| 00:00 | 00:302/2Jonathan Swain presents Shakespeare-inspired music, featuring the West German Radio Chorus
| 00:30With pianist Francesco Piemontesi in works by Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy and Ligeti.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Bach's Goldberg Variations performed by Andras Schiff.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a concert of baroque music reflecting Greek legends.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a concert from the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra.
| | 00:00A celebration of Nat "King" Cole the pianist, on the day of his centenary
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a concert of virtuosic violin pieces conducted by Zakhar Bron.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents Rachmaninov's Vespers from the BBC Singers in Liverpool Cathedral.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Ian Skelly 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 | 09:00Artist of the Week: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, featured in Beethoven: An die ferne geliebte
| 09:00With Artist of the Week: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, in Wolf's Italian Songbook (selection).
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, featured in Mahler's Kindertotenlieder.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, featured in Brahms's Four Serious Songs.
| 09:00With Artist of the Week: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, featured in Schubert's Schwanengesang.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schubert's Piano Trio in E flat, D929.
| 09:00James Jolly explores music for three performers and presents Elgar's In the South.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod on how the aftermath of the English Civil War set stiff tests for Purcell.
| 12:002/5Donald explains how Purcell tailored his music to varied contemporary styles.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod on Purcell's journeys through the political highways and byways of his day.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod introduces Purcell's colourful circle of singers and players.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod on how Purcell found himself at the centre of a disastrous lottery scheme.
| 12:15Tom Service visits Opera North for the premiere of Pleasure and interviews Mark Simpson.
| 12:00Actor Roger Allam talks about his passions for music and Shakespeare.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Music by Tchaikovsky and Mozart from the Borodin Quartet with Michael Collins (clarinet).
| 13:001/4The Gould Trio performs Shakespeare-inspired works by Schumann, Korngold and Beethoven.
| 13:002/4Iestyn Davies and Elizabeth Kenny perform lute songs by Dowland, Purcell and others.
| 13:003/4David Hill conducts the BBC Singers in Kodaly, Swayne, Charles Wood and Mantyjarvi.
| 13:004/4James Gilchrist (tenor) and Anna Tilbrook (piano) perform Shakespeare settings.
| 13:00Actor Rory Kinnear presents a personal selection of music for voice.
| 13:00Music by Tchaikovsky and Mozart from the Borodin Quartet with Michael Collins (clarinet).(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4The BBC Philharmonic in music by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Copland and Strauss.
| 14:002/4The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Mozart, Dvorak, HK Gruber and Stravinsky.
| 14:003/4Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic in music by Sibelius, Reger, Ives and Antheil.
| 14:00Katie Derham presents a concert performance from Barcelona of Rossini's opera Otello.
| 14:004/4The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Albeniz, Haydn, Britten, Rachmaninov and Smetana.
| | 14:00Flautist Ashley Solomon talks to Lucie Skeaping about 25 years of the ensemble Florilegium
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet presents music from films set in and after the Holocaust.
| 15:00From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from Benjamin Appl and Benjamin Grosvenor.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from German-Japanese pianist Caterina Grewe.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents, with guests including Max Richter and Sir Mark Elder.
| 16:40With live music from John Wallace, Martin Hayes with Dennis Cahill plus Waltraud Meier.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents, with Alban Gerhardt and Pumeza Matshikiza performing live.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton's selection of requests includes music from Ben Webster and Art Tatum.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces choral music by Haydn, Bach and Hoagy Carmichael.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00A special live edition celebrating International Jazz Day, with saxophonist Stan Sulzmann.
| 17:00Tom Service explores how to get a piece of music off to a good start. 17:30Texts and music on the theme of the wind. Readings by Cheryl Campbell and Neil Pearson.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod on how the aftermath of the English Civil War set stiff tests for Purcell.(R)
| 18:302/5Donald explains how Purcell tailored his music to varied contemporary styles.(R)
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod on Purcell's journeys through the political highways and byways of his day.(R)
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod introduces Purcell's colourful circle of singers and players.(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod on how Purcell found himself at the centre of a disastrous lottery scheme.(R)
| 18:00Live from the Met, Strauss's Elektra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. With Nina Stemme.
| 18:45Laura Barton explores the silences and intimacies of Shakespeare's plays.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the Halle in music by Stravinsky, Bach and Schumann.
| 19:30The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Rouse, Ravel, Dessner and Bernstein.
| 19:30The BBC Philharmonic in music inspired by Shakespeare, with new works and one by Prokofiev
| 19:30Ilan Volkov conducts the CBSO in music by Debussy, Hans Abrahamsen and Mahler.
| 19:30The Royal Northern Sinfonia conducted by Lars Vogt in music by Smetana, Mozart and Dvorak.
| | 19:30Ian Skelly presents performances of music by Mozart, Beethoven and Paganini.
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| 20:00 | | | | | | 20:30The BBC Philharmonic performs an extended suite from Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30An exploration of the history and the development of the language of the call for help.
| 21:00Eve Best and Danny Sapani star in Shakespeare's late play The Winter's Tale.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Tom Service on the music in Shakespeare's plays and Shakespearean music from BBC archives.(R) 22:451/5How Shakespeare's heroines helped transform Victorian schoolgirls into Edwardian activists
| 22:00Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books which inspired Shakespeare. 22:452/5James Loxley explores what Shakespeare's plays say about questions of national identity.
| 22:00Sam West, Carol Rutter and Michael Dobson join Matthew Sweet to discuss The Winter's Tale. 22:453/5Joan Fitzpatrick explains her new research on what people ate in Shakepeare's England.
| 22:00Playwright Howard Brenton and director Adrian Noble discuss dramas depicting TE Lawrence. 22:454/5Preti Taneja considers Shakespeare's King Lear as a lens through which to view India today
| 22:00Ian McMillan's guests on the cabaret of the word include poet Maura Dooley. 22:455/5Siobhan Keenan on the importance of touring to Shakespeare and the actors in his plays.
| 22:00Exploring the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Embedded scheme for young composers.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch presents a world premiere of new music by pianist Hans Koller.
| 23:00Adventures in music, ancient to future: Nick Luscombe presents new records from Estonia.
| 23:00Adventures in music, ancient to future: Nick Luscombe with Derek Walmsley from The Wire.
| 23:00Adventures in music, ancient to future: Group A and pianist Steve Beresford in session.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari introduces a session from BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winner Sam Kelly.
| | 23:30Highlights of a concert given by Concerto Copenhagen in Garrison Church, Copenhagen.
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