| 00:00 | 00:00A selection from William Walton's film music for Henry V. 00:30Catriona Young introduces a concert given by the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra in Brazil.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents cello sonatas from Julian Steckel and Marianna Shirinyan.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a performance of Cavalli's opera Xerse directed by Rene Jacobs.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Bruckner's Ninth Symphony.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents piano duets by Barber, Nancarrow, Bolcom, Rzewski and Bernstein.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith surveys the music of the great saxophonist John Coltrane.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Catriona Young presents a concert including music by Holst, Respighi and Balakirev.
| 01:00Catriona Young presents Janacek and Brahms from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Ian Skelly 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: violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 1
| 09:00Artist of the Week: violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in Mozart's Violin Sonata in E minor.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in Saint-Saens's Violin Concerto No 3
| 09:00Artist of the Week: violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in Brahms's Trio in E flat.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in Britten's Violin Concerto.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Berg: Violin Concerto.
| 09:00James Jolly's selection of music includes Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores Carl Nielsen's childhood on Fyn in the aftermath of the 1864 war.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores the composer's relationship with the Danish capital.
| 12:003/5The impact of marriage, separation from his wife and World War I on the composer.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores the composer's post-World War I life in Sweden.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod explores the composer's final years, lauded but dogged by ill health.
| 12:15Tom Service meets Mark Wigglesworth, the new music director of English National Opera.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is choroegrapher Kim Brandstrup.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Soprano Elizabeth Watts and pianist Julius Drake perform songs by Liszt, Debussy and Hahn.
| 13:001/4The Kungsbacka Trio perform Rachmaninov's mournful Trio Elegiaque and Part's Mozart-Adagio
| 13:002/4Michelangelo Quartet in Haydn: Quartet, Op 76 No 4 (Sunrise) and Bartok: Quartet No 1.
| 13:003/4Pianist Steven Osborne performs Schubert and Rachmaninov at the 2015 Lammermuir Festival.
| 13:004/4Steven Osborne and the Kungsbacka Trio perform works by Rachmaninov and Arensky.
| 13:00Biophysicist and fragrance expert Luca Turin with music connected to his favourite scents.
| 13:00Soprano Elizabeth Watts and pianist Julius Drake perform songs by Liszt, Debussy and Hahn.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Penny Gore with music by Berlioz, Haydn, Victoria, Dean, Sibelius, Tallis and Villa-Lobos.
| 14:002/4Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers.
| 14:003/4Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers.
| 14:00Penny Gore presents a performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
| 14:004/4Penny Gore introduces performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers.
| | 14:00Lucie Skeaping presents the winners of the NCEM Young Composers Award 2015.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30An archive service from St Paul's Cathedral, first broadcast in January 2004.
| | | 15:00Live from London's Barbican, Matthew Sweet celebrates the music of the James Bond films.
| 15:00An archive service from St Paul's Cathedral, first broadcast in January 2004.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty with pianist Alessandro Taverna and conductor Edward Gardner.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with live music from the Leroy Jones Quintet, plus conductor Jane Glover.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with live music from German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents, with composer John Rutter and live music from Louise Dearman.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with live music from Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton's selection of listener requests includes music by JJ Johnson and Mel Torme.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents choral music including Bach and Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00A performance by the James Taylor Quartet at the 2015 Glasgow Jazz Festival.
| 17:30Texts and music on the theme of islands. Readers: Kate Fleetwood and Dominic Mafham.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod explores Carl Nielsen's childhood on Fyn in the aftermath of the 1864 war.(R)
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod explores the composer's relationship with the Danish capital.(R)
| 18:303/5The impact of marriage, separation from his wife and World War I on the composer.(R)
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod explores the composer's post-World War I life in Sweden.(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod explores the composer's final years, lauded but dogged by ill health.(R)
| 18:30Nikolai Lugansky (piano) performs music by Janacek, Schubert, Rachmaninov and Liszt.(R)
| 18:45How a 1927 essay by a former soldier influenced JB Priestley and other writers for decades(R)
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| 19:00 | 19:30Oliver Knussen conducts the Britten Sinfonia in music by Mozart, Knussen and Berg.
| 19:30The Halle perform Berlioz and Tchaikovsky from Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall.
| 19:30The LPO conducted by Markus Stenz play Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
| 19:30From the Barbican, Stephen Hough plays Schubert, Franck, Liszt and his own work.
| 19:30Jan Lisiecki plays piano music by Mozart, Liszt, Mendelssohn and Chopin.
| 19:45Live from Wexford Festival Opera, Sean Rafferty presents Mascagni's Guglielmo Ratcliff.
| 19:30Dvorak's Second Piano Quartet and Enescu's Octet from the Salzburg and Solsberg Festivals.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | | 21:001/3Drama about the radical movements that erupted in the English Civil War in the 1640s.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Tom Service is joined by Australian pianist Roger Woodward.(R) 22:451/5Andrew contemplates whether he actually believes in ghosts.
| 22:00Matthew Sweet and guests including Marina Warner consider the season of the witch. 22:452/5Andrew reflects on sightings, with even Google Street View having recorded a ghost.
| 22:00Philip Dodd with writer Erica Jong, director Richard Jones and economist Ben Bernanke. 22:453/5Andrew considers the contrast between 'solid' Medieval ghosts ephemeral modern sightings.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy discusses healthcare past and present with New Generation Thinker Alun Withey 22:454/5Andrew celebrates the tome Phantasms of the Living.
| 22:00Ian McMillan is joined by Christopher Ricks for a celebration of his critical prose. 22:455/5Andrew tells tales of the undead from resonant times of the year.
| | 22:50Elin Manahan Thomas with a concert of Gesualdo madrigals sung by Collegium Vocale Gent.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson with solo performances from pianist Liam Noble and saxophonist Matana Roberts.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt presents a varied selection of music.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe presents a varied selection of music.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe presents a session featuring Masayoshi Fujita and Guy Andrews.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy with a session from Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, plus new releases.
| 23:00Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea perform new and recent music for violin and piano.
| 23:50Performances of Respighi's Pines of Rome and Adagio con variazione.
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