| 00:00 | 00:00Rumon Gamba conducts the BBC Philharmonic in film music by William Alwyn. 00:30Jonathan Swain's selection includes Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 performed in Poland.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Includes Bach performed by Les Ambassadeurs under Alexis Kossenko.
| 00:30John Shea presents a concert featuring soprano Hana Blazikova and pianist Andreas Staier.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain's selection includes a concert given by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
| 00:30Including a concert by the Danish NSO with soprano Veronique Gens. Presented by John Shea.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith picks highlights from the career of singer Sarah Vaughan.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a recital by pianist Tobias Koch on historic pianos in Poland.
| 01:00With Jonathan Swain. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs Elgar's Symphony No 1.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.
| 06:30Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.
| 06:30Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.
| 06:30Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.
| 06:30Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Presented by Martin Handley. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.
| 07:00Presented by Martin Handley. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Artists of the Week: the Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Smetana's String Quartet No 2.
| 09:00Artists of the Week: Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Dvorak's String Quartet in G.
| 09:00Artists of the Week: The Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Pavel Haas's String Quartet No 2.
| 09:00Artists of the Week: The Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Janacek's String Quartet No 2.
| 09:00Artists of the Week: The Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Schubert's Death and the Maiden.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
| 09:00Rob Cowan explores pastoral music and presents Beethoven's First Cello Sonata.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on the first of Bach's annual Leipzig cantata cycles.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores Bach's first known passion oratorio, the St John Passion.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores what came to be known as Bach's 'Great Passion': the St Matthew.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bach's trinity of oratorios: for Christmas, Easter and Ascension
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bach's B Minor Mass.
| 12:15Pianist Murray Perahia talks to Tom Service about the music which currently occupies him.
| 12:00For Radio 3's Classical Voice, Michael Berkeley is joined by singer Alison Goldfrapp.
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| 13:00 | 13:00The Gould Piano Trio performs music by York Bowen and Schubert at Wigmore Hall in London.
| 13:001/4Performances by Nadine Koutcher (soprano), Jaeyoon Jung (tenor), Celine Forrest (soprano).
| 13:002/4Performances by Lauren Michelle, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Anais Constans and Ilker Arcayurek.
| 13:003/4With performances by Aviva Fortunata, Nico Darmanin, J'nai Bridges and Insu Hwang.
| 13:004/4Performances by Sebastian Pilgrim, Marina Pinchuk, Jongmin Park and Regula Muhlemann.
| 13:00Tenor Ben Johnson performs a programme of Schubert lieder.
| 13:00The Gould Piano Trio performs music by York Bowen and Schubert at Wigmore Hall in London.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Verity Sharp presents the BBC NOW performing Finzi, Elgar, Stanford, Mendelssohn and Holst
| 14:002/4The BBC NOW performs music by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Strauss.
| 14:003/4Verity Sharp presents the BBC NOW performing Rossini, Mozart, Respighi, Verdi and Elgar.
| 14:00Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright's opera Prima Donna, starring Janis Kelly.
| 14:004/4Verity Sharp presents the BBC NOW in Ravel, Lalo, Saint-Saens, Widor, Faure and Durufle.
| 14:00In a special live programme, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa introduces her favourite pieces of music.
| 14:00Lucie Skeaping introduces vocal music from the French Baroque by Lully and Charpentier.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the Chapel of King's College London.
| | | | 15:00From the Chapel of King's College London.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty is joined by tenor James Gilchrist and conductor Adrian Butterfield.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty is joined by the Escher Quartet who perform live in the studio.
| 16:30Guests include Ailish Tynan, Paul Curran and perfomers from Swept Away at Kings Place.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with viol trio Fantasticus and pianist Freddy Kempf, who perform live.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents music and guests from BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015.
| 16:00Live from Cardiff, Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music for film inspired by opera.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a special edition from Cardiff for Radio 3's Classical Voice season
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton introduces listeners' requests as well as live music from pianist Geoff Eales
| 17:30Texts and music inspired by the love between women. Readers: Diana Quick and Sophie Ward.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod focuses on the first of Bach's annual Leipzig cantata cycles.(R)
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod explores Bach's first known passion oratorio, the St John Passion.(R)
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod explores what came to be known as Bach's 'Great Passion': the St Matthew.(R)
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bach's trinity of oratorios: for Christmas, Easter and Ascension(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bach's B Minor Mass.(R)
| 18:00A preview of 2015's Glasgow Jazz Festival and music from Andy Sheppard/Rita Marcotulli.
| 18:45Mary King explores how advances in our knowledge of anatomy are changing the way we sing.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Erik Nielsen conducts WNO's new production of Richard Ayres's Peter Pan.
| 19:30City of London Sinfonia in music of Georgian London, by Haydn, Mozart, JC Bach and Handel.
| 19:30Andris Nelsons conducts the CBSO in Mahler's Symphony No 3 and a work by Eriks Esenvalds.
| 19:30BBC Philharmonic in Nielsen's Symphonies Nos 6 and 3, plus music by Mahler.
| 19:301/2Coverage of the Song Prize Final of the 2015 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
| 19:30Faure, Ravel, Medtner and Strauss sung by soprano Olena Tokar with pianist Igor Gryshyn.
| 19:302/2Iain Burnside presents coverage of the final of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Tom Service in conversation with the composer and conductor Oliver Knussen.(R) 22:451/5Julia Blackburn looks for the ghost of Napoleon on St Helena, where he died in exile.(R)
| 22:00Director John Boorman talks about his film-making career with Matthew Sweet. 22:452/5Writer Andrea Stuart celebrates Napoleon's first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais.(R)
| 22:00Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks to Philip Dodd about confronting religious violence. 22:453/5Writer Adam Nicolson recalls being a teenager as father wrote about Napoleon and 1812.(R)
| 22:00New Generation Thinker Laurence Scott talks to Rana Mitter about living in a digital world 22:454/5Kirsteen McCue discusses singing and interpreting James Hogg's Scottish Napoleonic songs.(R)
| 22:15Ian McMillan presents the word cabaret from Cardiff for the BBC's Classical Voice season.
| 22:00Tom Service presents highlights from the 2014 Donaueschingen and Borealis Music Festivals.
| 22:00August Strindberg's shocking play from 1890 about an imploding marriage, in a new version.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents pianist Alexander Hawkins and his trio in concert at London's Cafe Oto
| 23:00With Fiona Talkington. Including music from Arvo Part, Emily Portman and Anouar.
| 23:00Presented by Fiona Talkington, with music from Verneri Pohjola, JPP and A Filetta.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington's varied selection includes Christian Fennesz and Ola Gjeilo.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents a BBC Introducing session from Tibetan singer Ngawang Lodup.
| | 23:30A performance of Bob Chilcott's 2012 'environmental cantata' The Angry Planet.
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