| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Vox Luminis singing religious works by members of the Bach family.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a piano recital featuring Maria Joao Pires and Julien Brocal.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet from the 2016 Proms.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Michael Berkeley's Violin Concerto.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a concert from Solistes Europeens, Luxembourg.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith selects some of the best recordings by Hammond organ master Jimmy Smith.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Philharmonic in concert at the 2015 Proms.
| 01:00To mark Dinu Lipatti's centenary, John Shea presents music composed and performed by him.
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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 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents a special Free Thinking edition of Radio 3's breakfast show.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents a special Free Thinking edition of Radio 3's breakfast show.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Artist of the Week: Dinu Lipatti, featured performing Chopin's Piano Sonata No 3.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: pianist Dinu Lipatti, featured performing Bach's Partita No 1, BWV825.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: pianist Dinu Lipatti, featuring playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21.
| 09:00With Artist of the Week: pianist Dinu Lipatti, featured performing Grieg's Piano Concerto.
| 09:00With Artist of the Week: Dinu Lipatti, featured in Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor.
| 09:00Andrew McGregor and guests review the best recordings of classical music.
| 09:00Live at Sage Gateshead, Jonathan Swain presents an edition for Free Thinking Festival 2017
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod on how the landscape and myths of Orkney impacted Maxwell Davies's music.
| 12:002/5How Peter Maxwell Davies shocked 1960s audiences with his uncompromising music.
| 12:003/5The composer's mission to break down barriers between composer, performer and audience.
| 12:004/5How the landscape and people of the Orkney Islands influenced Maxwell Davies's music.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod explores Peter Maxwell Davies's late works from the 21st century.
| 12:15At the Free Thinking Festival 2017, Tom Service explores our perception of music and time.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is historian Juliet Nicolson.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London. The Kungsbacka Trio performs Schumann and Ravel.
| 13:001/4Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) plays Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky at LSO St Luke's, London.
| 13:002/4Alexei Volodin (piano) plays Prokofiev, Medtner and Rachmaninov at LSO St Luke's, London.
| 13:003/4Anna Vinnitskaya (piano) performs Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev at LSO St Luke's
| 13:004/4Vadym Kholodenko (piano) performs Rachmaninov and Medtner at LSO St Luke's in London.
| 13:00Richard Sisson presents a selection of music on the theme of time.
| 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London. The Kungsbacka Trio performs Schumann and Ravel.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00The Ulster Orchestra plays music by Britten, Rachmaninov, Holst, Walton, Ades and Sibelius
| 14:00The Ulster Orchestra in music by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Stanford, Sibelius and Nielsen
| 14:00With Ian Skelly. Ulster Orchestra in Haydn, Mozart, Butterworth and Vaughan Williams.
| 14:00Katie Derham presents Nicolai's opera Il templario from the 2016 Salzburg Festival.
| 14:00The Ulster Orchestra in music by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Vaughan Williams and Elgar.
| | 14:00The Avison Ensemble performs Vivaldi's The Four Seasons at Free Thinking 2017 in Gateshead
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the Chapel of Winchester College.
| | | 15:00Live at Sage Gateshead, Matthew Sweet explores the history of music for French cinema.
| 15:00From the Chapel of Winchester College.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include Vladimir Ashkenazy, and the Choir of St Catharine's College.
| 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include saxophonist Courtney Pine and mezzo Rebecca Afonwy-Jones.
| 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include conductor Tomas Hanus and baritone Christopher Purves.
| 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include klezmer band She'Koyokh and conductor Manfred Honeck.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents from Sage Gateshead, launching the 2017 Free Thinking Featival.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton presents a live edition from the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch is live at Sage Gateshead for the Free Thinking Festival 2017.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Performances by Dennis Rollins and Cleveland Watkiss recorded at the Edinburgh Festivals.(R)
| 17:00Tom Service explores how music warps and changes our sense of how time is flowing. 17:30Music and readings on the theme of 'the speed of life'. With Kim Gerard and Samuel West.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod on how the landscape and myths of Orkney impacted Maxwell Davies's music.
| 18:302/5How Peter Maxwell Davies shocked 1960s audiences with his uncompromising music.
| 18:303/5The composer's mission to break down barriers between composer, performer and audience.
| 18:304/5How the landscape and people of the Orkney Islands influenced Maxwell Davies's music.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod explores Peter Maxwell Davies's late works from the 21st century.
| 18:00From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a performance of Rossini's Guillaume Tell.
| 18:45Ken Hollings reassesses the life and career of 1960s media theorist Marshall McLuhan.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Xian Zhang conducts the BBC NOW in music by Britten, Shostakovich and Rimsky-Korsakov.
| 19:30Jordi Savall directs the Academy of Ancient Music in Handel, Lully, Rameau and Marais.
| 19:30LSO, Susanna Mälkki: Brahms's Violin Concerto and Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra.
| 19:30Otto Tausk conducts the BBC NOW in music by Janack, Mendelssohn, Smetana and Dvorak.
| 19:30Royal Northern Sinfonia and pianist Lars Vogt perform Beethoven, Prokofiev and Haydn.
| | 19:30With Beethoven and Ligeti performed in Helsinki and Mussorgsky from Amsterdam.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | | 21:002/2After Fanny and Alexander's father dies they move with their mother to the bishop's palace(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews conductor Simone Young. Plus a tribute to Dinu Lipatti.(R) 22:451/5Author William Fiennes, a sufferer of Crohn's disease, discusss the bowel.(R)
| 22:00Matthew Sweet and guests talk about the doctors in the 17th and the 21st centuries.(R) 22:452/5Author Chibundu Onuzo investigates the 'goldilocks' nature of the thyroid gland.(R)
| 22:00As London hosts two exhibitions of American art, Anne McElvoy discusses the American Dream 22:454/5Poet and artist Annie Freud discusses the kidneys, the body's most hard-working organs.(R)
| 22:00New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari visits exhibitions opening in Gateshead and Newcastle 22:455/5Michigan-based undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch reflects on the uterus.(R)
| 22:001/16Russell Foster delivers the opening lecture of Radio 3's 2017 Free Thinking Festival.
| 22:00Orchestral music by Helen Grime, Sally Beamish, Jay Capperauld and Peter Maxwell Davies.
| 22:15Elin Manahan Thomas introduces a concert of Renaissance polyphony given by Cut Circle.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch with a concert given in Hamburg by trumpeter Avishai Cohen and his quartet.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe is joined by Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with music from Aine O'Dwyer, Lakker, Vicky Langan and Evelyn Dove.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe presents a mixtape compiled by Brooklyn composer Tyondai Braxton.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents new music, plus a live session with English folk artist Jim Moray.
| | 23:15Ian Skelly presents music written and performed in the Terezin and Warsaw ghettos.
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