| 00:00 | 00:30A concert from Switzerland of Italian baroque choral music by Sammartini and Bernasconi.
| 00:30Susan Sharpe with a concert of Schubert and Britten given by the Brentano String Quartet.
| 00:30An archive performance of Donizetti's opera La Favorita recorded in Buenos Aires in 1967.
| 00:30Susan Sharpe presents selected archive recordings from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
| 00:30A concert of piano duet music featuring works by Brahms, Liszt and Grainger.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith presents a personal journey, taking in great musicians and great music.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Music by Albeniz, Beethoven and Granados from the Cervera Easter Festival in Spain.
| 01:00Featuring Kabalevsky's Cello Concerto No 2, with the KBS SO and Steven Isserlis.
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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 | 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Bruch: Scottish Fantasy.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice Beethoven: Piano Concerto, Op 37.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Haydn: Symphony No 102.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante in B flat.
| 09:00Rob Cowan selects recordings by Vladimir Horowitz. Plus music inspired by animals.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod introduces the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on Coleridge-Taylor's early successes.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod on the story of the romance between Coleridge-Taylor and Jessie Walmisley.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores some of Coleridge-Taylor's lesser-known music.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on the final years of Coleridge-Taylor's life.
| 12:15Mark Swed and David Nicholls join Tom Service to reassess the life and music of John Cage.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is novelist, playwright and screenwriter Fay Weldon.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Skampa Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet in D, K575. Schubert: String Quartet, D804.
| 13:001/4Tasmin Little (violin) and John Lenehan (piano) perform music by Elgar and Strauss.
| 13:002/4Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano) in songs by Schumann, Strauss, Debussy, Quilter and Britten.
| 13:003/4Ashley Wass (piano) plays Bridge, Bach/Busoni, Bax and Schumann at the 2012 Hay Festival.
| 13:004/4The Doric String Quartet performs music by Haydn and Britten at the 2012 Hay Festival.
| 13:00Catherine Bott presents a concert of Gabrieli's music from the Edinburgh Festival.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4With Penny Gore. BBC Orchestras in music by Howells and Tchaikovsky.
| 14:002/4BBC NOW in music by Chabrier, Falla, Walton, Delius and Tippett. Plus BBC SSO in Finzi.
| 14:003/4With Penny Gore. BBC Symphony Orchestra in Elgar, and the BBC SSO in Ernest Bloch.
| 14:00Penny Gore presents Puccini's La boheme performed at the 2012 Salzburg Festival.
| 14:004/4Penny Gore presents music by Karlowicz, Novak, Beethoven and Strauss.
| 14:00Skampa Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet in D, K575. Schubert: String Quartet, D804.(R)
| 14:005/5The 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition Prize-Winners' gala recital.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Live music from Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Alberto Reyes and James Gilchrist with Julius Drake.
| 16:30Live music from Matthew Barley and Julian Joseph plus Nicholas Daniel and Charles Owen.
| 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. With guests including choreographer Mark Morris.
| 16:30With live music from Cuban band Son Yambu, The Catherine Wheel, plus Dame Fanny Waterman.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include pianist Peter Donohoe and Joseph Middleton.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' requests in all styles of jazz.
| 17:00Aled Jones explores the story behind the Yellow River Cantata.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod introduces the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on Coleridge-Taylor's early successes.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod on the story of the romance between Coleridge-Taylor and Jessie Walmisley.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod explores some of Coleridge-Taylor's lesser-known music.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod focuses on the final years of Coleridge-Taylor's life.
| 18:303/5Petroc Trelawny presents the final of the 17th Leeds International Piano Competition.
| 18:30Claudie Blakley and Tony Haygarth celebrate the art of doing nothing much at all.(R)
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| 19:00 | 19:301/3Orchestre des Champs-Elysees and Collegium Vocale Gent in music by Mahler and Bruckner.
| 19:302/3The European Union Youth Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda in music by Debussy and Busoni.
| 19:303/3Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in music by Bartok and Mahler.
| 19:301/5Petroc Trelawny introduces the six competition finalists, with examples from recitals.
| 19:302/5The first of the two concerto finals from the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition.
| | 19:45Richard Bernas explores the legacy of John Cage in music and beyond.
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| 20:00 | | | | | | | 20:30Christopher Marlowe's 16th century play about the growth to power of a Scythian shepherd.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Philip Dodd on what 'enough' means in an economic climate dominated by wanting 'more'. 22:451/5Julian Jackson explores France's first war of decolonisation: a slave rebellion in Haiti.(R)
| 22:00Anne McElvoy asks if we put too much weight on happiness as a measure of quality of life. 22:452/5Julian Jackson tells the story of France's involvement in sub-Saharan Africa.(R)
| 22:00Matthew Sweet with a Landmark edition examining Dostoevsky's The Idiot. 22:453/5Julian Jackson discusses the imperial troops who fought for France in two world wars.(R)
| 22:00In a programme exploring 'the good life', economist Amartya Sen talks to Philip Dodd. 22:454/5Julian Jackson focuses on France's involvement in Indo-China - Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.(R)
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents the word cabaret, with Zadie Smith and Michael Symmons Roberts. 22:455/5Julian Jackson focuses on the Algerian War, France's last great colonial crisis.(R)
| 22:30Music by John Cage and Gyorgy Kurtag.
| 22:30Highlights from Morocco's Timitar Festival, held in the Atlantic coastal town of Agadir.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents avant-garde guitarist Fred Frith with John Edwards and Mark Sanders.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with music by Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight, Moondog and Lucas Santtana.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with music from Anouar Brahem, Can, and Jason Moran and Sebastian Rochford.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe's selection includes Pharoah Sanders, Burnt Friedmann and Super Rail Band.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents new world music releases as well as a session with Red Baraat.
| 23:554/5The announcement of the winner of the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition.
| 23:30Julian Joseph presents the second part of a concert set by bassist Janek Gwizdala.
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