| 00:00 | 00:30John Shea presents a concert from the 2014 Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival.
| 00:30With Leif Ove Andsnes in Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 4 at the 2015 Proms.
| 00:30With Leif Ove Andsnes performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 at the 2015 Proms.
| 00:30With Leif Ove Andsnes in Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 5 at the 2015 Proms.
| 00:30John Shea's selection includes music by Qigang Chen, Unsuk Chin and Zhao Jiping.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith recalls the epic saxophone duels between Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00John Shea presents a performance from the 2015 Proms of Shostakovich's Symphony No 7.
| 01:00Catriona Young presents a concert from the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.
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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 | | | | | | 07:00Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 07:00Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Artist of the Week: pianist Clifford Curzon, featured in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: pianist Clifford Curzon, featured in Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor.
| 09:00Includes Artist of the Week: pianist Clifford Curzon, featured in Schubert's Trout Quintet
| 09:00Includes Artist of the Week: Clifford Curzon, featured in Brahms's Piano Sonata in F minor
| 09:00Including Artist of the Week: Clifford Curzon, playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Handel's Alcina.
| 09:00Jonathan Swain with music depicting sorcery and magic, by Caldara, Ligeti, Dukas, Janacek.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Erik Satie's legacy and his controversial Dadaist final works.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores Satie's absurd ballet Parade, a work that caused a riot.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores some of Satie's provocative and humorous miniatures.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod on Satie's midlife crisis, when he went back to school and wrote chorales.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod discusses Satie's earliest and most celebrated work, the Gymnopedies.
| 12:15Tom Service with a portrait of Enescu. Plus Philip Venables on his opera 4.48 Psychosis.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is primatologist Jane Goodall.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Jerusalem Quartet in Beethoven: String Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2. Bartok: Quartet No 6.
| 13:001/4Clare McCaldin, John Mark Ainsley and Iain Burnside perform a selection of English songs.(R)
| 13:002/4Settings of AE Housman's poetry performed at Ludlow English Song Weekend.(R)
| 13:003/4Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir under Paul Spicer in music by Finzi and Stanford.(R)
| 13:004/4Songs by Armstrong Gibbs and Howells performed at Ludlow English Song Weekend.(R)
| 13:00Rob Cowan presents music including Beethoven's Grosse Fuge and Copland's Piano Concerto.
| 13:00Jerusalem Quartet in Beethoven: String Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2. Bartok: Quartet No 6.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4The BBC Singers in Latin American music. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler.
| 14:002/4BBC Singers in Latin American music. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Berio and Elgar.
| 14:053/4BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Satie, Tomasi and Hindemith. Plus BBC Singers in Elgar.
| 14:05Penny Gore presents a rare chance to hear Offenbach's farcical comic opera Le roi Carotte.
| 14:054/4BBC SO in music by Berlioz, Britten and Brahms. Plus BBC Singers in Elgar and Bingham.
| | 14:00Hannah French presents the Flanders Recorder Quartet performing at the Frick Collection.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Tewkesbury Abbey and sung by its Schola Cantorum.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by the idea of 'mutant' beings in the cinema.
| 15:00From Tewkesbury Abbey and sung by its Schola Cantorum.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Suzy Klein presents, with guests including harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents, with live music from Ensemble MidtVest and the Sacconi Quartet.
| 16:30Suzy Klein with live music from European Union Baroque Orchestra and Rachel Podger.
| 16:30Live music from pianist Louis Lortie and jazz composer and pianist Mike Westbrook.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents, with live music from Nikita Boriso-Glebsky and Branford Marsalis.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton's selection includes music by clarinettist Tony Parenti.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets a group of keen gardening singers at the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00A solo performance by singer and pianist Ian Shaw from the 2016 Gateshead Jazz Festival.
| 17:00Tom Service asks when is noise just noise, and when is it music. 17:30Poetry, prose and music focusing on Africa. Readers: Nikki Amuka-Bird and Richie Campbell.(R)
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod focuses on Erik Satie's legacy and his controversial Dadaist final works.(R)
| 18:002/5Donald Macleod explores Satie's absurd ballet Parade, a work that caused a riot.(R)
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod explores some of Satie's provocative and humorous miniatures.(R)
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod on Satie's midlife crisis, when he went back to school and wrote chorales.(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod discusses Satie's earliest and most celebrated work, the Gymnopedies.(R)
| 18:30From the Royal Opera House, with tenor Peter Seiffert, conducted by Hartmut Haenchen.
| 18:45Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Dutch philosopher Benedict Spinoza.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in an all-Stravinsky concert.
| 19:00The Dunedin Consort performs Handel's Messiah at the London Festival of Baroque Music 2016
| 19:30Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No 2 (Resurrection).
| 19:30LSO under Antonio Pappano in Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1 and Mahler: Symphony No 6.
| 19:30From Westminster Abbey, a period instrument performance of Handel's Israel in Egypt.
| | 19:30Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Concentus Musicus Wien in music by Haydn and Beethoven.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | | 21:00Drama exploring what happened to Jessica, Shylock's daughter in The Merchant of Venice.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Tom Service explores Satie, the man and his music, on the 150th anniversary of his birth.(R) 22:451/5Michael Goldfarb discusses the freedom, joy and absurdity of the actor's life.(R)
| 22:00Neil Bartlett on Victorian performer Ernest Boulton and Thomas Thwaites on becoming a goat 22:452/5Michael Goldfarb describes an encounter with writer Philip Roth in New York in the 1970s.(R)
| 22:00Iain Sinclair, Emma Jenkins, Paul Hills and Iain Bell discuss the writing of David Jones. 22:453/5Writer Michael Goldfarb on driving through smouldering ruins in the Bronx in the 1970s.(R)
| 22:00Dame Fiona Reynolds talks to Anne McElvoy about preserving beauty in the countryside. 22:454/5Why 70s New York was a place of violence and economic collapse, but also artistic ferment.(R)
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents a special Poetry Book Club edition, with poet Tony Harrison. 22:455/5Michael Goldfarb explores how New York and its taxi industry have changed since the 1970s.(R)
| 22:302/3Music from Tectonics Festival Glasgow 2016, including Alwynne Pritchard and Jessika Kenney
| 22:30A performance of Handel's Water Music given the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Saxophonist Tim Berne's band Snakeoil in concert at the 2016 Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
| 23:00Adventures in music: Max Reinhardt with Andrea Zarza of the British Library Sound Archive.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt pays tribute to experimental British composer Cornelius Cardew.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt with an exclusive mixtape from progressive electronica artist Gazelle Twin.
| 23:00Kathryn Tickell presents new music plus a live session from Glasgow band Niteworks.
| | 23:30The Amadeus Quartet performs Britten's String Quartet No 3 and the suite Death in Venice.
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