| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a gala concert for May Day.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain's selection includes the Casals Quartet playing Mozart, Ligeti and Brahms.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a concert of Baroque music by Handel, Gluck, Lully and Hasse.
| 00:30With Proms performances of Elgar's Second and Vaughan Williams's London symphonies.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a concert of rarities, including Wagner's The Feast of Pentecost.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith surveys Chick Corea's various musical alliances across a spectrum of styles(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents an all-Mozart programme with the Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a Croatian concert including Beethoven's Violin Concerto.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show on Young Artists Day.
| 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 Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice Scriabin: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Alkan: Grande Sonate, Op 33.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Liszt: Prometheus.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Schubert: Prometheus. Wolf: Prometheus.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Symphony No 3.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Walton: Cello Concerto.
| 09:00James Jolly begins a cycle of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with No 1 in F, BWV1046.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores Mozart's early life and is joined by pianist Martin James Bartlett
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on the period in which Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No 9.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod focuses on Mozart's time as a freelance musician in Vienna.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod considers why, disheartened in Vienna, Mozart considered moving to London.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod on Mozart's final years and the completion of his final piano concerto.
| 12:15Tom Service talks to pianist Helene Grimaud and discusses Gesualdo with I Fagiolini.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is psychoanalyst and author Stephen Grosz.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00Elias Quartet perform Emily Howard and Schumann, with Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano).
| 13:001/4Michael Collins (clarinet) and friends perform works including Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata.
| 13:002/4Nicole Cabell (soprano) and Simon Lepper (piano) perform music by Poulenc and Ravel.
| 13:003/4Jonathan Lemalu and Joseph Middleton in Poulenc songs, plus Faure, Ibert and Duparc.
| 13:004/4Pascal Roge (piano) performs Poulenc and Ravel at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
| 13:00Les Violons du Roy perform orchestral excerpts from Rameau's dramatic works.
| 13:00Elias Quartet perform Emily Howard and Schumann, with Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano).(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Ian Skelly presents music performed by youth orchestras from Spain and Switzerland.
| 14:001/3Katie Derham presents music by Locatelli, Mozart and Berlioz from Klarafestival 2015.
| 14:002/3Katie Derham with music by Haydn and Mozart, including the latter's Violin Concerto No 5.
| 14:00Katie Derham presents a rare performance of Paisiello's comic opera The Barber of Seville.
| 14:003/3Katie Derham presents Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet as well as music by Mozart.
| 14:00Indian dancer Seeta Patel introduces music including Purcell, Debussy, Chopin and Bartok.
| 14:00Baroque dance specialist Philippa Waite explores the different styles of various dances.(R)
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the Chapel of The Queen's College, Oxford.
| | | | 15:00From the Chapel of The Queen's College, Oxford.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30For Young Artists Day, Sean Rafferty presents an edition from the Roundhouse in London.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include pianists Richard Uttley and Christian Blackshaw.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with folk singer Sam Lee and Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with live music from tenor Toby Spence. Plus Mike Leigh discussing opera.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with guests including pianist Simon Callaghan and the Tippett Quartet.
| 16:00Matthew Sweet presents film music inspired by stories of immortality.
| 16:00Live from Voices Now 2015, a festival of singing at London's Roundhouse.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton's selection includes music from Ornette Coleman and Marlene VerPlanck.
| 17:30Texts and music exploring the themes in Kafka. Readers: Rory Kinnear and Juliet Stevenson.
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| 18:00 | 18:30Scottish composer James MacMillan gives a masterclass to young composers.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on the period in which Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No 9.(R)
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod focuses on Mozart's time as a freelance musician in Vienna.(R)
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod considers why, disheartened in Vienna, Mozart considered moving to London.(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod on Mozart's final years and the completion of his final piano concerto.(R)
| 18:00Live from the Met in New York, Stravinsky's neo-classical opera The Rake's Progress.
| 18:45Misha Glenny traces the footsteps of Franz Kafka in his native city.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Music from the Royal Northern College of Music celebrating Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
| 19:30Barbara Hannigan directs the Britten Sinfonia in music by Mozart, Haydn and Stravinsky.
| 19:30Live from the Lighthouse in Poole, a performance of Verdi's Requiem.
| 19:30The BBC SSO and conductor Alpesh Chauhan in Shostakovich's 15th Symphony.
| 19:30Live from St David's Hall in Cardiff, the BBC NOW and Chorus in Haydn's The Creation.
| | 19:30James Lancelot plays Bach, Julius Reubke and Hindemith on the organ of Durham Cathedral.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30Julian Joseph presents saxophonist Joe Temperley and pianist Brian Kellock in concert.
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| 22:00 | 22:00For Radio 3's Young Artists Day, an edition celebrating young writers and performers. 22:45A new short story by young Nigerian writer Chibundu Onuzo for Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
| 22:00Matthew Sweet and guests talk about the doctors in the 17th and the 21st centuries. 22:45David Hepworth on the changing rituals of courtship, from dance cards to 'hook-up' culture
| 22:00Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with actor Antony Sher. 22:451/5Journalist Madeleine Bunting explains why she believes forgiveness is a choice.(R)
| 22:00Anne McElvoy is joined by novelist Anne Enright and playwright Christopher Hampton. 22:454/5Dr David Starkey delves into the past as well as the present for examples of forgiveness.(R)
| 22:00Ian McMillan explores the world of food writing in Radio 3's cabaret of the word.(R) 22:455/5Michael Symmons Roberts on why he believes forgiveness has to be accompanied by justice.(R)
| 22:30Tom Service portrays composer Thierry Escaich at 50, introducing his Miroir d'ombres.
| 22:00A new adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic The Trial. What has Joseph Kay been accused of?
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents Tomorrow's Warriors Youth Orchestra in concert.
| 23:00Mara Carlyle with new music by Marcus Hamblett and Ore, plus dance music in all styles.
| 23:00Mara Carlyle with tunes about trains and music by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld.
| 23:00With studio guests Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire and Bryce Dessner of The National.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents Scottish-Zambian singer-songwriter Namvula live in session.
| | 23:30David Hill conducts the BBC Singers in music by Judith Weir.
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