| 00:00 | 00:30John Shea introduces Daniel Barenboim conducting the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
| 00:30John Shea introduces the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mahler's Sixth Symphony.
| 00:30John Shea presents the Danish National Symphony Orchestra performing music by Nielsen.
| 00:30John Shea presents a concert including Beethoven's First Piano Concerto with Andras Schiff
| 00:00Stephin Merritt from The Magnetic Fields presents music from his record collection. 00:30John Shea presents a concert from the Minnesota Orchestra's visit to Cuba in May 2015.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith presents favourite tracks by pianist, singer and composer Fats Waller.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00John Shea presents a concert from the Greek National Symphony Orchestra.
| 01:00Catriona Young presents Mahler's Ninth Symphony from the Stuttgart Symphony 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 | 09:00With Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Korngold's Violin Concerto.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2.
| 09:00With Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Brahms's Violin Sonata No 1.
| 09:00With Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Nielsen's Violin Concerto.
| 09:00Including Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Elgar's Violin Concerto
| 09:00Andrew McGregor and guests review the best recordings of classical music.
| 09:00Jonathan Swain introduces music with Egyptian connections, by Verdi, Berlioz and Debussy.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod discusses Rachmaninov's vibrant First Piano Concerto.(R)
| 12:002/5Exploring the work that brought Rachmaninov global fame: his Second Piano Concerto.(R)
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod discusses Rachmaninov's epic and fiendishly difficult Third Piano Concerto.(R)
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4.(R)
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on a late Rachmaninov masterpiece: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.(R)
| 12:15Mariss Jansons talks to Tom Service. Plus a celebration of Scott Joplin, in his centenary.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is German theatre director Thomas Ostermeier.
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| 13:00 | 13:00From Wigmore Hall, London, Gallicantus perform vocal music from 16th-century England.(R)
| 13:001/4The Navarra Quartet play Haydn and the Schubert Ensemble perform Schubert's Trout Quintet.(R)
| 13:002/4With Anna Stephany in French songs and the Schubert Ensemble in a piano quartet by Faure.(R)
| 13:003/4A Schumann song and his final piano trio: No 3 in G minor. Plus a work by Rhian Samuel.(R)
| 13:004/4The Navarra Quartet performs Beethoven's Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131, in Machynlleth.(R)
| 13:00Kathryn Tickell introduces works by Soler, Barber, Ives, Halvorsen, Grainger and Skempton.(R)
| 13:00From Wigmore Hall, London, Gallicantus perform vocal music from 16th-century England.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00The BBC SO performs music by Carpenter, Fairouz, Britten, Walton, Weir and Cooke.
| 14:00The BBC Singers in music by Finzi, Bingham, Parry, Fairouz, Stanford, Delius and Tippett.
| 14:00BBC Singers in music by Stanford, Tippett, Dove, Warlock, Cowie, Grainger and Wikeley.
| 14:00Katie Derham presents a performance of Massenet's opera Thais from the Liceu in Barcelona.
| 14:00Music by Shostakovich, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Handel, Tawadros, Wood, Arne, Elgar and Weir.
| | 14:00Lucie Skeaping features composers active at the court of Mannheim in the late 18th century(R)
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet with music from the films of the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
| 15:00From Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Joshua Bell and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include pianist Melvyn Tan and conductor Alexander Shelley.
| 16:30Featuring Baroque group Florilegium, conductor Alan Gilbert and pianist Vadym Kholodenko.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include the Tippett Quartet and saxophonist Stan Sulzmann.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Benjamin Appl, Elyse Borne and pianist Ivan Ilic.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests, including Duke Ellington's Stompy Jones.
| 16:00Sara talks to Greg Beardsell about the National Youth Choir and their festival this April.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Trumpeter Laura Jurd performs with her group Dinosaur and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
| 17:00Tom Service considers the question of who wrote the first folk song. 17:30Texts and music on the theme of blood, with readings by Indira Varma and Rory Kinnear.(R)
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod discusses Rachmaninov's vibrant First Piano Concerto.(R)
| 18:302/5Exploring the work that brought Rachmaninov global fame: his Second Piano Concerto.(R)
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod discusses Rachmaninov's epic and fiendishly difficult Third Piano Concerto.(R)
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4.(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod focuses on a late Rachmaninov masterpiece: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.(R)
| 18:00A performance of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, recorded at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
| 18:45Sarah Dillon explores the arduous composition of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.
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| 19:00 | 19:30BBC Symphony Orchestra at Proms Dubai. With Joanna Marsh, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Elgar.
| 19:30The Sixteen and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in James MacMillan's Stabat Mater and Tryst
| 19:30Joshua Bell and Sam Haywood - Beethoven, Brahms, Ysaye, Rachmaninov, Sarasate.
| 19:30Live from Cheltenham Town Hall, BBC NOW under Jun Markl in Strauss, Mozart and Beethoven.
| 19:30Spiro with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers celebrate folk music old and new.
| | 19:30Ian Skelly introduces a concert given in Amsterdam, with Schreker, Glinka and Tchaikovsky.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30Documentary about an aspiring disc jockey who turned his life into a cassette radio show.
| 21:00Shakespeare's rarely produced Pericles, in a disturbing new version starring Willard White
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| 22:00 | 22:006/16Terry Waite, Erwin James and Cleo van Velsen on the experience of isolation. 22:456/10Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.
| 22:007/16Bettany Hughes, Richard J Evans and John Hall join Philip Dodd and an audience at Sage. 22:457/10Medical historian Matthew Smith explores 1970s US psychiatry: a time of hope and promise.
| 22:008/16Matthew Sweet introduces a discussion exploring the history of the workplace. 22:458/10Exploring Fynes Moryson's An Itinerary, a European travel book from the early 17th century
| 22:009/16Edwina Currie, Miranda Sawyer and Lola Okolosie explore the different times of our lives. 22:459/10Preti Taneja on the architectural links between Letchworth Garden City and New Delhi.
| 22:00Ian McMillan with an edition for the Free Thinking Festival 2017 exploring 'Englishnesses' 22:4510/10Christopher Harding discusses Tokyo in the early 20th century.
| 22:002/2Recordings from the 2017 Cut and Splice festival, including Murat Colak and Lee Fraser.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch presents cult band Snarky Puppy in concert.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with live tracks from Songhoy Blues from the 2017 BBC Radio 6 Music festival
| 23:00With a session from pop producer Danny L Harle and early keyboard specialist Pawel Siwczak
| 23:00Verity Sharp hosts an experimental gig from Sage Gateshead for Free Thinking Festival 2017
| 23:00Kathryn Tickell introduces a live session from Hungarian folk group Cimbaliband.
| | 23:00Simon Heighes introduces Concerto Copenhagen at the 2016 Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen.
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