macleod about the influence of Charles Ives on his music.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores John Adams's works written on a smaller canvas.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod on John Adams's music inspired by travelling through the American landscape
| 12:005/5John Adams talks to Donald Macleod about some of his stage works.
| 12:15Tom McKinney explores how throughout history birds have inspired music.(R)
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is journalist and former newsreader Trevor McDonald.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs music by Debussy including Preludes: Book 2.
| 13:001/4Music by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky from the 2011 Verbier Festival.
| 13:002/4Leonidas Kavakos (violin) plays Beethoven. Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) performs Schubert.
| 13:003/4Featuring Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata and Bryn Terfel in songs by Ibert and Quilter.
| 13:004/4From Verbier 2011: Shostakovich: Violin Sonata. Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Petrushka.
| 13:00Exploring music connected with characters from Dumas's The Three Musketeers.
| 13:00Catherine Bott presents a portrait of Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00The CBSO under Andris Nelsons in Glinka, Emily Howard and Shostakovich.
| 14:00Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko in Maxwell Davies, Delius and Shostakovich.(R)
| 14:00I Fagiolini under Robert Hollingworth performs Viadana, Bassano, Gabrieli and Monteverdi.(R)
| 14:00Prom in which Oliver Knussen conducts the BBC SO in Goehr, Knussen, Grime and Debussy.(R)
| 14:00Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester/Daniele Gatti in music by Wagner, Berg, Strauss and Ravel.(R)
| 14:00Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs music by Debussy including Preludes: Book 2.(R)
| 14:00Martyn Brabbins conducts Dyson's The Canterbury Pilgrims at 2012's Three Choirs Festival.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30Choral Evening Prayer from Neresheim Abbey, in southern Germany.
| | | 15:00Actress Nichola McAuliffe chooses some forgotten gems.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. Including author Philip Pullman and conductor David Robertson.
| 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. With live music from British Youth Opera and Fish Music.
| 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. With guests including Joseph Calleja and Valentina Lisitsa.
| 16:30Live music from Counterpoise ensemble and Christopher Purves, plus Harry Christophers.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Nigel Kennedy, Juan Martin and Mark Simpson.
| | 16:00Choral Evening Prayer from Neresheim Abbey, in southern Germany.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton presents music from Stacey Kent, Anita O'Day, Ry Cooder and Barney Bigard.
| 17:00Aled Jones meets the creator of a newly recorded oratorio inspired by deep family tragedy.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5John Adams tells Donald Macleod about his decision to move to the West Coast of America.
| 18:302/5John Adams talks to Donald Macleod about the influence of Charles Ives on his music.
| 18:003/5Donald Macleod explores John Adams's works written on a smaller canvas.
| 18:004/5Donald Macleod on John Adams's music inspired by travelling through the American landscape
| 18:305/5John Adams talks to Donald Macleod about some of his stage works.
| 18:00Texts and music on the theme of perfection. Readers: Helen Baxendale and David Schofield.(R)
| 18:30Texts and music exploring the colour green. Readings by Niamh McGrady and Sean Barrett.
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| 19:00 | 19:301/2First part of a Prom celebrating 70 years of the Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs.
| 19:301/2St Louis Symphony Orchestra in Brahms: Tragic Overture and Beethoven: Violin Concerto.
| 19:001/3John Adams conducts Act 1 of his own opera Nixon in China.
| 19:001/2Vienna Philharmonic/Bernard Haitink and Murray Perahia in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4. 19:45Stefan Zweig's story about the discovery on Lake Geneva of a man clinging to driftwood.
| 19:301/2Bernard Haitink conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Haydn's Symphony No 104 (London).
| 19:301/2Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the Last Night of the Proms.
| 19:45Christine Finn examines the life and work of fellow archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes.
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| 20:00 | 20:30Tim Rice and Kevin Jackson explore book choices in the Radio 4 series Desert Island Discs. 20:502/2Conclusion of a Prom celebrating 70 years of the Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs.
| 20:40David Bramwell meets natural weather forecaster David King.
| 20:05Rana Mitter and Shuyun Sun debate the political context of John Adams' Nixon in China. 20:252/3John Adams conducts Act 2 of his own opera Nixon in China.
| 20:052/2The Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink performs Bruckner's Symphony No 9.
| 20:00Wendy Cope and Ian McMillan introduce the winning entries in the Proms Poetry Competition. 20:202/2Bernard Haitink conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Strauss's An Alpine Symphony.
| 20:50Suzy and Sean talk to tonight's peformers and introduce music from Proms in the Park.
| 20:30By Mike Walker. In the jungle in Vietnam, two men relive the 1960 presidential election.
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| 21:00 | | 21:002/2David Robertson conducts the St Louis Symphony Orchestra in Schoenberg and Gershwin.
| 21:20Adrian Mourby examines the history of the operatic plot. 21:403/3John Adams conducts Act 3 of his own opera Nixon in China.
| 21:30Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes revisits Budapest in search of Liszt's gypsy music.(R)
| 21:45Frances Byrnes explores the Dance Plague of 1518, and dance mania throughout history.(R)
| 21:102/2The concluding part of the traditional Last Night of the Proms festivities.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Composer and conductor John Adams talks to Norman Lebrecht about his life and work. 22:451/4Richard Witts on the origins of Music Appreciation, and the work of pioneer Percy Scholes.(R)
| 22:00Judith Mackrell asks if dance remains ultimately about the moving human body.(R) 22:452/4Richard Witts on educationalist Walford Davies and Imogen Holst, one of his team.(R)
| 22:453/4Musicologist Richard Witts explores the significance of programme notes.(R)
| 22:15Congolese street band Staff Benda Bilili perform with Congolese-Belgo rapper Baloji.
| 22:30Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young artists. 22:454/4Richard Witts on Music Appreciation's excursion into film and a new broadcasting era.(R)
| | 22:15Including a review of new world music albums, and a studio session with Fuyuki Enokido.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Kevin Le Gendre presents new rock-improv quartet Collider in session.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt with music from Compagnie El Hashemi Nhass and the Aurora Orchestra.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt's varied selection includes mouth music from the Western Isles.
| 23:45Max Reinhardt with music from Don Byron, John Cage, Juliette Greco and Abdullah Ibrahim.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy's selection includes a studio session from Afro-funk outfit KonKoma.
| 23:00Rhodri Davies's Common Objects ensemble plus Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece, In C.
| 23:00Julian Joseph presents a concert given by the Buck Clayton Legacy Band.
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