| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain introduces a programme of Bach from the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a concert by the vocal ensemble Die Singphoniker.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a concert of Paganini and Tchaikovsky from Romanian Radio.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a concert of Beethoven and Shostakovich given in Denmark.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents performances from Polish composers and musicians.
| | 00:30Geoffrey Smith celebrates some of the stars of the 2016 EFG London Jazz Festival.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music played by the Wihan Quartet from the Czech Republic.
| 01:30John Shea presents Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Schumann's First Symphony.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents, with a new piece by Composer in 3 Matthew Kaner.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents, with a new piece by Composer in 3 Matthew Kaner.
| 06:30Ian Skelly presents, with a new piece by Composer in 3 Matthew Kaner.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents, with a new piece by Composer in 3 Matthew Kaner.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents, with a new piece by Composer in 3 Matthew Kaner.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Elizabeth Alker presents, with a new piece by Composer in 3 Matthew Kaner.
| 07:00Elizabeth Alker presents, with a new piece by Composer in 3 Matthew Kaner.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Artist of the Week: viola player Tabea Zimmermann, featured performing Reger's Suite in D.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: viola player Tabea Zimmermann, featured in Berlioz's Harold in Italy.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: viola player Tabea Zimmermann, featured in music by Sitt and Glazunov.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: viola player Tabea Zimmermann, featured in Bartok's Viola Concerto.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Tabea Zimmermann, featured in Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony.
| 09:00James Jolly marks Remembrance Sunday with works by Finzi, Coles and Holst.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod discusses Schubert's last New Year's Eve party and final song collection.
| 12:002/5Exploring Schubert's brooding personality and the ongoing debate regarding his sexuality.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores Schubert's final mass setting and his interest in Paganini.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod on what killed Schubert. Plus music the composer wrote in his final weeks.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod explores Schubert's very last works and his musical legacy.
| 12:15Donald Trump's cultural credentials, Barrie Kosky's The Nose, and Indian classical music.
| 12:00Writer Geoff Dyer talks to Michael Berkeley about his lifelong passion for jazz.
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| 13:00 | 13:00From Wigmore Hall: Marie-Elisabeth Hecker plays cello works by Bach and Brahms.
| 13:001/4Music by Debussy, Abrahamsen and Beethoven from the Lammermuir Festival 2016.
| 13:002/4Music by Haydn, Bent Sorensen and Brahms from the Lammermuir Festival 2016.
| 13:003/4Highlights from the 2016 Lammermuir Festival, featuring music by Gubaidulina and Beethoven
| 13:004/4Resident artists at the Lammermuir Festival 2016 play Bartok, Dvorak, Bach and Beethoven.
| 13:00Simon Heffer profiles Ravel, with excerpts from the opera L'enfant et les sortileges.
| 13:00From Wigmore Hall: Marie-Elisabeth Hecker plays cello works by Bach and Brahms.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Bantock, Britten, Ginastera, Shostakovich and Ravel
| 14:002/4BBC Symphony Orchestra live at Maida Vale. Plus the BBC Philharmonic in Ginastera, Walton.
| 14:003/4Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic performs music by Britten and Shostakovich.
| 14:00A performance of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera given at the Bavarian State Opera.
| 14:004/4Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic performs music by Elgar, Walton and Strauss.
| | 14:00Zak Ozmo directs L'Avventura London at the 2016 Brighton Early Music Festival.
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| | | 15:00Music for films about contact with new worlds, new people and extra-terrestrials.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include baritone Mark Stone and early music group Fretwork.
| 16:30Clemency Burton-Hill and Roderick Williams with an edition from BBC Maida Vale studios.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents, with conductor Odaline de la Martinez and Ensemble Odyssee.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Anne Sofie von Otter, the Balletboyz and Joey Alexander.
| 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include saxophonist Tim Garland, the 12 ensemble and Jacob Collier.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton presents listeners' jazz requests, including music based on food and drink.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with highlights from the Open category at Choir of the Year 2016.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Claire Martin celebrates the music of vocalist Tony Bennett in his 90th year.
| 17:00Tom Service considers the art of musical improvisation with David Toop and Joelle Leandre. 17:30Texts and music remembering those who died in war over the last century.(R)
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod discusses Schubert's last New Year's Eve party and final song collection.
| 18:302/5Exploring Schubert's brooding personality and the ongoing debate regarding his sexuality.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod explores Schubert's final mass setting and his interest in Paganini.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod on what killed Schubert. Plus music the composer wrote in his final weeks.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod explores Schubert's very last works and his musical legacy.
| 18:30From the Royal Opera House, a new production of Mozart's comic opera Cosi fan tutte.
| 18:45Euphemism and eroticism in Gaelic songs and reappraising sculptor Joseph Nollekens.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Igor Levit plays Beethoven at Wigmore Hall, London: Piano Sonatas Nos 5, 19, 20, 22 and 23
| 19:30Antony Hermus conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Smetana, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.
| 19:30Ian Skelly presents a concert at King's College, Cambridge, featuring the restored organ.
| 19:30Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC NOW in music by Mozart, Prokofiev and Ravel.
| 19:30Guy Barker conducts Jazz Voice, the 2016 EFG London Jazz Festival's opening night gala.
| | 19:30Ian Skelly presents music by Bruch, Brahms and Elgar.
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| 21:00 | 21:5528/50An archive broadcast from 1983 in which James Fenton reads his poem Prison Island.
| 21:5529/50Archive recordings from the 1980s in which Sean O'Brien and Mick Imlah read their poems.
| 21:5530/50Archive recording by Kamau Brathwaite, who reads his poems Calypso and The Emigrants.
| 21:5531/50Archive broadcasts from 1988 in which Wendy Cope reads three of her poems.
| 21:5532/50Archive recording from 1985 by Fleur Adcock, who reads two of her poems.
| | 21:001/3Harold Pinter's plays A Kind of Alaska and Ashes to Ashes, starring Harriet Walter.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Tom Service presents an edition from Vienna with music historian David Wyn Jones.(R) 22:451/5Novelist Ian Sansom fires off a letter to Geoffrey Chaucer...
| 22:00Matthew Sweet with novelists Sarah Perry and Carol Birch. Plus Victorian amusements. 22:452/5Ian Sansom writes an imaginary letter to Jonathan Swift and interrogates him about his art
| 22:00Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews on black Britain. 22:453/5Novelist Ian Sansom pens a missive to George Eliot...
| 22:00Graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and jazz composer Phillip Johnston on their collaboration. 22:454/5A letter of apology to Virginia Woolf from novelist Ian Sansom.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word, with Tom McCarthy and Steve Ely. 22:455/5Novelist Ian Sansom has a theory to put to the Queen of Crime.
| 22:00Revolver and the long shadow of The Beatles on the people of Liverpool. 22:301/2Highlights from the Donaueschingen Festival 2016, including a work by James Dillon.
| 22:30Jordi Savall performs Irish and Scottish music from the 17th to 19th centuries.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch introduces a set performed by trumpeter Laura Jurd and her band Dinosaur.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt is joined by John Doran, editor of online magazine The Quietus.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt's selection includes music from Charles Mingus, Baloji and Simon Holt.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt presents a mixtape from genre-defying pianist and producer Robert Glasper.
| 23:00Soweto Kinch launches the 2016 EFG London Jazz Festival live at the PizzaExpress Jazz Club
| | 23:30The BBC Philharmonic commemorating the Salford Pals, who died at the Battle of the Somme.
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