| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a choral concert of Bach, Sandstrom, Part and Gubaidulina.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Camerata Ireland and Barry Douglas play Beethoven, Field and Mozart.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Includes the Emerson Quartet in Mendelssohn, Schubert and Beethoven.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain's selection includes Caldara's oratorio Morte e sepoltura di Cristo.
| 00:30Includes the BBC Philharmonic under Simon Rattle performing Bach's St Matthew Passion.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith celebrates the late recordings of jazz icon Billie Holiday.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Bach's St John Passion given at the 2014 Proms.
| 01:00With John Shea. Includes a performance of CPE Bach's Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu
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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.
| 06:30Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 07:00Martin Handley celebrates gardens in music, with listener requests.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Essential Choice: Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Essential Choice: Stravinsky: Petrushka.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Essential Choice: Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (excerpt).
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Includes Essential Choice: Schoenberg: Six Little Piano Pieces.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Sibelius: Symphony No 4.
| 09:00Rob Cowan's selection of music explores images of spring.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Weir's appointment as associate composer to the BBC Singers.
| 12:002/5Judith Weir talks to Donald Macleod about the challenges of writing for the stage.
| 12:003/5Judith Weir on how elements around her are distilled in the form and language of her music
| 12:004/5Judith Weir discusses her composing method and her sources for finding text.
| 12:005/5Judith Weir discusses the role of a composer in society.
| 12:15Celebrated Russian-born pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy talks to Tom Service.
| 12:00The Reverend Lucy Winkett discusses her musical passions as she prepares for Easter.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Zhang Zuo performs piano music by Schubert and Schumann at Wigmore Hall, London.
| 13:001/4Tenor John Mark Ainsley and pianist Joseph Middleton perform songs by Duparc and Franck.
| 13:002/4Joseph Middleton (piano) and Mary Bevan (soprano) in Duparc, Faure, Chabrier and Debussy.
| 13:003/4Joseph Middleton (piano), Jane Irwin (soprano) in Duparc, Wolf, Liszt, Chausson and Wagner
| 13:004/4Mezzo Catherine Wyn-Rogers and pianist Joseph Middleton in Duparc, Wolf, Schumann, Faure.
| 13:00Raquel Andueza (piano), Jesus Fernandez Baena (theorbo) in music from 17th-century Italy.
| 13:00Zhang Zuo performs piano music by Schubert and Schumann at Wigmore Hall, London.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Jonathan Swain presents the BBC SSO performing music by Beethoven and Vaughan Williams.
| 14:002/4BBC SSO in music by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Stenhammar, Strauss, Rozycki and Tchaikovsky.
| 14:003/4Jonathan Swain presents the BBC SSO performing music by Sibelius, Beethoven and Rozycki.
| 14:00Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen in a performance from the Vienna Staatsoper.
| 14:004/4BBC SSO performs MacCunn, Stenhammar, Rozycki, Berlioz, Rachmaninov and Elgar.
| 14:00Richard Sisson with music celebrating plants, including an aria from Haydn's The Creation.
| 14:00Music with a horticultural influence, performed in the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
| | | | 15:00Easter Festal Evensong from Ely Cathedral.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty with live music from the Amade Players and jazz pianist Andrew McCormack.
| 16:30Presented by Sean Rafferty. With guests from among the 2015 RPS Awards nominees.
| 16:30Live music from guests including the James Taylor Quartet and Max and Alexander Baillie.
| 16:30Pianist Noriko Ogawa, ensemble Red Priest, and composers Jonathan Dove and James MacMillan
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with trumpeter Alison Balsom, conductor John Butt and composer Bob Chilcott.
| 16:00Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music with an antipodean connection.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores how choral composers have been inspired by flowers.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton plays requests marking Billie Holiday's centenary and remembering Clark Terry
| 17:30The Passion seen through ancient and modern eyes with Patrick O'Kane and Houda Echouafni.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod focuses on Weir's appointment as associate composer to the BBC Singers.(R)
| 18:302/5Judith Weir talks to Donald Macleod about the challenges of writing for the stage.(R)
| 18:303/5Judith Weir on how elements around her are distilled in the form and language of her music(R)
| 18:304/5Judith Weir discusses her composing method and her sources for finding text.(R)
| 18:305/5Judith Weir discusses the role of a composer in society.(R)
| 18:00Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and his quartet perform at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh
| 18:45Matthew Sweet explores the science fiction futures of three neglected female writers.
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| 19:00 | 19:30From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
| 19:30Peter Donohoe plays Scriabin, Ravel and Rachmaninov live at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester
| 19:30BBC Concert Orchestra and Philharmonia Chorus/Stephen Cleobury: Haydn, Brahms and Rossini.
| 19:30Andrew Litton leads the BBC SSO in music by Mark Simpson, James MacMillan and Rachmaninov.
| 19:30James MacMillan conducts his St Luke Passion at King's College, Cambridge.
| 19:30Live from Milton Court, Bob Chilcott conducts the BBC Singers and percussionists O Duo.
| 19:30David Goode performs seasonal music on the organ of King's College, Cambridge.
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| 22:00 | 22:451/5Author Ali Smith discusses the first lines of the Lord's Prayer.
| 22:00Matthew Sweet and guests discuss new media culture and the film Blade Runner. 22:452/5Muslim academic Mona Siddiqui explores the second section of the Lord's Prayer.
| 22:00Philip Dodd considers the idea of public and private art. 22:453/5Rabbi Julia Neuberger considers the middle section of the Lord's Prayer.
| 22:00Patricia Duncker talks about George Eliot, and Adrienne Mayor discusses Amazonian women. 22:454/5Michigan-based poet and undertaker Thomas Lynch considers a line from the Lord's Prayer.
| 22:00Ian McMillan explores the language of bureaucracy with Paul Taylor and Heather Phillipson. 22:455/5Poet and author Andrew Motion considers the penultimate lines of the Lord's Prayer.
| 22:00Franck Ollu conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in world and UK premieres.
| 22:002/2After Fanny and Alexander's father dies they move with their mother to the bishop's palace
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| 23:00 | 23:00A celebration of the influential Strata-East label, featuring an all-star band.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe's selection includes Axel Krygier, Ane Brun, Billy Fury and Les Baxter.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe's selection includes Psilosamples, Digitonal and the New Jazz Orchestra.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe's selection includes Mahmoud Ahmed, Francis Bebey and DM Stith.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy presents new music and BBC Introducing artist Nazim Ziryab in session.
| | 23:15A selection of music by Schumann used in Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander.
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