| 00:00 | 00:40Jonathan Swain presents Bach's St John Passion in a 2012 performance from Copenhagen.
| 00:30Presented by Jonathan Swain. Pianist Daniil Trifonov plays music by Liszt and Chopin.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Handel's dramatic cantata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents the Philharmonia Orchestra playing Prokofiev, Bartok and Neuwirth.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Mahler's Symphony No 10 performed by the Wroclaw Philharmonic.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith picks personal favourites by the great saxophonist Charlie Parker.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces a concert of 17th-century English music.
| 01:00As part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring season, Jonathan Swain introduces French baroque music
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the start of Baroque around the Clock for Red Nose Day.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Mozart's Piano Concerto in F, K459.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Schumann: Violin Concerto.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Telemann: Overture in B flat, TWV 55 B1.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 8.
| 09:00Rob Cowan continues Radio 3's Baroque marathon with music and Top of the Baroque.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Corelli: Concerti grossi, Op 6.
| 09:00Rob Cowan introduces music including Telemann's cantata Der am Olberg zagende Jesus.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5The repercussions of Purcell's shocking early death.and his very first mature works.
| 12:002/5One of Purcell's most original anthems: the bass showpiece They that Go to Sea in Ships.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod examines Purcell's revolutionary first opera Dido and Aeneas.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores English myth and fantasy in The Fairy Queen and King Arthur.
| 12:005/5Celebrating Red Nose Day Donald Macleod explores Purcell's bawdy sense of humour.
| 12:15Suzy Klein meets young British violinist Nicola Benedetti as she begins a tour of Scotland
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is historian Amanda Vickery.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00The Arcanto Quartet plays string quartets by Haydn and Brahms at the Wigmore Hall, London.
| 13:002/4Songs by Schubert and Beethoven's String Quartet No 10 in E flat, Op 74 (Harp).
| 13:003/4Songs by Grieg and Tchaikovsky's Trio in A minor, Op 50, performed at festivals in Belfast
| 13:004/4Songs by Grieg and Schumann and Szymanowski's Second String Quartet performed in Belfast.
| 13:00Dance Baroque for Comic Relief: live from the University of York.
| 13:00As part of Baroque Spring, Catherine Bott explores Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610.
| 13:00For Baroque Spring, Catherine Bott focuses on gods and monsters in Monteverdi's operas.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/3Katie Derham presents music by Tippett, Chopin, Stephen Hough and Beethoven.
| 14:002/3Katie Derham presents music by Berlioz, Tippett, Stephen Hough and Brahms.
| 14:003/3The BBC Singers perform Scarlatti and MacMillan live in London. Plus music by Tippett.
| 14:00A rare chance to hear a performance of Zamponi's Ulisse all'isola di Circe.
| 14:00Katie Derham presents more live performances and comedy features for Red Nose Day.
| 14:00Philip Franks introduces music by Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn, Sullivan and Barber.
| 14:001/2Cantatas and arias by Handel and Vivaldi performed by La Risonanza at Clandon Park, Surrey 14:40Katie Derham, Lars Tharp and Katherine Sharp take a tour of the treasures of Clandon Park.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Chichester Cathedral as part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring season.
| | | | 15:002/2La Risonanza and soprano Yetzabel Arias Fernandez perform music by Vivaldi.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty with live music from harpsichordist Laurence Cummings and cellist Jan Vogler
| 16:30Guests include mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker, pianist Valentina Lisitsa and Tippett Quartet.
| 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. Live music and guests, plus Beastly Baroque for Comic Relief.
| 16:30With Sean Rafferty. Including composer Michael Nyman and violinist Hilary Hahn.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents a special programme from the Media Cafe in New Broadcasting House.
| 16:00Live from the Metroplitan Opera in New York, Zandonai's opera Francesca da Rimini.
| 16:00From Chichester Cathedral as part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring season.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | | 17:00Eric Whitacre introduces choral music ranging from Monteverdi to his own works.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5The repercussions of Purcell's shocking early death.and his very first mature works.
| 18:302/5One of Purcell's most original anthems: the bass showpiece They that Go to Sea in Ships.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod examines Purcell's revolutionary first opera Dido and Aeneas.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod explores English myth and fantasy in The Fairy Queen and King Arthur.
| 18:305/5Celebrating Red Nose Day Donald Macleod explores Purcell's bawdy sense of humour.
| | 18:30A sequence of poetry, prose and music saying farewell to all things old.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Lauren Laverne and Andrew McGregor present Baroque Remixed, with the BBC Concert Orchestra
| 19:30Trio Zimmermann performs trios by Beethoven and Hindemith.
| 19:301/2HK Gruber conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by MacMillan and Britten.
| 19:301/2Garrick Ohlsson joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2.
| 19:30Handel's Messiah in Mozart's version performed by BBC Philharmonic and Harry Christophers.
| 19:45Alyn Shipton introduces listeners' requests with a focus on the trumpet.
| 19:45Joyce McMillan on the past, present and future of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, now 50.
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| 20:00 | | | 20:10Paul Allen argues that the downfall of Oedipus was the fault of his father, Laius. 20:302/2HK Gruber conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a performance of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.
| 20:05Stephen Johnson explores Bruckner's Symphony No 2 in C minor. 20:252/2Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No 2.
| | 20:45A drama based on verbatim interviews with three elderly people, and performed by children.
| 20:30By John Fletcher. The dark story behind the creation of the coalition government of 1940.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:202/3Sara Mohr-Pietsch and guests answer listeners' questions about Baroque music.
| | | | | 21:30Goffredo Petrassi's Partita for Orchestra.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Matthew Sweet is joined by Irish novelist Julia O'Faolain. 22:451/5Writer Julian Barnes asks 'Is writing about sex the same as writing about anything?'.
| 22:00Presented by Samira Ahmed. With Yael Farber, Kevin Fong, John Agard and Carlos Reygadas. 22:452/5Writer and academic David Bellos on why translating sex in literature is so difficult.
| 22:00George Bellows, Geoff Mulgan, psychology as a science, and Ken Loach's Spirit of '45. 22:453/5Sarah Churchwell examines the tradition of depicting sex in popular fiction.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy talks to celebrated Balkan novelist and essayist Aleksandar Hemon. 22:454/5Vicki Feaver reflects on how the poet can explore their own sexuality.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word. 22:455/5Rachel Johnson asks if we are all too ready to leap to judgement about writing about sex.
| 22:15Highlights from the 2012 Witten Days for New Chamber Music.
| 22:00Lucy Duran visits Paraguay, introducing cowboy-musicians from the Misiones region.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents guitarist Bill Frisell and his Beautiful Dreamers Trio in concert.(R)
| 23:00Verity Sharp with an Occitanian-Brazilian collaboration, The Bad Plus and Kris Drever.
| 23:00Verity Sharp with Greek piano music, a motet from Schutz and tarantellas from Italy.
| 23:00Verity Sharp with music from Cuba and Argentina, viol music and Philip Glass.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy presents new world music, plus a session from the Old Tire Swingers.
| | 23:00Julian Joseph interviews Mark Lockheart. Plus concert music by the Marius Neset Quartet.
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