| 00:00 | 00:30Catriona Young presents a performance of Britten's War Requiem conducted by Andris Nelsons
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a concert from the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a performance of Noskowski's opera Revenge for the Boundary Wall.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a concert from Warsaw featuring Mahler's Sixth Symphony.
| 00:00Violinist Nigel Kennedy introduces an exclusive mixtape of his favourite tracks. 00:30Catriona Young presents a 1968 recital of Mozart and Debussy given by pianist Fou Ts'ong.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith presents music to set the scene for the New Orleans Mardi Gras.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Catriona Young presents a concert from Warsaw of music by Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler.
| 01:00Catriona Young presents a concert from the Boston Symphony Orchestra from the 2015 Proms.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill 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 | 09:00Artists of the Week: London Sinfonietta, featured playing Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat.
| 09:00Including Artists of the Week: London Sinfonietta, featured performing music by Takemitsu.
| 09:00Including Artists of the Week: London Sinfonietta, featured performing Tavener's The Whale
| 09:00Including Artists of the Week: London Sinfonietta, featured playing music by Weill.
| 09:00Artists of the Week: London Sinfonietta, featured performing Gorecki's Symphony No 3.
| 09:00Andrew McGregor and guests review the best recordings of classical music.
| 09:00James Jolly presents a full performance of Charles Ives's Second Symphony.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod on Gade's early life, leading up to his breakthrough work, Echoes of Ossian
| 12:002/5How Gade responded musically to prevailing artistic currents in Copenhagen.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod considers Mendelssohn's influence on his protege, Niels Gade.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores why Gade made a momentous decision to return to Denmark in 1848.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod assesses Gade's contribution to Denmark's musical history.
| 12:15Tom Service talks to the creators of a new opera based on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guests is writer on families Andrew Solomon.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00The Van Kuijk Quartet play Schubert and Ravel at Wigmore Hall in London in 2017.
| 13:001/4Haydn and Schubert performed at the 2016 Vilabertran Schubertiade in Catalonia.
| 13:002/4Brahms, Albeniz and Schubert performed at the 2016 Vilabertran Schubertiade in Catalonia.
| 13:003/4Music by Schubert and Weber performed at the 2016 Vilabertran Schubertiade in Catalonia.
| 13:004/4Music by Haydn, Shostakovich, Duparc and Sgambati from the 2016 Vilabertran Schubertiade.
| 13:00Andrew Biswell with music that inspired Anthony Burgess, for the centenary of his birth.
| 13:00The Van Kuijk Quartet play Schubert and Ravel at Wigmore Hall in London in 2017.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Bax, Haydn, Ades and Bruckner.
| 14:00Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra in music by Brahms and Schumann
| 14:00The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Coates, Weill and Mozart.
| 14:00Donizetti's Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, in a production from the Florence Opera House.
| 14:00BBC Philharmonic in Sibelius, Prokofiev, Debussy, Ravel, Vaughan Williams and Haydn Wood.
| | 14:008/9Lucie Skeaping delves into Handel's opera Alcina, with musical director Alan Curtis.(R)
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Rochester Cathedral.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet with film music inspired by family matters.
| 15:00From Rochester Cathedral.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Pina Napolitano, Matthew Martin and Jeremy Summerly.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Patricia Kopatchinskaja, David Curtis and Laurence Cummings
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Susan Bickley, Leigh Melrose, Simon Callow and Tabea Debus.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Alison Balsom and Laura van der Heijden.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Leveret, James MacMillan and Anthony Hewitt.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton presents requests, including music from Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets the choir Musarc and reflects on Veljo Tormis with Paul Hillier.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00A performance given by American vibraphonist Joe Locke at the 2016 Glasgow Jazz Festival.(R)
| 17:00Tom Service explores the finale from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. 17:30Texts and music on the theme of the suburbs, with readers Emily Joyce and Philip Frank.(R)
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod on Gade's early life, leading up to his breakthrough work, Echoes of Ossian
| 18:302/5How Gade responded musically to prevailing artistic currents in Copenhagen.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod considers Mendelssohn's influence on his protege, Niels Gade.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod explores why Gade made a momentous decision to return to Denmark in 1848.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod assesses Gade's contribution to Denmark's musical history.
| 18:00Live from the Met in New York, Dvorak's opera Rusalka, starring soprano Kristine Opolais.
| 18:45Samira Ahmed explores how Victorian art critic John Ruskin revolutionised girls' education
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| 19:00 | 19:30Elim Chan conducts the RSNO in music by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Rachmaninov.
| 19:30The BBC Singers and St James's Baroque perform Mozart's Litaniae and Requiem.
| 19:30The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs music by Edison Denisov, Berg and Shostakovich.
| 19:30The pianist joins Ilan Volkov and the BBC SSO for Rachmaninov's Second Concerto.
| 19:30Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in music by Stravinsky, Ligeti and Ravel.
| | 19:30Ian Skelly introduces music by Haydn, Telemann and Brahms.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | | 21:00Christopher Eccleston as Oedipus in Anthony Burgess's adaptation of this great tragedy.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews Maurizio Pollini. Plus the centenary of George Malcolm.(R) 22:451/5Stuart Kelly on the role that Prince Albert played in the invention of modern Scotland.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy hears from cartoonists and curators about creating memorable images. 22:452/5Stuart Kelly discusses educationalists AS Neill and Kurt Hahn.
| 22:00Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Jules Pretty, Andrew Scott, Philip Coupland, Matthew Kelly 22:453/5Stuart Kelly on the career of Willa Muir, who translated Kafka and other German writers.
| 22:00Philip Dodd considers the importance of 'play' in the way our city centres are designed. 22:454/5Stuart Kelly discusses Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka and German artist Joseph Beuys.
| 22:00Ian McMillan and guests examine the language of persuasion.(R) 22:455/5Stuart Kelly addresses the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his Scottish translator.
| 22:00Flux Quartet in Nancarrow, Chiu, Anderson and Gordon. Plus a tribute to Pauline Oliveros.
| 22:45Programmes featuring performances of early music.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch presents a complete performance of Kenny Wheeler's Sweet Sister Suite.
| 23:00Verity Sharp's selection includes pianist Omar Sosa and vocalist Seckou Keita.
| 23:00Verity Sharp hosts a session between throat singer Tanya Tagaq and producer Ash Koosha.
| 23:00Verity Sharp hosts an experimental gig from Fuse Art Space Bradford.
| 23:00Kathryn Tickell presents new music from around the world, plus a live session from Kefaya.
| | 23:45The BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yutaka Sado performs Dvorak's New World Symphony No 9.
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