| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain's selection includes a performance from Poland of Malecki's Spring Summer.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents violin recitals from the Montreal Music Competition 2016.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents more semi-final violin recitals from Montreal.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain with music by Nielsen and Ives performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Nielsen's Symphony No 6 and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith picks highlights from the unique career of vocalist Abbey Lincoln.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents pianist Igor Levit in music by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.
| 01:00John Shea presents archive recordings from the Royal Concertgebouw 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.
| 06:30Georgia Mann 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 | 09:00Artists of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
| 09:00Artists of the Week: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Mozart's Symphony No 38.
| 09:00Artists of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6.
| 09:00Artists of the Week: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Strauss's Ein Heldenleben
| 09:00Artists of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Brahms's Symphony No 4.
| 09:00Andrew McGregor and guests review the best recordings of classical music.
| 09:00Jonathan Swain focuses on music from Spain.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on three enduring influences on Britten.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod charts Britten's first steps as a professional composer.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod focuses on Britten's activities during his years in America.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores the musical fruits of Britten's long partnership with Peter Pears.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod explains how Britten's Peter Grimes heralded a new dawn in British opera.
| 12:15Tom Service explores issues of mental health for professional musicians.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is sculptor Sarah Lucas.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Trombonist Peter Moore and pianist James Baillieu perform at Wigmore Hall, London in 2017.
| 13:001/4Vilde Frang (violin) and Julia Fischer (piano) in music by Schubert and Mendelssohn.
| 13:002/4Vilde Frang (violin) and Julia Fischer (piano) in music by Brahms and Kodaly.
| 13:003/4Vilde Frang (violin) and Julia Fischer (piano) in music by Dvorak and Bach.
| 13:004/4Vilde Frang (violin) and Julia Fischer (piano) feature in music by Handel and Ravel.
| 13:00Rob Cowan presents a selection of music, including Beethoven, Arnold, Chopin and Debussy.
| 13:00Trombonist Peter Moore and pianist James Baillieu perform at Wigmore Hall, London in 2017.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Sibelius, Juon, Ravel and Beethoven.
| 14:002/4Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic plays music by Foulds, Bridge, Walton and Arnold.
| 14:003/4Jonathan Swain features the BBC Philharmonic in music by Sibelius, Hummel and Beethoven.
| 14:00Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas from Paris.
| 14:004/4The BBC SSO performs music by Brahms and Schubert as part of Celtic Connections.
| | 14:00Fiona Talkington explores some of the music found in the Duben Collection.(R)
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Chichester Cathedral on the eve of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet with film music inspired by classic stories of secret maps and lost treasure
| 15:00From Chichester Cathedral on the eve of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch's guests include Francesca Dego, Derek Gripper and Barry Douglas.
| 16:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch include Mahan Esfahani, Daniele Rustioni, Moira Smiley, Crispin Lewis.
| 16:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch's guests include Robert Quinney, Mark Bebbington and Rebecca Omordia.
| 16:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch's guests include Amy Harman, the Castalian Quartet and Rachel Podger.
| 16:30Guests include Paavo Järvi, Gerald Finley and The Hot Club of Jupiter.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton presents listeners' jazz requests from all periods and in all styles.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces choral music, including Bach, Bax and Faure.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Claire Martin with insights and stories of onetime musical partner, Richard Rodney Bennett
| 17:00Tom Service asks if the pictures we see of composers influence the way we hear their music 17:30Texts and music on the theme of swans, with readers Anthony Calf and Louise Jameson.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod focuses on three enduring influences on Britten.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod charts Britten's first steps as a professional composer.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod focuses on Britten's activities during his years in America.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod explores the musical fruits of Britten's long partnership with Peter Pears.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod explains how Britten's Peter Grimes heralded a new dawn in British opera.
| 18:30Mozart's La clemenza di Tito in a performance given at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
| 18:45Sara Mohr-Pietsch investigates the artistic community of New Mexico.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Maria Joao Pires (piano) and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform Dvorak and Mozart.
| 19:30Marin Alsop conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a Philip Glass birthday concert.
| 19:30The Royal String Quartet plays music by Mozart, Glass and Gorecki in Leamington Spa.
| 19:30Music from the Brass Band Festival at the Royal Northern College of Music.
| 19:30Ben Gernon conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens and Debussy.
| | 19:30Ian Skelly introduces an all-Bartok concert given in Cologne.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30The truth behind the story of a wild child found roaming at Crackpot Hall in Swaledale.(R)
| 21:00Gogol's satire on corruption and sleaze, starring Lenny Henry and Roger Allam.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Including the music of Philip Glass and 50 years since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.(R) 22:451/5Farrah Jarral talks about what it means to be fluent in something one does not understand.
| 22:00Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Colin Grant and Kei Miller discuss the Caribbean with Matthew Sweet 22:452/5Glyn Maxwell on whether we have become too black and white, and too binary.
| 22:00With a discussion about anger, Elif Shafak's new novel and a debate about Trumpism. 22:453/5Xiaolu Guo remembers lessons learned from her father growing up in China.
| 22:00Writers and an artist talk borders from Ireland to Turkey with Anne McElvoy. 22:454/5Lindsay Johns explains the inspiration he draws from a black and white photo at his desk.
| 22:00Ian McMillan literary form with writers Claudia Rankine, Don Paterson and AL Kennedy. 22:455/5Poet and writer Salena Godden explains her relationship with her skin.
| 22:00Music by Eastman and Rzewski performed at the 2016 London Contemporary Music Festival.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch presents music from pianist Bobo Stenson and saxophonist Martin Speake.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt's selection includes music from Ann Southam and John Lee Hooker.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt presents the sounds of Suffolk as recorded by Mike Challis.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt presents a mixtape by underground music star Genesis P-Orridge.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents sessions from Celtic Connections 2017 in Glasgow.
| | 23:00Elin Manahan Thomas presents music from medieval Cyprus sung by the Huelgas Ensemble.
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