| 00:00 | 00:30Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment perform Brahms and Schumann. With Catriona Young.
| 00:30Orchestra of Eighteenth Century and Frans Bruggen in piano concertos by Mozart and Chopin.
| 00:30Cellist Pau Codina performs Bach and Brahms. Catriona Young presents.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents performances by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from the 1990s.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents performances by the Orchestre National de France and Fabien Gabel.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith presents a personal journey, taking in great musicians and great music.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Catriona Young presents an oratorio from Croatia In Praise of Saints Cyril and Methodius.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents performances by the National Youth Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, featuring the British Music Playlist and your requests
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, featuring the British Music Playlist and your requests
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, featuring the British Music Playlist and your requests
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, featuring the British Music Playlist and your requests
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, featuring the British Music Playlist and your requests
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Breakfast, featuring the British Music Playlist and your requests.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Breakfast, featuring the British Music Playlist and your requests.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Sarah Walker and her guest, the garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker and her guest, the garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker and her guest, the garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker and her guest, the garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker and her guest, the garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Beethoven: Symphony No 2.
| 09:00James Jolly presents his selection of music, plus the week's Beethoven violin sonata.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Monteverdi is sick of Mantua. Venice beckons, as the best music job in Italy falls vacant.
| 12:002/5A son rebels, a piece of musical theatre is commissioned and a deadly plague hits Venice.
| 12:003/5Featuring Monteverdi's eighth book of madrigals, Of War and Love.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod on Monteverdi's penultimate operatic masterpiece, The Return of Ulysses.
| 12:005/5Monteverdi's masterpiece, the thrillingly immoral Coronation of Poppea.
| 12:15Tom Service talks to Daniel Harding, a book and an opera by Poulenc and songs by Faure.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is singer Laura Mvula.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Ronald Brautigam plays Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn.
| 13:001/4Mozart's 'Hunt' Quartet and Ravel's Piano Trio from the 2013 Bath Mozartfest.
| 13:002/4Chamber music and songs by Mozart, Janacek and Tchaikovsky from the 2013 Bath Mozartfest.
| 13:003/4Chamber music and songs by Glinka and Schubert from the 2013 Bath Mozartfest.
| 13:004/4Chamber music and songs by Schubert, Mozart, Salieri and Dvorak from Bath Mozartfest 2013.
| 13:00The European Union Baroque Orchestra play music by Bach, Leclair and Rameau in Copenhagen.
| 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Ronald Brautigam plays Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4BBC orchestras play music including Debussy, Honegger, Saint-Saens and Florent Schmitt.
| 14:002/4BBC orchestras play music including Sibelius, Britten, Salonen and Shostakovich.
| 14:003/4The BBC Symphony Orchestra play music by Brahms, Elgar and Swiss composer Dieter Ammann.
| 14:00Placido Domingo stars in Verdi's Nabucco, recorded at the Royal Opera House in 2013.
| 14:004/4Penny Gore presents Dvorak, Mahler and Sibelius played by BBC orchestras.
| 14:00BBC technology expert LJ Rich presents a selection of her favourite classical music.
| 14:00Charles Burney's 18th-century musical travels through Germany and The Netherlands.(R)
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30Live from Southwark Cathedral.
| | | | 15:00Live from Southwark Cathedral.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. With tenor Ian Bostridge singing and pianist Stephen Hough.
| 16:30Guests include Onyx Brass, Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments and David Pountney.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with composer Nico Muhly, harpist Lavinia Meijer and guitarist James Boyd.
| 16:30Guests include pianist Jeremy Denk, soprano Claire Rutter and conductor Gianluca Marciano.
| 16:30Tom Redmond presents an edition from Salford, featuring Bridie Jackson and the Arbour.
| 16:00Matthew Sweet considers film music for The Wizard of Oz.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the world of barbershop, plus a Choral Classic from Verdi.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton's selection of requests include Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis and Cleo Laine.
| 17:30John Sessions and Indira Varma set out on linguistic roads paved with good intentions.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Monteverdi is sick of Mantua. Venice beckons, as the best music job in Italy falls vacant.
| 18:302/5A son rebels, a piece of musical theatre is commissioned and a deadly plague hits Venice.
| 18:303/5Featuring Monteverdi's eighth book of madrigals, Of War and Love.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod on Monteverdi's penultimate operatic masterpiece, The Return of Ulysses.
| 18:305/5Monteverdi's masterpiece, the thrillingly immoral Coronation of Poppea.
| 18:00Claire Martin and Julian Joseph present highlights from the BBC Young Musician Jazz Award.
| 18:45A portrait of a magnificent and mischievous musical spirit, György Ligeti.
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| 19:00 | 19:30The Fine Arts Quartet plays quartets by Shostakovich, Debussy and Schubert.
| 19:30The Gould Piano Trio perform live at the Bath International Music Festival.
| 19:30Live from Wigmore Hall, The English Concert plays Handel and Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
| 19:30The Halle Choir and Orchestra play Brahms's Nanie and Mahler's 9th Symphony.
| 19:30The English Music Festival, live from the abbey in Dorchester-on-Thames.
| 19:30Faure's Requiem and Poulenc's Mamelles de Tiresias with the BBC SO, Chorus and Singers.
| 19:30Live from Perth Concert Hall, the RLPO play Elgar and Prokofiev.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Peter Brook 1925-2022: the theatre director in conversation with Matthew Sweet in 2013.(R) 22:451/5Professor Fiona Stafford on the workhorse of the forest, the pine tree.
| 22:00Iain Sinclair talks to Matthew Sweet about a walk to mark John Clare's death 150 years ago 22:452/5Professor Fiona Stafford on hawthorn trees, which have divided Britain for centuries.
| 22:00Lawrence Norfolk, AS Byatt, Wendy Cope, Bidisha and David Mitchell on writers' notebooks. 22:453/5Fiona Stafford discusses the apple tree, which has been loved and hated for centuries.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy looks at the resurgence of non-fiction writing and the essay as a form. 22:454/5Fiona Stafford on the poplar, the most modern tree and the first to have its DNA sequenced
| 22:00A special archive repeat of The Verb with John Ashbery who died on 3rd Sept 2017. 22:455/5Rowan is a magical tree, equally feared and loved, taking over our cities and parks.
| 22:001/3Robert Worby with recordings from the 2014 Tectonics Festival: Berhman, Wolff and Oswald.
| 22:002/3Dion Boucicault's classic melodrama about Abolition and the role of theatre in politics.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00New York trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire in concert at the 2014 Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington with a varied mix of music, ranging from the ancient to the contemporary.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents a varied mix of music.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington with a varied mix of music, ranging from the ancient to the contemporary.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy with a live session from Mamane Barka, plus Commonwealth Connections.
| | 23:30A sequence of music by Gyorgy Ligeti to complement our Sunday Feature.
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