| 00:00 | 00:30Includs an Arvo Part portrait with Vox Clamantis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
| 00:30Includes Serbian pianist Sara Vujadinovic in music by Brahms, Liszt, Ravel and Prokofiev.
| 00:30Catriona Young's selection includes Les Ambassadeurs in French baroque opera excerpts.
| 00:30Chamber music from the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra: Bach, Mozart and Schubert.
| 00:30Including Andreas Scholl and the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Vivaldi's Stabat Mater.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith presents music for Easter, with New Orleans music including Lester Young.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Catriona Young's selection includes Orthodox choral music from Eastern and Central Europe.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain's selection includes Handel's Messiah, as part of BBC's 18th Century season
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| 06:00 | 06:30Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Featuring music by Handel and listeners' Georgian Gems.
| 06:30Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Featuring music by Handel and listeners' Georgian Gems.
| 06:30Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Featuring music by Handel and listeners' Georgian Gems.
| 06:30Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Featuring music by Handel and listeners' Georgian Gems.
| 06:30Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Featuring music by Handel and listeners' Georgian Gems.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Presented by Martin Handley. Featuring music by Handel and listeners' Georgian Gems.
| 07:00Presented by Martin Handley. Featuring music by Handel and listeners' Georgian Gems.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including 15 Georgian Pleasures: Handel: Judas Maccabeus (excerpt).
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Gay/Pepusch: Why how now, Madame Flirt (The Beggar's Opera).
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including 15 Georgian Pleasures: Boyce: Symphony No 1 in B flat.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Thomas Linley Jr: Overture and opening chorus (Let God Arise).
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Mozart: Violin Sonata in F, K13 (dedicated to Queen Charlotte).
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Nielsen: Symphony No 2.
| 09:00James Jolly selects music for Easter Sunday and presents Beethoven's Violin Sonatas No 5.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod introduces the life and work of Arne.(R)
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod on Arne's differing attitudes to the public and to his friends and family.(R)
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod on Arne's success in Dublin, which was followed by bad fortune in London.(R)
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod on the effect on Arne's career of his bad treatment of his estranged wife.(R)
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod asks whether history been fair on Arne and his legacy.(R)
| 12:15Presented by Tom Service. Featuring Irvine Arditti talking about the LaSalle Quartet.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley talks to the director of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Valentina Lisitsa plays Beethoven and Liszt.
| 13:001/4Tokyo String Quartet and Christian Zacharias (piano) in Mozart, Webern and Scarlatti.(R)
| 13:002/4Christian Zacharias (piano) performs Haydn and Schubert at the 2013 East Neuk Festival.(R)
| 13:003/4The Elias Quartet and Christian Zacharias perform music by Beethoven and Mozart.(R)
| 13:004/4The Tokyo String Quartet and David Watkin (cello) perform Schubert's Quintet in C, D956.(R)
| 13:00Le Concert des Nations and Jordi Savall perform works by Praetorius, Lully and Purcell.
| 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Valentina Lisitsa plays Beethoven and Liszt.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4With Louise Fryer. Berlin Philharmonic in music by Janacek, Wagner, Liszt and Stravinsky.
| 14:002/4The Berlin Philharmonic in music by Beethoven, Mahler, Mendelssohn and Berlioz.
| 14:003/4Berlin Philharmonic in Gabrieli, Rihm, Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Kurtag and Berlioz.
| 14:00Daniel Harding conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust.
| 14:004/4Including Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Bach's St John Passion.
| 14:00Amanda Vickery with music including Vivaldi, Jacquet de la Guerre and Theresia von Paradis
| 14:00Lucie Skeaping explores some of William Hogarth's pictures and their references to music.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Chichester Cathedral during Holy Week.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty with soprano Diana Damrau and pianist Katya Apekisheva.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Ex Cathedra and conductor Kirill Karabits.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty is at Tate Modern's Matisse exhibition. Plus live music in the studio.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents music and guests including Trio Dali and singer Lucie Skeaping.
| 16:45Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from the Band of the Coldstream Guards.
| 16:00Matthew Sweet introduces music from superhero films.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the modern revival of the West Gallery music tradition.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes Bill Harris and Sidney Bechet.
| 17:30Words and music about life on the streets, with readings by Toby Jones and Mariah Gale.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod introduces the life and work of Arne.(R)
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod on Arne's differing attitudes to the public and to his friends and family.(R)
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod on Arne's success in Dublin, which was followed by bad fortune in London.(R)
| 18:004/5Donald Macleod on the effect on Arne's career of his bad treatment of his estranged wife.(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod asks whether history been fair on Arne and his legacy.(R)
| 18:00Claire Martin talks to saxophonist Tim Garland and profiles his latest album.
| 18:45Playwright Mark Ravenhill asks if Shakespeare's genius is beyond question.
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| 19:00 | 19:30A performance given at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London of Cavalli's opera L'Ormindo.
| 19:30The English Concert performs Vivaldi and Pergolesi at Sage Gateshead.
| 19:30The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in the UK premiere of CPE Bach's St John Passion.
| 19:00Orchestre National de France in Stravinsky: Symphony in C. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5.
| 19:30BBC CO under Stephen Cleobury in music by John Tavener, Lutoslawski and Szymanowski.
| 19:30The National Youth Orchestra under Francois-Xavier Roth performs music by Ades and Strauss
| 19:30Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston star in Shakespeare's tragedy of love and power.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | | 21:55Recordings of Handel's early Italian oratorio La Resurrezione and Bach's Easter Oratorio.
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| 22:00 | 22:451/5Madeleine Bunting explores the loss of God as a defining feature of Western democracy.
| 22:00With Anne McElvoy. Historians including Amanda Foreman on 18th-century monarchy and power. 22:452/5Journalist Madeleine Bunting discusses the notion of sin.
| 22:00Matthew Sweet on the lessons about finance outlined in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees. 22:453/5Madeleine Bunting on the decline of Christianity and the loss of the notion of salvation.
| 22:00Philip Dodd explores 18th-century attitudes to the law, crime and punishment. 22:454/5Madeleine Bunting discusses the decline of faith in the UK and with it a loss of patience.
| 22:00Ian McMillan's guests are Lynne Truss, Nancy Elizabeth, Nicholas Royle and Irna Qureshi. 22:455/5Madeleine Bunting on the decline of faith and with it the loss of a notion of sacrifice.
| 22:00Ed McKeon presents orchestral music by Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Frith and George Lewis.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents British experimental group Polar Bear at London's XOYO.
| 23:00With Nick Luscombe. Including music from Little Dragon, Benjamin Dwyer and Joni Mitchell.
| 23:00NIck Luscombe with music from Emmylou Harris, Tito Burns, Xenakis, Bambooman and Seun Kuti
| 23:00Nick Luscombe's selection includes tracks from Scottish folk musician Alisdair Roberts.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents Nuba Nour in session and Part 11 of Commonwealth Connections.
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