| 00:00 | 00:30With John Shea. Including the Prague Chamber Orchestra in Mozart: Symphonies Nos 38 and 31
| 00:30John Shea with music from composers with anniversaries: Vanhal, Gretry, Gyrowetz, Popper.
| 00:30Music including Puccini's Tosca, with Jonas Kaufmann, Angela Gheorghiu and Bryn Terfel.
| 00:30John Shea's selection includes Beethoven and Mahler with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
| 00:30With John Shea. Including Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony performed at the 2012 Proms.
| 00:001/2Sequence exploring Britten's preoccupation with the nocturnal, supernatural and creepy.
| 00:002/2Sequence exploring Britten's preoccupation with the nocturnal, supernatural and creepy.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:001/2Presented by John Shea. With Riccardo Chailly in Hindemith and Georg Solti in Shostakovich
| 01:002/2John Shea presents music conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and John Eliot Gardiner.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with Schumann and Charpentier.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with the Tallis Scholars.
| 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, marking Britten 100.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, marking Britten 100.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Includes CD Review Building a LIbrary: Britten: The Turn of the Screw.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Haydn: Symphony No 55.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Brahms: String Quartet, Op 51 No 1.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Mahler: Symphony No 1.
| 09:00Andrew McGregor and John Bridcut review Britten recordings released in 2013.
| 09:00Britten biographer Paul Kildea, tenor Ben Johnson and guitarist Sean Shibe join Suzy Klein
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| 11:00 | | | | | | 11:00Live from Snape Maltings, Suzy Klein presents a Britten concert for children of all ages.
| 11:003/3Members of Ensemble 360 perform Britten's String Quartet No 1, plus a work by Shostakovich
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Britten's early years.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on Britten's work in America.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod focuses on Britten and his companion Peter Pears's return to their homeland
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod on how Britten became the foremost composer of opera in English.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on Britten's final masterpieces.
| 12:15John Bridcut explores Britten's creative relationship with amateur singers.
| 12:30Suzy Klein is joined by composer Colin Matthews, who worked as Britten's assistant.
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| 13:00 | 13:00The Skampa Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet in D, K575. Smetana: String Quartet No 1.
| 13:001/4Florian Boesch (baritone) and Malcolm Martineau (piano) perform Schubert's Schwanengesang.
| 13:002/4Florian Boesch (baritone) and Malcolm Martineau (piano) in Schubert's Die schone Mullerin.
| 13:003/4Soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Joseph Middleton perform a selection of Schubert lieder.
| 13:004/4Baritone Florian Boesch and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform Schubert's Winterreise.
| 13:001/2Andrew McGregor finds out about the 1970s Aldeburgh Festival from those who were there.
| 13:00Maggi Hambling tells Michael Berkeley how Britten has inspired her painting and sculpture.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Penny Gore presents music by Gershwin, Ives, Carter, Argento, Barber, Adams and Beach.
| 14:002/4The BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform American music live at BBC Hoddinott Hall.
| 14:003/4Penny Gore presents music by Bernstein, Sessions, Beach, Thomson, Loeffler and Copland.
| 14:00Penny Gore presents a performance of Viktor Ullmann's opera The Emperor of Atlantis.
| 14:004/4Penny Gore presents music by Adams, Griffes, Gershwin, Rouse, Ives, Loeffler and Harris.
| 14:001/3A Mahogany Opera production of Curlew River, the first of Britten's three Church Parables.
| 14:002/3Britten's second Church Parable The Burning Fiery Furnace, with tenor James Gilchrist.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford.
| | | 15:30Britten's favourite verse with settings by him. Readers: Alex Jennings and Diana Quick.
| 15:30Live from Southwold, the BBC Singers perform some of Britten's best-loved pieces for choir
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| 16:00 | 16:30Suzy Klein presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 16:30Music from pianist Cristina Ortiz and viola player Maxim Rysanov plus soprano Joan Rodgers
| 16:30Suzy Kleins is joined by mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter. Plus live music from I Fagiolini.
| 16:30Suzy Klein with guests, including composer Michael Berkeley and cellist Pieter Wispelwey.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty is in Snape Maltings to begin Britten's 100th birthday celebrations.
| 16:152/2Suzy Klein finds out about the English Chamber Orchestra's role at the Aldeburgh Festival.
| 16:45Tom Service and John Bridcut answer questions about Britten and ask who inspired him.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:55Live from Aldeburgh Parish Church, Ben Parry conducts Britten's cantata Saint Nicolas.
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| 18:00 | 18:15Verdi's Les Vepres Siciliennes from the Royal Opera House.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on Britten's work in America.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod focuses on Britten and his companion Peter Pears's return to their homeland
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod on how Britten became the foremost composer of opera in English.
| 18:45Suzy Klein and John Bridcut discuss Britten's preoccupation with childhood, sport and film
| 18:50Live from the Barbican, Steuart Bedford conducts the BBCSO in Britten's Albert Herring.
| 18:00Louise Fryer presents Noye's Fludde, live from the town of Britten's birth, Lowestoft.
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| 19:00 | | 19:30Live from Cockermouth, the Orchestra of the Swan in music by Mozart, Britten and Schubert.
| 19:30Mozart arias and concertos from soprano Sally Matthews with the English Concert.
| 19:30Martyn Brabbins and the BBC SSO perform music by Britten and Mahler.
| 19:30BBC Symphony Orchestra unde Oliver Knussen in music by Britten and Ryan Wigglesworth.
| | 19:00Suzy Klein, Tom Service and John Bridcut pick highlights from Radio 3's Britten 100 events 19:30Pianist Peter Hill performs music by Bach, Berg, Schoenberg and Messiaen in Sheffield.
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| 22:00 | 22:451/5Why Marcel Proust's Swann's Way was among highlights of a great year for Parisian culture.(R)
| 22:00Doctor Who with Dominic Sandbrook and Ray Monk. The Gettysburg Address. William Tillyer. 22:453/5Martin Sorrell explores on Apollinaire's ground-breaking volume of poetry, Alcools.(R)
| 22:00Director Penny Woolcock talks to Samira Ahmed about working in opera and film. 22:454/5Writer Michele Roberts assesses the impact of Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes.(R)
| 22:00Frances Spalding and Alexandra Harris discuss Myfanwy Piper's libretti for Britten. 22:455/5Adam Gopnik discusses Cubism in 1913 Paris, considering it as a form of poetic realism.(R)
| 22:001/3Benyounes Quartet in Purcell: Fantasias. Britten: String Quartet No 2; Cello Suite No 2.
| 22:002/3The Kuss Quartet in Schubert: String Quartet in G, D887. Britten: String Quartet No 3.
| 22:00Adaptation of WG Sebald's novel about remembering the Holocaust.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00Highlights from the Adventures In Sound improvisation event at 2013's London Jazz Festival
| 23:00Including music by Archie Shepp for the film Titus, plus tracks from Robbie Basho.
| 23:00Anne Hilde Neset presents music from Jakob Ullman, Evan Parker and the Bee Gees.
| 23:00A special collaborative session with Australian band The Necks and saxophonist Evan Parker
| 23:301/2Suzy Klein presents Britten conducting Bach and playing Schubert.
| 23:302/2Tom Service presents Britten conducting Mstislav Rostropovich in Haydn's Cello Concerto.
| 23:30BBC SSO under Andrew Manze in music by Tobias Brostrom, Britte Bystrom and Anders Eliasson
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