| 00:00 | 00:30Presented by John Shea. Including the BBC Philharmonic in music by Grieg at the 2012 Proms
| 00:30John Shea's selection includes the Pavel Haas Quartet performing two works by Dvorak.
| 00:30John Shea introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov.
| 00:30John Shea presents piano music by Mussorgsky performed by Fazil Say.
| 00:30John Shea presents recital in which tenor Christoph Pregardien sings Schumann and Mahler.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith celebrates the music of cornettist, pianist and composer Bix Beiderbecke.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00From the 2012 Proms: Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink in Bruckner's Symphony No 9
| 01:00John Shea presents the Vienna Philharmonic performing at the 2012 Proms.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Bach Day.
| 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 | | | | | | 07:00Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 07:00Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Sarah Walker. CD Review Building a Library: Bach: Sonatas for violin and continuo.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Sarah's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: Sonata in G minor, Op 19.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Piano Concerto No 16 in D, K451.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Sonata No 8 in A, Op 47 (Kreutzer)
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schumann: Myrthen, Op 25.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music addressing the theme of fathers and daughters.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod on how Puccini's music was linked with the ideas of the new unified Italy.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores Puccini's evocation of bohemian life, La boheme.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores the dark recesses of Puccini's political thriller, Tosca.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod focuses on the exotic sounds Puccini created for Madam Butterfly.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod explores some of Puccini's later collaborations with writer Giuseppe Adami.
| 12:15Tom Service talks to pianist Leif Ove Andsnes about his Beethoven journey.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Brian Blessed.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:001/2A nine-hour celebration of Bach's music with conductor John Eliot Gardiner.
| 13:001/4The Aronowitz Ensemble performs Korngold and Shostakovich at the 2012 St Magnus Festival.(R)
| 13:002/4Music from the Trondheim Soloists. Grieg: Holberg Suite. Bartok: Divertimento.(R)
| 13:003/4Llyr Williams (piano) and the Leipzig Quartet play Beethoven at 2012's East Neuk Festival.(R)
| 13:004/4Llyr Williams in Beethoven piano sonatas: Op 110 and Op 111.(R)
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping profiles celebrated early wind ensemble Les haulz et les bas.
| 13:00Catherine Bott explores the music associated with the medieval texts of the Carmina Burana
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| 14:00 | | 14:001/3Penny Gore presents the BBC SSO performing music by Berlioz, Chopin, Mahler and Zarzycki.
| 14:002/3Penny Gore presents the BBC SSO performing music by Zarzycki, Beethoven and Zelenski.
| 14:00Verdi's Otello in a performance given at Venice's Teatro La Fenice.
| 14:003/3Penny Gore presents the BBC SSO in music by Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Ravel and Sibelius.
| 14:00The Arcanto Quartet plays string quartets by Haydn and Brahms at the Wigmore Hall, London.(R)
| 14:00Stephen Cleobury conducts the BBC CO in music by Britten, Lennox Berkeley and Howells.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the Parish Church of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol with the RSC Millennium Youth Choir.
| | | 15:00Gardener Rachel de Thame introduces a selection of green-fingered music for spring.
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| 16:00 | | 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. Including a live performance from soprano Joan Rodgers.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents live music from clarinettist Michael Collins and The Sixteen.
| | 16:30Sean Rafferty is in the BBC's Salford studios, presenting live music and guests.
| | 16:00From the Parish Church of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol with the RSC Millennium Youth Choir.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | 17:00Sean Rafferty presents. With live music from Fugata Quintet plus pianist Gilles Vonsattel.
| | 17:00Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:00Choral conductor and singer Tim Rhys-Evans presents a selection of male voice choir music.
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| 18:00 | | 18:302/5Donald Macleod explores Puccini's evocation of bohemian life, La boheme.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod explores the dark recesses of Puccini's political thriller, Tosca.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod focuses on the exotic sounds Puccini created for Madam Butterfly.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod explores some of Puccini's later collaborations with writer Giuseppe Adami.
| 18:00Live from the Met in New York, Das Rheingold, the first instalment of Wagner's Ring Cycle.
| 18:30Texts and music on the theme of good women. Readers: Oliver Dimsdale and Sian Thomas.(R)
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| 19:00 | 19:35How Bach the devout Lutheran set about producing a mass in the Catholic tradition. 19:552/2The conclusion of a day of music by Bach live from the Royal Albert Hall in London.
| 19:30From Wigmore Hall, Igor Levit in piano music by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Prokofiev.
| 19:30Norwegian trumpet virtuoso Tine Thing Helseth performs at the Wigmore Hall in London.
| 19:301/2Kirill Gerstein plays piano music by Brad Mehldau and Brahms at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
| 19:301/2London Bridge Ensemble in Dvorak: Piano Quartet No 1. Daniel Tong (piano) plays Janacek.
| | 19:45Norman Lebrecht explores the life and work of French icon, chanteuse and composer Barbara.(R)
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| 20:00 | | | | 20:20Stefan Zweig's story about the discovery on Lake Geneva of a man clinging to driftwood.(R) 20:402/2Pianist Kirill Gerstein performs music by Haydn and Schumann at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
| 20:10Stephen Johnson explores the intricacies of Dvorak's Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat. 20:302/2The London Bridge Ensemble performs Dvorak's Piano Quartet No 2 in E flat, Op 87.
| | 20:30David Greig's Macbeth sequel, about a man trying to restore peace in a war-torn country.(R)
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:00Susan Aldworth's creation of a portrait of epilepsy now in the National Portrait Gallery.(R) 21:30David Matthews at 70: Clarinet Quartet, Piano Sonata and Cantiga for soprano and orchestra
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| 22:00 | 22:30Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks talks to Joan Bakewell about his beliefs.
| 22:00What history should children learn and be able to contextualise? And what do they know? 22:45Artist Mark Cazalet talks to Joan Bakewell about the beliefs that underpin his work.
| 22:00Paul Nash, Nostalgia and the NHS, genetics with Adam Rutherford and producer John Yorke. 22:45Film director Mira Nair talks to Joan Bakewell about the beliefs that underpin her work.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy talks to writer and historian Diarmaid MacCulloch. 22:45Writer and philosopher Roger Scruton talks to Joan Bakewell about his beliefs.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word. 22:45Stephen Batchelor, a world authority on Buddhism, talks to Joan Bakewell about his beliefs
| 22:30The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Steven Mackey and Christopher Rouse.
| 22:00Mary Ann Kennedy visits the Chants de Vielles Festival in Quebec.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00Music from the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, with Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg.
| 23:15Fiona Talkington presents music from John Martyn, Sigur Ros and Iva Bittova.
| 23:15Fiona Talkington presents music from Kris Drever, Kit Downes and Peter Maxwell Davies.
| 23:15Fiona Talkington with music from Earl Bostic, Kimmo Pohjonen and Manu Delago.
| 23:15Lopa Kothari presents new music from around the world and a session with Los Chinches.
| | 23:00Julian Joseph presents concert music by Martin Taylor and Alan Barnes.
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