| 00:00 | | 00:30Jonathan Swain presents the second concert from the 2012 Martha Argerich Project, Lugano.
| 00:30Includes Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the 2012 Proms.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Ols Cinxo is the soloist in Mendelssohn's D minor Violin Concerto.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain's selection includes a concert of music by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith celebrates the music of pianist Thelonious Monk, 'the high priest of bebop'
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| 01:00 | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra performing Bach and Zelenka.
| | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces a recital given in Lisbon by pianist Nicholas Angelich.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces a piano recital given by Libor Novacek.
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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 Sarah Walker. Including Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including 20 Great British Works: Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including 20 Great British Works: Holst: The Planets.
| 09:00With 20 Great British Works: Come ye sons of art away (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary)
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including 20 Great British Works: Walton: Symphony No 1.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Dvorak: Stabat Mater.
| 09:00Rob Cowan plays music associated with summer and a cantata by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod follows Elgar from birth to the brink of his first acknowledged masterpiece
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on two works: the Enigma Variations and The Dream of Gerontius.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod focuses on two very different facets of Elgar's musical personality.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod learns how Elgar shunned the coronation of King George V.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on Elgar's life during the First World War and beyond.
| 12:15Tom Service explores music-making in Cornwall, from folk to George Lloyd and Graham Fitkin
| 12:00Poet Paul Muldoon introduces his personal musical choices.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Benjamin Grosvenor performs piano music by Bach, Beethoven, Scriabin and Schulz-Evler.
| 13:001/4Highlights from the opening recital in the Song Prize plus news from the opera rounds.
| 13:002/4Highlights from the second recital in the Song Prize plus news from the opera rounds.
| 13:003/4Highlights from the third recital in the Song Prize plus news from the opera rounds.
| 13:004/4Highlights from the fourth recital in the Song Prize plus news from the opera rounds.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping and David Skinner consider music that might have been heard by Richard III.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given at the 2013 Bath Festival by Florilegium.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/3Penny Gore with music by Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Bax and Edward Gregson.
| 14:002/3Penny Gore with music by Percy Fletcher, York Bowen, Patrick Hadley, Ireland and Stokowski
| 14:003/3Penny Gore presents music by Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan and Richard Rodney Bennett.
| 14:00Penny Gore presents a rare performance of Verdi's opera Aroldo.
| 14:00Penny Gore presents music by William Mathias, Daniel Jones, Beethoven and Piazzolla.
| 14:00Benjamin Grosvenor performs piano music by Bach, Beethoven, Scriabin and Schulz-Evler.(R)
| 14:00The BCMG and Pierre-Laurent Aimard under Oliver Knussen perform at the Aldeburgh Festival.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From St Paul's Cathedral.
| | | 15:00Simon Heffer celebrates music by Coates, Bowen, Vaughan Williams, Rubbra and Finzi.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Guests include the Brodsky Quartet, Susan Bullock and Toby Spence plus Lucy Schaufer.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Korean cult band Geomungo Factory.
| 16:301/2Acts 1 and 2 Opera North's production of Wagner's Siegfried at Leeds Town Hall.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents live music from the Hilliard Ensemble and Nevill Holt Opera.
| 16:30With live music from the Escher String Quartet and Penguin Cafe.
| | 16:00From St Paul's Cathedral.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton's selection of requests includes Chet Baker and Bix Beiderbecke.
| 17:00Paul Spicer explores Britten's choral music. Plus a new work setting William Blake's poems
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod follows Elgar from birth to the brink of his first acknowledged masterpiece
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on two works: the Enigma Variations and The Dream of Gerontius.
| | 18:304/5Donald Macleod learns how Elgar shunned the coronation of King George V.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod focuses on Elgar's life during the First World War and beyond.
| 18:00From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, George Benjamin's new opera Written on Skin.
| 18:30Texts and music on the theme of temptation. Readings by Emma Fielding and Tom Goodman-Hill
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| 19:00 | 19:30Music for choir and saxophones from the BBC Singers and the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet.
| 19:30Live from the London Barbican, a London Symphony Orchestra tribute to Sir Colin Davis.
| | 19:30Simon Hoban introduces the CBSO performing music by Lutoslawski and Sibelius.
| 19:301/2BBC SSO in Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture; Piano Concerto No 1.
| | 19:302/2Donald Macleod presents coverage of the final of Cardiff Singer of the World 2013.
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| 20:00 | | | 20:00Presented by Philip Dodd. Memory Palace at the V&A, and Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory. 20:452/2Adam Tomlinson presents Act 3 of Wagner's Siegfried from Leeds Town Hall.
| | 20:30Writer Rob Cowen travels to the Abernethy Forest in Scotland in search of rare ospreys. 20:502/2BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Titov in Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5.
| 20:001/2Donald Macleod presents the Song Prize Final: five competitors vying for the lieder title.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Matthew Sweet and David Kynaston discuss Britain in the late 1950s. 22:451/5Tessa Hadley on how Dickens paints the reality of his world through characters' houses.(R)
| 22:00Rana Mitter examines the legacy of the War of the Roses at the 2013 York Festival of Ideas 22:452/5Romesh Gunesekera on how Dickens addresses the move from childhood into the world beyond.(R)
| 22:453/5AL Kennedy explores Dickens' literary response to the themes of poverty, misery and death.(R)
| 22:00Anne McElvoy presents arts and cultural debate. 22:454/5Writer Alexander McCall Smith salutes Charles Dickens's mastery of the episodic form.(R)
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents the cabaret of the word, with guests Fred D'Aguiar and Rosie Garland 22:455/5Justin Cartwright reflects on the place that Christmas occupies in Charles Dickens's work.(R)
| 22:30Ivan Hewett introduces music by Elisabeth Lutyens, Priaulx Rainier and Robin Holloway.
| 22:00Lucy Duran presents a review of new world music CDs and a session with Los Desterrados.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson with new music from the Leeds jazz scene: Home of the Brave and Chris Sharkey.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music by John Tavener, Steve Lawson and Daniel Berkman.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music including Sonny Boy Williamson with the Yardbirds.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music from Django Bates and violinist Hilary Hahn.
| 23:00With Mary Ann Kennedy. Including Leon Hunt and Skerryvore from the Shetland Folk Festival.
| | 23:00Kevin LeGendre marks the 40th Anniversary of the death of UK jazz great Tubby Hayes.
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