| 00:00 | 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Including Rachmaninov Vespers from Croatian Radio-Television Chorus.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Including Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony from the 2013 Proms.
| 00:30Featuring music by Telemann performed at the Music in Paradise Festival in Poland.
| 00:30With Proms performances of Elgar's Second and Vaughan Williams's London symphonies.
| 00:30Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexander Melnikov in a concert from Brussels.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith celebrates the musical career of double bassist Charles Mingus.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a concert from the 2014 Classical Nights in Girona festival.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Beethoven's Fourth and Mahler's First symphonies.
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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, featuring listener requests.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Artist of the Week: cellist Steven Isserlis, featured in Haydn's Concerto in C, H VIIB 1.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: cellist Steven Isserlis, featured in Faure's Cello Sonata No 2.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: cellist Steven Isserlis, featured in Prokofiev's Cello Concerto.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: cellist Steven Isserlis, featured in Grieg's Cello Sonata in A minor.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: cellist Steven Isserlis, featured in Saint-Saens's Cello Concerto No 2
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Verdi: Requiem.
| 09:00Rob Cowan explores opera-inspired music and starts a season of Schoenberg chamber music.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores how Vanhal became one of the most celebrated musicians of his age.
| 12:002/5Tracing the young Vanhal's journey from common serf to the fashionable salons of Vienna.
| 12:003/5Vanhal secures an all-expenses paid trip to Italy but all was not as well as it seemed.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod discusses Vanhal's new career as an independent musician.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on Vanhal's adopting a new, overtly populist musical direction.
| 12:15A profile of composer Morton Feldman and Christian Thielemann's book My Life with Wagner.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley talks to physicist Athene Donald.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live chamber music from London's Wigmore Hall, by Rebecca Clarke, Martinu and Brahms.
| 13:001/4From the 2015 Cheltenham Music Festival, music by Schumann and Schubert.
| 13:002/4Music by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Nielsen, featuring the Danish String Quartet.
| 13:003/4With the Danish String Quartet in music by Beethoven and the Armida Quartet in Faure.
| 13:004/4From Cheltenham, music by Vaughan Williams, Jonathan Dove, Florentine Mulsant and Dvorak.
| 13:00Baritone Roderick Williams explores the new Ten Pieces.
| 13:00Live chamber music from London's Wigmore Hall, by Rebecca Clarke, Martinu and Brahms.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Kieko Abe, Grieg, Coleridge-Taylor and Tchaikovsky.
| 14:002/4The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Schubert, Haydn Wood, Chopin and Tchaikovsky.
| 14:003/4BBC Philharmonic in music by Mozart, Elgar and Tchaikovsky. Plus a work by Anna Clyne.
| 14:00Katie Derham presents a performance of Lalo's four-act opera La Jacquerie.
| 14:004/4BBC Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky, Ravel, HK Gruber, Delius and Pierne. Plus Shostakovich.
| | 14:00Fiona Talkington presents a profile of violinist Bjarte Eike and his group Barokksolistene
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30Live from Lincoln Cathedral.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by the history and culture of Scotland.
| 15:00Live from Lincoln Cathedral.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Suzy Klein presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 16:30With live music from soprano Sarah Gabriel, pianist Viv Mclean and the Marmen Quartet.
| 16:30Live music from Philharmonia Chamber Players and Jeni Bern and Tiffany Graves.
| 16:30Live music from English Touring Opera, plus a New Generation Artists Scheme announcement.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents a special Ten Pieces edition live from Thomas Tallis School in London.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton introduces listeners' suggestions for the ten essential jazz records.
| 16:00Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. London Voices demonstrate extended vocal techniques.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Bassist Michael Janisch showcases new project Paradigm Shift at the Vortex in London.
| 17:30Texts and music celebrating railways, with readings by Jonathan Pryce and Eleanor Bron.(R)
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod explores how Vanhal became one of the most celebrated musicians of his age.(R)
| 18:302/5Tracing the young Vanhal's journey from common serf to the fashionable salons of Vienna.(R)
| 18:303/5Vanhal secures an all-expenses paid trip to Italy but all was not as well as it seemed.(R)
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod discusses Vanhal's new career as an independent musician.(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod focuses on Vanhal's adopting a new, overtly populist musical direction.
| 18:15Donato Renzetti conducts Rossini's La gazza ladra at the 2015 Pesaro Festival.
| 18:45What is Celtic identity? Professor Dai Smith searches for the essence of Celticism.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Nelson Goerner (piano) performs Handel, Schumann, Chopin and Scriabin at Wigmore Hall.
| 19:30Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC SSO. Glazunov: Violin Concerto. Mahler: Symphony No 10.
| 19:30The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble in Mozart, Rossini and Schubert.
| 19:30Edward Gardner conducts the CBSO in Sibelius's Symphony No 5, plus Mozart and Mendelssohn.
| 19:30Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Vasily Petrenko in Tchaikovsky, Berio and Strauss.
| | 19:30Ian Skelly presents Mozart and Brahms, including the Vienna Philharmonic from Salzburg.
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| 21:00 | 21:45Tom Service discovers how music can be used as a means to manipulate and control us.(R)
| | | | | | 21:00Drama about a young woman finding her voice at a time of unprecedented social change.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:451/5Novelist and critic Ian Sansom focuses on why 'average' has become a byword for mediocrity
| 22:00David Hare discusses his career in playwriting and his memoirs with Matthew Sweet. 22:452/5Ian Sansom discusses the scientific measurement of the average man and woman's dimensions.
| 22:00Philip Dodd presents a discussion about populism in politics and culture. 22:453/5The changing concept of the average working week in an age of zero hours contracts.
| 22:00Matthew Sweet looks at Macbeth on film and talks to Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro. 22:454/5Novelist and critic Ian Sansom goes in search of the 'average' man or woman.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents, with guests Candace Bushnell, Will Abberley and Chris Green. 22:455/5Ian Sansom on the most 'average' place in the UK and what is 'Middle England'.
| 22:001/2Music including Luc Ferrari, Clara Iannotta, Dawn Scarfe, Henry Cowell and Cathy van Eck.
| 22:50Simon Heighes introduces works by Monteverdi, Landi, d'India and other Italian composers.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Previously unheard tracks by bassist Barry Guy from the Jazz on 3 archives.
| 23:00Mara Carlyle presents a varied selection of music.
| 23:00Mara Carlyle presents a varied selection of music.
| 23:00Mara Carlyle presents a varied selection of music.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy broadcasts live from Glasgow with Karen Matheson in session.
| | 23:50Gorecki's String Quartet No 2 (Quasi una fantasia) played by the Silesian String Quartet.
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