| 00:00 | 00:30John Shea presents a concert from the European Choir of the Year, the Sofia Vokalensemble.
| 00:30John Shea introduces a song recital with soprano Sandrine Piau and pianist Susan Manhoff.
| 00:30A performance of Puccini's Tosca given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
| 00:30John Shea presents a recital featuring piano trios by Beethoven, Ravel and Shostakovich.
| 00:30The Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays music by Poradowski, Rota and Mendelssohn.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith celebrates the musical career of double bassist Charles Mingus.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00A concert of Grieg and Sibelius from the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana.
| 01:00A concert from the Bahia Youth Orchestra, with soloist Maria João Pires in Chopin.
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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 | | | | | | 07:00Martin 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 Rob Cowan. Including Faure: Cello Sonata No 2. Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Saint-Saens: Clarinet Sonata, Op 167. Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Rob's Essential Choice: Debussy: Jeux. Bach: Missa brevis in A, BWV234.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including writer Janice Galloway and pieces from Poulenc and Mendelssohn.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Britten: Billy Budd.
| 09:00Rob Cowan introduces classic recordings by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explains why Niccolo Jommelli was dubbed 'the new Orpheus'.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on Jommelli's time spent in Rome.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores Jommelli's work at the Royal Court in Stuttgart.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores Jommelli's work in Stuttgart.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod on Jommelli's last years, marked by financial crisis and his wife's illness
| 12:15Tenor Ian Bostridge gives his perspective on Benjamin Britten.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is historian, biographer and critic Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) plays music by Scarlatti, Liszt, Chopin, Scriabin and Saint-Saens.
| 13:001/4John Mark Ainsley and Roger Vignoles perform song cycles by Schumann and Beethoven.
| 13:002/4Ailish Tynan (soprano) and Iain Burnside (piano) perform Schumann and Mendelssohn.
| 13:003/4Roderick Williams and Andrew West perform works by Schumann and Brahms at LSO St Luke's.
| 13:004/4Wendy Dawn Thompson and Eugene Asti perform works by Scumann and Mahler at LSO St Luke's.
| 13:00Catherine Bott examines the music and background to the 14th-century Roman de Fauvel.(R)
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping considers the film 'Tous Les Matins du Monde'.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Penny Gore presents music by Lutoslawski, Turina, Mahler and Elgar.
| 14:002/4Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Dvorak, Grieg and Lutoslawski.
| 14:003/4Including the BBC SO under Edward Gardner in Lutoslawski: Chain 2; Symphony No 3.
| 14:00Penny Gore presents a performance of Italo Montemezzi's opera L'amore dei tre re.
| 14:004/4The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Lutoslawski, Beethoven and Prokofiev.
| 14:00Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) plays music by Scarlatti, Liszt, Chopin, Scriabin and Saint-Saens.(R)
| 14:00Nicholas Cleobury conducts the Oxford Bach Choir and ECO in music by Britten and Poulenc.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30An archive broadcast from the Chapel of Bramdean School, Exeter.
| | | 15:00Noriko Ogawa explores musical connections to Japan. With Ravel, Shostakovich and Prokofiev
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| 16:00 | 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. With saxophonist Courtney Pine and pianist Janina Fialkowska.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents live music from tenor Toby Spence and pianist Freddy Kempf.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents. With conductor David Atherton plus music from pianist Maria Garzon
| 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. With live music in the studio from Cuarteto Casals.
| 16:30Live music from Philip Pickett with Carlos Nunez plus ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate.
| | 16:00An archive broadcast from the Chapel of Bramdean School, Exeter.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:00Two more British entries to the 2013 Let the Peoples Sing competition.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod explains why Niccolo Jommelli was dubbed 'the new Orpheus'.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on Jommelli's time spent in Rome.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod explores Jommelli's work at the Royal Court in Stuttgart.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod explores Jommelli's work in Stuttgart.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod on Jommelli's last years, marked by financial crisis and his wife's illness
| 18:00Britten's opera Billy Budd, recorded at English National Opera in 2012.
| 18:30Texts and music on the theme of metamorphosis. Readers: Meera Syal and Harry Hadden-Paton.
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| 19:00 | 19:301/2Live from Wigmore Hall, Christian Tetzlaff plays the three Brahms violin sonatas.
| 19:30Arias for the castrato voice by Mozart sung by Sarah Fox and Renata Pokupic.
| 19:301/2Mark Elder conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Webern and Schoenberg.
| 19:30Tugan Sokhiev and the Philharmonia celebrate the Royal Philharmonic Society's bicentenary.
| 19:301/2Paul Lewis plays Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas.
| | 19:45Thomas Dixon explores the history of weeping as an aesthetic response to works of art.
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| 20:00 | 20:15Actress Morven Christie reads a newly-discovered story from 1909 by Katherine Mansfield. 20:352/2Live from Wigmore Hall, Christian Tetzlaff plays the three Brahms violin sonatas.
| | 20:10Distinguished pianist and teacher Katharina Wolpe talks to Martin Handley. 20:302/2Mark Elder conducts the London Philharmonic in music by Mahler.
| | 20:20Stephen Johnson explores Britten's Spring Symphony. 20:402/2David Atherton conducts Britten's Spring Symphony. Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas.
| | 20:30The story of Billy Budd and the mutinous author who wrote this controversial novella.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30Documentary version of Sean Borodale's poem set at a cattle market.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Rana Mitter discusses Abraham Lincoln and his legacy. 22:4511/30Nobel Prize-winner the late Seamus Heaney's portrait of the great Anglo-Saxon Beowulf bard
| 22:00Including Manet, thinking like Sherlock Holmes, amateurs, and Norman Stone. 22:4512/30Scholar of the Anglo-Saxons Lilian Groves explores the life and times of St Bede.
| 22:00Samira Ahmed examines British social realism in film with the hindsight of half a century. 22:4513/30Writer David Almond discusses Caedmon, the earliest English poet whose name is known.
| 22:00With Anne McElvoy. Includes the future of the EU, Zero Dark Thirty, and what is an artist? 22:4514/30Jinty Nelson explains how the court of King Alfred was run and how he rewarded his thegns.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the Word'. 22:4515/30Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards discusses Offa, who was King of Mercia from 757 to 796 AD
| 22:002/2Matthias Pintscher leads the BBC SSO in music by himself, Dai Fujikura, Nordheim and Nono.
| 22:00Lucy Duran launches the 2013 World Routes Academy from the BBC Radio Theatre in London.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Pianist Django Bates and his Beloved Trio perform in concert in Sheffield.
| 23:00Verity Sharp with music by Meredith Monk and Ballaké Sissoko, plus vintage fado recordings
| 23:00Verity Sharp presents music by Max de Wardener, Hildegard of Bingen and Beethoven.
| 23:00Verity Sharp presents the latest Session, with Martin Green and Sheema Mukherjee.
| 23:00Live from Glasgow, Mary Ann Kennedy broadcasts from the 2013 Celtic Connections festival.
| | 23:00Julian Joseph presents a performance given by Chick Corea at the 2012 London Jazz Festival
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