| 00:00 | 00:00The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly in Shostakovich's Jazz Suite No 2 00:30With John Shea. Including from Proms 2014: Monteverdi Choir in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
| 00:30John Shea presents a concert given by Pratum Integrum at the 2013 Herne Early Music Days.
| 00:30Performances from the BBC SO of Sibelius and Elgar, with violinist Lisa Batiashvili.
| 00:30John Shea presents music by Butterworth and Vaughan Williams performed at the 2014 Proms.
| 00:30With John Shea. Including the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Walton's Symphony No 1
| | 00:20Geoffrey Smith picks personal favourites by the great saxophonist Charlie Parker.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00With dance music from the court of Louis XIV to the Ballets Russes, featuring Les Siecles.
| 01:20With Chausson and Scriabin from the Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Magnificat.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Elijah (excerpt).
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Schmitt: The Tragedy of Salome.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Schubert: Piano Sonata, D959.
| 09:00James Jolly presents Mozart's Piano Sonata No 9 in D, K311, plus the Sunday Supplement.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5How Verdi rushed to complete his first work for the Paris Opera: the Sicilian Vespers.
| 12:002/5How, after the ordeal of the Sicilian Vespers, Verdi focused on Simon Boccanegra.
| 12:003/5Verdi's agreeing to supply a new work for the Paris Opera, based on Schiller's Don Carlos.
| 12:004/5Exploring the effect on Verdi of the outbreak in 1870 of the Franco-Prussian war.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod uncovers the story behind the completion of Verdi's Requiem.
| 12:15Tom Service in an in-depth interview with conductor Kent Nagano.
| 12:00Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis introduces her personal musical choices.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00Pianist Louis Schwizgebel plays Haydn, Chopin and Liszt.
| 13:001/4Suk, Bacewicz and Schubert from the 2015 Belfast Music Society Chamber Music Festival.
| 13:002/4With Kungsbacka Piano Trio playing Kevin O'Connell and Royal String Quartet in Schubert.
| 13:003/4Kungsbacka Piano Trio in Faure: Piano Trio. Plus Alexander Melnikov (piano) in Schumann.
| 13:004/4The Kungsbacka Piano Trio performs Schubert's Piano Trio No 2 in E flat, Op 100.
| 13:00Concertos by Vivaldi, Corelli and others performed at Schwetzingen by Il pomo d'oro.
| 13:00Pianist Louis Schwizgebel plays Haydn, Chopin and Liszt.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Katie Derham presents Nielsen's Symphony No 1, plus music by Turina, Pierne and Prokofiev.
| 14:002/4Katie Derham with Nielsen's Symphonies Nos 2 and 3, and Rachmaninov, Saint-Saens and Falla
| 14:003/4With Katie Derham. The BBC Philharmonic plays Nielsen's Symphony No 4 and music by Elgar.
| 14:00With Rossini's opera L'inganno felice. Plus the BBC Philharmonic in a live concert.
| 14:004/4Katie Derham presents Nielsen's Symphony No 6, plus Tubin, HK Gruber and Stravinsky.
| 14:00Dan Snow presents music relating to the Napoleonic Wars.(R)
| 14:00Lucie Skeaping presents the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra at the 2014 Montreal Bach Festival.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30An archive recording from St David's Cathedral in Pembrokeshire.
| | | | 15:00An archive recording from St David's Cathedral in Pembrokeshire.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Suzy Klein presents music and guests, with violinists Ning Feng and Ray Chen.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 16:30With live music from Amy Dickson, plus Peter Sellars, Markus Werba and Duncan Chisholm.
| 16:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch's guests include Edgaras Montvidas and members of Chelsea Opera Group.
| 16:30Ian Skelly presents live music from pianist Sunwook Kim and the Brook Street Band.
| 16:00A celebration of Jerry Goldsmith's film music, including for Star Trek: The Motion Picture
| 16:00Bass-baritone Bryn Terfel joins the BBC NOW in a St David's Day gala concert.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton's selection of requests includes music from Baker and Bill Watrous.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5How Verdi rushed to complete his first work for the Paris Opera: the Sicilian Vespers.
| 18:302/5How, after the ordeal of the Sicilian Vespers, Verdi focused on Simon Boccanegra.
| 18:303/5Verdi's agreeing to supply a new work for the Paris Opera, based on Schiller's Don Carlos.
| 18:454/5Exploring the effect on Verdi of the outbreak in 1870 of the Franco-Prussian war.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod uncovers the story behind the completion of Verdi's Requiem.
| 18:00Julian Joseph presents a Scandinavian-themed show featuring saxophonist Marius Neset.
| 18:15Live from St David's Hall in Cardiff, Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a St David's Day celebration.
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| 19:00 | 19:30From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wagner's dark opera Der fliegende Hollander.
| 19:30The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group performs songs for voice and small ensemble.
| 19:30The London Philharmonic Orchestra play Beethoven, Schumann and Mendelssohn.
| 19:45Adam Fischer leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Smetana, Brahms and Dvorak
| 19:30Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Roger Norrington in Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
| 19:30The BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra perform music by Bach and Bruckner.
| 19:30Shakespeare's pastoral comedy of love, lust, cross-dressing and mistaken identity.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | | 21:50Texts and music exploring the idea of infinity. Readings by Saskia Reeves and David Annen.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:451/5Matthew Sweet reflects on an experiment designed to induce fear in a toddler.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy with the 2014 Paul Foot Award winner and Craig Calhoun on valuing the arts. 22:452/5Kier-La Janisse on how educational films scared more children than any horror movie.
| 22:00Philip Dodd discusses the value of the arts and the notion of social identity in Europe. 22:453/5How Thomas Hobbes came to argue that fear underpinned all human motivation and action.
| 22:00Rana Mitter talks to the winner of the biennial David Cohen Prize for Literature. 22:454/5Temple Grandin considers the role fear and anxiety plays in autistic people's lives.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents an 'intellectual' edition of Radio 3's cabaret of the word.(R) 22:455/5Raymond Tallis explains how human fear is often led by thought and imagination.
| 22:15A new radio poem by Lemn Sissay featuring five women's audio diaries of pregnancy. 22:45The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Improvising group Bureau of Atomic Tourism perform at the Vortex jazz club in London.
| 23:00Mara Carlyle features a tribute to the music of the late Lhasa de Sela.
| 23:00Mara Carlyle presents spoken word music, including the debut release of Snowpoet.
| 23:00Featuring a collaboration session with Xylouris White, Pete Wareham and Fanis Karoussos.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents new music and a session from Shashwati Mandal.
| | 23:05The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Beethoven and Vaughan Williams.
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