| 00:00 | 00:30Archive recordings of performances by Claude Debussy, Clara Haskil, Camille Saint-Saens.
| 00:30Piano Season on the BBC: Nicholas Angelich performs Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2.
| 00:30Gounod's Romeo et Juliette from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
| 00:30Pianist François-Frédéric Guy plays Liszt's Harmonies poetiques et religieuses.
| 00:30A special concert celebrating 75 years of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, a personal journey taking in great musicians and great music.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Nicola Hall presents Beethoven's Violin Concerto played by Viktoria Eberle.
| 01:00Soprano Sandrine Piau and pianist Susan Manhoff perform 19th and 20th-century songs.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating Piano Season on the BBC.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating Piano Season on the BBC.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating Piano Season on the BBC.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating Piano Season on the BBC.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating Piano Season on the BBC.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating the BBC's piano season
| 07:00Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, celebrating the BBC's piano season
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Brahms: A German Requiem.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Coffee Cantata, BWV211.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Holst: Choral Fantasia.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Nielsen: Springtime on Funen.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Bartok: Cantata Profana.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Janacek: String Quartets.
| 09:00Rob Cowan celebrates the pianistic legacy of Stefan Askense and introduces a Bach cantata.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores the origins of the nocturne.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores Field and Chopin's early careers.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod surveys the complicated love lives of John Field and Fryderyk Chopin.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod focuses on Field and Chopin at the height of their fame.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod evaluates the impact of Field and Chopin on other composers.
| 12:15With Anna Caterina Antonacci, the BCMG and Wagner's Ring.
| 12:00Theatre director Michael Grandage reveals his musical enthusiasms to Michael Berkeley.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) and John Lenehan (piano) perform music by Ireland and Delius.
| 13:001/4Sean Rafferty presents music by Poulenc and Faure.
| 13:002/4Lawrence Power (viola), Antti Siirala (piano) in Brahms. Chiaroscuro Quartet in Mozart.
| 13:003/4Sean Rafferty presents music by Bartok, Kodaly and Szymanowski.
| 13:004/4From the 2012 West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2012, music by Shostakovich and Mozart.
| 13:00Catherine Bott charts the rise and fall of James Brydges, a former patron of Handel.(R)
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping explores Louis XIV's 1683 competition to find his four new chapel composers
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| 14:00 | 14:001/5The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Grieg, Beethoven, Nielsen and Delius.
| 14:002/5The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Schubert, Beethoven, Rozsa and Dvorak.
| 14:003/5The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Anthony Burgess, Tchaikovsky and Rozsa.
| 14:004/5The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Schoenberg, Beethoven, Bliss, Rozsa and Prokofiev.
| 14:005/5The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Bruckner.
| 14:00Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) and John Lenehan (piano) perform music by Ireland and Delius.(R)
| 14:00JoAnn Falletta conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Borodin, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
| | | 15:00Emma Forbes explores the use of piano music in film, from Brief Encounter to The Pianist.
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| 16:00 | 16:30With live music from David Owen Norris and members of Chamber Domaine.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Mark Elder, Alisa Weilerstein and Robert Murray.
| 16:30With live music from pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, Lady Maisery, plus David Bintley.
| 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. With guests including violinst and vocalist Lizzie Ball.
| 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. With live music from members of The Bach Players.
| | 16:00From St Edmundsbury Cathedral.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton introduces music from Keith Jarrett, Fats Waller and Champion Jack Dupree.
| 17:00Aled Jones is joined by members of the Vienna Boys' Choir, to discuss their tour of the UK
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod explores the origins of the nocturne.
| | 18:303/5Donald Macleod surveys the complicated love lives of John Field and Fryderyk Chopin.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod focuses on Field and Chopin at the height of their fame.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod evaluates the impact of Field and Chopin on other composers.
| 18:00William Christie conducts a performance of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's David et Jonathas.
| 18:30Poetry and music on the theme of democracy with readings by Lisa Dillon and Ray Fearon.
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| 19:00 | 19:301/2As part of Piano season on the BBC, Pascal and Ami Rogé play Debussy, Poulenc and Ravel.
| 19:002/5Donald Macleod explores Field and Chopin's early careers.
| 19:301/2Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO in Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten.
| 19:30The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra open their season with Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.
| 19:301/2Thomas Zehetmair conducts the Northern Sinfonia in Schumann's Symphony No 1 (Spring).
| | 19:45Dana Gioia traces developments in Californian poetry since the Beats in the 1950s.
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| 20:00 | 20:10Sara Mohr-Pietsch and guests answer questions about anything to do with the piano. 20:352/2Pascal and Ami Rogé play Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole and Debussy's La mer.
| 20:00Live from Ealing Abbey, The Sixteen performs music from 15th and 16th century Flanders.
| 20:15Stephen Johnson surveys Alexander Zemlinsky's opera A Florentine Tragedy. 20:352/2Zemlinky's one-act opera A Florentine Tragedy.
| | 20:05Stephen Johnson explores the long-awaited First Symphony by Brahms. 20:252/2Thomas Zehetmair conducts the Northern Sinfonia in Brahms's Symphony No 1.
| 20:45Kate Clanchy's environmental-themed comedy play.(R)
| 20:30Drama depicting the relationship between Mikhail Bulgakov and Josef Stalin.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) performs Scarlatti, Mompou, Liszt and Albeniz at Wigmore Hall.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Philip Dodd's guest is Mark Rylance, former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe. 22:451/5Art critic Alastair Sooke on how the piano has infused and informed painting and the arts.
| 22:00Matthew Sweet is in Paris to examine the newly-opened Islamic art wing at the Louvre. 22:452/5Writer Stuart Isacoff explores how the piano's sound has shaped musical history.
| 22:00Samira Ahmed examines the cultural significance of the planet Mars. 22:453/5The poet Wendy Cope presents a personal look at pianos in her life.
| 22:00Arts and cultural discussion with Anne McElvoy includes Jack Straw on power and depression 22:454/5Artist Luke Jerram on how he put over 700 pianos in public places across the world.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word. 22:455/5Susan Tomes describes the life of a concert pianist, constantly playing unfamiliar pianos.
| 22:301/2Tom Service explores the modern piano and is joined by experimenting pianist Sarah Nicolls
| 22:30Highlights from the 2012 Darbar Festival, from the Mysore Brothers and Joydeep Ghosh.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents an exclusive session by pianist Alexander Hawkins and his sextet.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington with playground songs, throat songs and choral music from Iceland.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington with music by Xenakis and Jason Steele, plus an antelope song from Mali.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington introduces English electro-folk, Kurdish folksongs and music from Nepal.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy presents new music from around the world, and Session A9 in concert.
| | 23:30Claire Martin is joined by composer and keyboard virtuoso Django Bates.
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