| 00:00 | 00:30Catriona Young presents a concert of Bach motets with the Swedish Radio Chorus.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a concert from the Kerteminde Chamber Music Festival in Denmark.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a performance of Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte.
| 00:30With Catriona Young. Including the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at Proms 2014
| 00:30The Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra performs symphonies by Schubert and Zemlinsky.
| 00:00Music and sounds from the two 1977 Voyager spacecraft chosen to represent human beings.
| 00:00An all-night performance of Max Richter's eight-hour epic, Sleep.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Presented by Catriona Young. Concerto Copenhagen performs music by Bach and his family.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny 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, live from Wellcome Collection.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Artist of the Week: pianist Stephen Kovacevich, featured in Bach's Partita No 4, BWV828.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: pianist Stephen Kovacevich, featured in a work by Stravinsky.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Stephen Kovacevich, featured in Schubert's Piano Sonata in A, D959.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: pianist Stephen Kovacevich, featured in music by Bartok.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Stephen Kovacevich, featured in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5.
| 09:00Andrew McGregor discovers the neurological benefits of listening to and performing music.
| 09:00Sarah Walker explores the science behind music's ability to stir the emotions.
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| 10:00 | | | | | | 10:30Claudia Hammond on how music influences the youthful brain and many aspects of our lives.
| 10:30Exploring the neurological basis of musically generated moments of peak emotion.
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| 11:00 | | | | | | 11:30Marcus du Sautoy explores how patterns from nature appear in music from Bach to Messiaen.
| 11:30Victoria Williamson explores music and memory in works by Beethoven, Franck and Stravinsky
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod introduces some of Bellini's early works.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod on Bellini's rapid success in the opera world and a blossoming love affair.
| 12:003/5How a failed opera became successful by recycling music for I Capuleti e I Montecchi.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bellini's friendship with Italian soprano Giuditta Pasta.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bellini's early death at the age of 33.
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| 13:00 | 13:00From Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Kathryn Stott in Faure, Franck, Ravel and Fitkin.
| 13:001/4Highlights from the 2015 West Cork Chamber Music Festival: Ravel, Janacek and Ades.
| 13:002/4Music by Beethoven and Borodin from the 2015 West Cork Festival.
| 13:003/4Music from the 2015 West Cork Festival, by Ligeti, Mozart and Ian Wilson.
| 13:004/4Including Brahms arr Alan Boustead: Serenade in D, Op 11 and Webern: Langsamer Satz.
| 13:00Tom Service discovers how music can be used as a means to manipulate and control us.
| 13:00Michael Berkeley is joined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Frank Wilczek.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Katie Derham presents the BBC SSO playing Britten, Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams and Bruch
| 14:002/4Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra performs music by Mozart.
| 14:003/4With Katie Derham. The BBC SSO performs music by Berlioz, Bruch, Elgar and Beethoven.
| 14:00Stravinsky's Persephone in a performance from Aix-en-Provence, plus music from the BBC SSO
| 14:004/4Ian Skelly presents the BBC SSO in music by Bruch, Sibelius, Beethoven and Stenhammar.
| 14:00Psychiatrist Dr Richard Kogan shows how some composers' mental illness shaped their music.
| 14:00Tom Service and Steven Mithen explore music's origins in human evolutionary development.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Portsmouth Cathedral.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Clarinetist Michael Collins and pianist Nicholas McCarthy perform live in the studio.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with conductor Mark Elder and organist Margaret Phillips.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include pianist Ji Liu, who plays live in the studio.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with guests including tenor Juan Diego Florez and comedian Alistair McGowan.
| 16:30Live from Wellcome Collection, Sean Rafferty launches Radio 3's Why Music? weekend.
| 16:00Texts and music on the theme of the power of music. With Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings.
| 16:00Chris Watson demonstrates connections between the sounds of nature and human music-making.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:15Tom Service is joined by Victoria Williamson and Philip Ball answer listeners' questions.
| 17:00The Clerks led by Edward Wickham discover the links between music and language.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod introduces some of Bellini's early works.(R)
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod on Bellini's rapid success in the opera world and a blossoming love affair.(R)
| 18:303/5How a failed opera became successful by recycling music for I Capuleti e I Montecchi.(R)
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bellini's friendship with Italian soprano Giuditta Pasta.(R)
| 18:30Author Philip Ball asks why music is such a universal human trait.
| 18:00Julian Joseph presents live performance from Finn Peters, Martin Speake and Neil Cowley.
| 18:30Tom Service and Sarah Walker round up Why Music? with Victoria Williamson and Philip Ball.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Peter Phillips conducts the Tallis Scholars in music by Taverner, Sheppard and Byrd.
| 19:30The BBC Singers at the RAF Museum, marking the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
| 19:30Bernard Haitink conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Purcell, Beethoven and Brahms.
| 19:30Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Mahler's Symphony No 3.
| 19:30The BBC Concert Orchestra with music including Judith Weir, Frank Bridge, Elgar and Barber
| 19:30Claudia Hammond and guests including Adam Ockleford and Mary King discuss music and health
| 19:30Music by Tchaikovsky: String Sextet (Souvenir de Florence) and the Violin Concerto.
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| 21:00 | | | | | 21:30Sam Lee and Simon Broughton explore what songs from around the world have in common.
| | 21:00Arnold Wesker's landmark play portraying the age-old battle between realism and idealism.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Pianist Alfred Brendel talks to Tom Service about his life, career and new book on music.(R) 22:45Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to reflect starting with Mark Ravenhill.(R)
| 22:00Steve Silberman on autism, Gillian Tett on silos and Lynda Nead on 'fallen women'. 22:45Christina Patterson reflects on the skin and her own experience of living with acne.(R)
| 22:00Ceramicist Edmund de Waal and author Orhan Pamuk are in conversation with Philip Dodd. 22:45Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to reflect. In this edition Daljit Nagra(R)
| 22:00With novelist Margaret Atwood, exploring the history of mankind and an exhibition on Celts 22:45Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to reflect. In this edition, Ned Beauman(R)
| 22:30Max Reinhardt and Gemma Cairney present music from the Body of Songs project.
| 22:00Tom Service presents live performance of world premieres and recent music.
| 22:40La Fenice and Vox Luminis perform sacred music by Charpentier in Stockholm.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Manchester big band Beats and Pieces perform music from their album All In.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington's selection features Tigran Hamasyan, Michael Duch and Edgard Varese.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington's selection includes Ballake Sissoko, Viv Corringham and John Coltrane.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington's selection includes music from Bartok and Sun Ra.
| | | 23:40Music by Schumann: Marchenbilder, Op 113, and Etudes en formes de variations, Op 13.
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