| 00:00 | 00:30John Shea presents a recital given by the Danish String Quartet.
| 00:30John Shea presents an organ recital by Thomas Thon. Music by Nivers, Bach and Petr Eben.
| 00:30The Swedish Radio Chorus sings songs by Mahler, Wagner, Korngold and Schumann.
| 00:30John Shea presents music for Sweden's National Day.
| 00:30John Shea presents a concert from the 2009 Proms with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith selects the highlights from the career of tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00John Shea introduces a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony from the 2012 Proms.
| 01:00Catriona Young with a concert from 2012's Proms, Royal Philharmonic under Vasily Petrenko.
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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 Rob Cowan. Including 20 Great British Works: Tallis: Spem in Alium.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including 20 Great British Works: Handel: Water Music Suite No 1.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including 20 Great British Works: Elgar: Symphony No 1.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including 20 Great British Works: Delius: Brigg Fair.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. 20 Great British Works: Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Byrd: Mass for Four Voices.
| 09:00James Jolly presents Schumann Konzertstücke and a Schütz motet: SWV386.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Exploring the unusual role a drama student, Ursula Wood, played in Vaughan Williams's life
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod reflects on Vaughan Williams's contribution to the effort for World War II.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod introduces two major works completed during the years following the war.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod introduces music by Vaughan Williams for the Queen's coronation in 1953.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on two major works from the last years of Vaughan Williams's life.
| 12:15Tom Service visits Suffolk during preparations for a staging of Peter Grimes on the beach.
| 12:00Poet Sean O'Brien introduces his musical choices for a season featuring British music.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall in London, tenor Werner Gura performs Schubert's Schwanengesang.
| 13:001/4Britten song cycles including On this Island, A Charm of Lullabies and Winter Words.
| 13:002/4Britten song cycles including Tit for Tat and Songs and Proverbs of William Blake.
| 13:003/4Britten song cycles including The Poet's Echo and folksongs, plus the Cello Suite No 3.
| 13:004/4Music by Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne; Cello Sonata in C, Op 65.
| 13:001/2Catherine Bott introduces a programme about the life and music of William Byrd.
| 13:002/2Catherine Bott introduces a programme about the life and music of William Byrd.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Katie Derham presents music by Britten, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Golijov and Wesley.
| 14:002/4With Katie Derham. Featuring the Ulster Orchestra playing music by Britten live in Belfast
| 14:003/4Katie Derham presents music by Britten and Tippett.
| 14:00Katie Derham presents Benjamin Britten's American operetta Paul Bunyan.
| 14:004/4Katie Derham presents music by McCabe, Britten, Mozart, Panufnik and Dvorak.
| 14:00Live from Wigmore Hall in London, tenor Werner Gura performs Schubert's Schwanengesang.(R)
| 14:00John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Sibelius's Symphonies Nos 4 and 2.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30An archive broadcast from Canterbury Cathedral, first transmitted on 7th February 1988.
| | | 15:00Simon Heffer presents music by Bantock, Sterndale-Bennett, Grainger, Elgar and Bliss.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Suzy Klein has live music from the Heath Quartet & Britten cabaret songs by Mark Ravenhill
| 16:30Guests include Ksenija Sidorova, Ross MacGibbon, David Parry, Paul Nilon & Darren Jeffery.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 16:30Suzy Klein with Michael Tilson Thomas, Mark Padmore, Morgan Szymanski and Scanner.
| 16:30With live music from pianist William Howard and recorder quintet Consortium5.
| | 16:00An archive broadcast from Canterbury Cathedral, first transmitted on 7th February 1988.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton presents a selection of requests from listeners focusing on the UK.
| 17:00Vocalists Rebecca Lodge and Neil MacKenzie with highlights from the BBC Singers' archive.
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| 18:00 | 18:151/5Exploring the unusual role a drama student, Ursula Wood, played in Vaughan Williams's life
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod reflects on Vaughan Williams's contribution to the effort for World War II.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod introduces two major works completed during the years following the war.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod introduces music by Vaughan Williams for the Queen's coronation in 1953.
| 18:155/5Donald Macleod focuses on two major works from the last years of Vaughan Williams's life.
| 18:00Placido Domingo stars in a performance of Verdi's Nabucco, given at the Royal Opera House.
| 18:30Texts and music on the theme of the untitled. Readers: Andrew Scott and Amelia Lowdell.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC SSO in a Britten centenary concert from Amsterdam.
| 19:301/2Heath Quartet in Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1. Berg: String Quartet, Op 3.
| 19:30Tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Simon Lepper perform Schubert's song cycle Winterreise.
| 19:30John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Sibelius: Symphony No 1; Symphony No 5.
| 19:151/3From the opening night of the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival, Act 1 of Britten's Peter Grimes.
| | 19:30Tarek Osman explores the significance of the café and how it has shaped the Middle East.
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| 20:00 | | 20:10Stephen Johnson explores the musical language of Beethoven's third Razumovsky Quartet. 20:301/2The Heath Quartet performs Beethoven's String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Razumovsky).
| | | 20:20The history of a traditional song that influenced Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes.(R) 20:402/3From the opening night of the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival, Act 2 of Britten's Peter Grimes.
| | 20:15By David Pownall. The reaction to his Second Symphony heightened Elgar's doubts and fears.(R)
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| 21:00 | | | | | 21:40Simon Barnes on the sounds of the Suffolk coast, which inspired Britten's Peter Grimes.(R)
| 21:00An essay on the writings of WG Sebald, prompted by a theatre version of one of his novels. 21:30The English premiere performance of the late Steve Martland's Sea Songs.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Includes the film Behind the Candelabra, art historian TJ Clark and historian Fern Riddell 22:451/5Links between Northern Irish Protestants and their blood relations, the US Scotch-Irish.(R)
| 22:00With Rana Mitter. Including discussions about China and India. 22:452/5Discussing the Kurds, the world's largest ethnic group without a homeland of their own.(R)
| 22:00Presented by Philip Dodd. With Bill Viola, A Satire of the Three Estatess and Norma Percy. 22:453/5Michael Goldfarb discusses the story of Bosnia's hot war and cold peace.(R)
| 22:00Presented by Anne McElvoy. Including a review of an exhibition devoted to Marc Chagall. 22:454/5Exploring the Germans' long struggle to create a single nation from different entities.(R)
| 22:003/3From the opening night of the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival, Act 3 of Britten's Peter Grimes. 22:455/5Focusing on Europe, Michael Goldfarb asks if old ideas of nationhood are still relevant.(R)
| 22:00Tom Service presents music by Benedict Mason and a world premiere from Brian Ferneyhough.
| 22:00From the 2013 Shetland Folk Festival: The Long Notes, Leon Hunt and Skerryvore.
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| 23:00 | 23:00British large ensemble Troykestra performs at the 2013 Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt's selection includes Marconi Notaro and Gal Costa, and Gwyneth Herbert.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt's selection includes music by Carmen Souza and Theo Pas'cal.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt's selection includes Ensemble Leones, Pat Metheny, Qluster and Radiohead.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents world music and a session from Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan.
| | 23:00Claire Martin with performances from the Linley Hamilton Sextet plus drummer Asaf Sirkis.
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