| 00:00 | 00:30Catriona Young presents a concert performed by the Swedish Radio Chorus and Andrew Manze.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a concert given by the Alexander String Quartet in Warsaw.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents the Slovenian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra in Haydn and Nielsen
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a recital of piano music by Mompou, Albeniz and Granados.
| 00:30John Shea presents a performance from Denmark of Sven-David Sandstrom's St John Passion.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith presents music for Easter, with New Orleans music including Lester Young.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Catriona Young presents a performance of JE Bach's Passion Oratorio.
| 01:00For Easter Sunday, Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Rachmaninov's Vespers.
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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 | | | | | | 07:00With Martin Handley. Including music by Handel, Bach, Beethoven and Berlioz.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli. With Puccini's E lucevan le stelle (Tosca).
| 09:00Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli, featured in music by Mascagni and Leoncavallo.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli, featured performing music by Rossini and Verdi.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli, in music by Stefano Donaudy and Agustin Lara.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli, featured performing music by Bizet and Giordano.
| 09:00Andrew McGregor and guests review the best recordings of classical music.
| 09:00James Jolly with music by Constant Lambert, Ravel and Rachmaninov.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Dvorak's very rapid rise to fame in the 1870s.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores Dvorak's life-changing relationship with Brahms.
| 12:003/5Two completely contrasting, yet pivotal, works: Dvorak's Stabat Mater and Moravian Duets.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores how Dvorak's Slavonic Dances set off 'Dvorakmania' in Germany.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod explores works that made Dvorak's name, from Berlin to Brooklyn.
| 12:15Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to pianist Andreas Haefliger and visits a musical monastery.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is tenor Mark Padmore.
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| 13:00 | 13:00From Wigmore Hall, Kitty Whately and Joseph Middleton with a programme of English song.
| 13:001/4With songs by Mahler and Wagner performed at the 2016-17 Leeds Lieder festival.
| 13:002/4With songs by Mahler and Ives performed at the 2016-17 Leeds Lieder festival.
| 13:003/4Songs by Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler and Liszt from the 2016-17 Leeds Lieder Festival.
| 13:004/4Songs by Mahler and Schumann performed at the 2016-17 Leeds Lieder festival.
| 13:00Edward Seckerson presents a personal selection of music from the theatre.
| 13:00From Wigmore Hall, Kitty Whately and Joseph Middleton with a programme of English song.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00The BBC Philharmonic in music by Wagner, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Lindberg and Ravel.
| 14:00The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Gade, Mendelssohn, Bach, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky.
| 14:00Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic performing music by Mozart, Bruch and Elgar.
| 14:00Penny Gore introduces Purcell's Shakespearean The Fairy Queen masque.
| 14:00Live from Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Penny Gore presents Bach's St Matthew Passion.
| | 14:00Lucie Skeaping presents music associated with Mary Magdalen.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Chester Cathedral during Holy Week.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music on the theme of Easter.
| 15:00Easter Festal Evensong from Norwich Cathedral.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include violinist Daniel Hope, conductor Vasily Petrenko and Voces8
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Cyrill Ibrahim, Marin Alsop and Thomas Atkins.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include trumpet player Philip Cobb and conductor Bramwell Tovey.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include the Norwegian National Youth Choir, Min Kym and Anna Harvey
| | 16:00Alyn Shipton's selection includes music by the late Horace Parlan.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets conductor Stephen Cleobury and hears about his life in music.
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| 17:00 | | | | | 17:30Sean Rafferty presents music and guests, including violinist Jack Liebeck.
| 17:30Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a performance of Verdi's Aida.
| 17:00Tom Service investigates how music can tug on our heartstrings like nothing else.(R) 17:30Texts and music about 'being in the dark'. Readers: Emily Bruni and Robert Bathurst.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod focuses on Dvorak's very rapid rise to fame in the 1870s.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod explores Dvorak's life-changing relationship with Brahms.
| 18:303/5Two completely contrasting, yet pivotal, works: Dvorak's Stabat Mater and Moravian Duets.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod explores how Dvorak's Slavonic Dances set off 'Dvorakmania' in Germany.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod explores works that made Dvorak's name, from Berlin to Brooklyn.
| | 18:45Jon Gower uncovers the work of pioneering naturalist RM Lockley.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Roussel and Saint-Saens.
| 19:30The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain performs music by Shostakovich and Revueltas
| 19:30John Butt directs the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales in Bach's St John Passion
| 19:30Live from the Barbican, London, Martin Handley presents a performance of Dvorak's Requiem.
| 19:30Live from King's College Cambridge. Music by Mozart, Bruckner, Mendelssohn and Brahms.
| | 19:30The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra in Nielsen, Leopold Mozart, Lindberg and Sibelius.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | | 21:00When Shakespeare's Richard II banishes Bolingbroke he brings about his own downfall.
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| 22:00 | 22:0013/16Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris explore time and place in modern Britain. 22:451/5Biographer Claire Harman discusses Charlotte Bronte's experience as a governess.(R)
| 22:0014/16Carlos Frenk, Eugenia Cheng, Jim Al-Khalili and Louisa Preston debate time and space. 22:452/5Claire Harman on the two years Charlotte Bronte spent as a mature student in Belgium.(R)
| 22:1515/16Jay Griffiths, Vincent Deary, Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss our mental health.
| 22:0016/16Tim Birkhead and Phyllis Lee on long-lived animal species and their survival strategies. 22:454/5Jane Shilling explores a letter Charlotte Bronte wrote shortly before beginning Jane Eyre.(R)
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents a special Poetry Book Club edition, with poet Tony Harrison.(R) 22:455/5Novelist Rachel Joyce on how Charlotte Bronte reacted to becoming a literary sensation.(R)
| 22:00Radio 3's flagship contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch presents a concert set played by American saxophonist Seamus Blake.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe's selection includes music from Lizabett Russo and Susso.
| 23:00Broadcaster Zakia Sewell joins Nick Luscombe to share some song recommendations.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe's selection includes Moor Mother, Aphex Twin, The Analog Girl and Thundercat
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents a special live session from Portuguese singer Antonio Zambujo.
| | 23:10Barocco Boreale at the Liminka church as part of the Oulu Music Festival in Finland.
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