| 00:00 | 00:00Stephen Hough plays music by Franck and Liszt at the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival 00:30John Shea presents a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis given at the 2016 Proms.
| 00:30John Shea presents a concert given by the Apollon Musagete Quartet.
| 00:30John Shea presents a piano recital given in Warsaw by Boris Berman.
| 00:30Ton Koopman and the Radio France Philharmonic in music by Bach and Mozart. With John Shea.
| 00:30John Shea presents the first of two programmes featuring the San Francisco Symphony.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith explores the pop side of bebop, including Dizzy Gillespie and Woody Herman.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00John Shea presents the second of two programmes featuring the San Francisco Symphony.
| 01:00John Shea features music from former Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
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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, with an update from BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents, with an update from BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents a special edition for BBC Music Day.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents, with an update from BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Elizabeth Alker presents, with an update from BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.
| 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: Alisa Weilerstein, featured performing Dvorak's Cello Concerto.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: cellist Alisa Weilerstein, featured in Schumann's Piano Trio No 3.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Alisa Weilerstein, featured in Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 2.
| 09:00With Artist of the Week: cellist Alisa Weilerstein, featured in music by Bright Sheng.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Alisa Weilerstein, featured performing Elgar's Cello Concerto.
| 09:00Andrew McGregor and guests review the best recordings of classical music.
| 09:00Jonathan Swain presents music from Beethoven, Handel and Frank Bridge.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Exploring Bizet's humble origins as the son of a hairdresser and singing teacher.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bizet's experiencing the sights, sounds and smells of Rome.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod on Bizet's having to return to Paris and make his own way in the world.
| 12:004/5How Bizet resolved to marry his teacher's daughter, despite his many affairs and setbacks.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on how Bizet brought his masterpiece Carmen to the stage.
| 12:15Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to opera star Grace Bumbry and Broadway singer Audra McDonald.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is voice teacher Patsy Rodenburg.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Antoine Tamestit (viola) plays Berg, Vieuxtemps and Brahms
| 13:001/4Kate Molleson presents Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Duparc, and Robert and Clara Schumann.
| 13:002/4Kate Molleson presents music by Liszt, Schumann, Faure and Szymanowski.
| 13:003/4Kate Molleson presents music by Brahms, Wolf, Strauss, Britten and Reynaldo Hahn.
| 13:004/4Kate Molleson presents music by Wagner, Rachmaninov, Delibes, Poulenc and Wolf.
| 13:00American soprano Angel Blue celebrates the voice in song and opera.(R)
| 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Antoine Tamestit (viola) plays Berg, Vieuxtemps and Brahms(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00BBC Philharmonic in music by Copland, Ginastera, Milhaud, Schumann, Ibert and Brahms.
| 14:30The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Joan Tower, Antheil, Copland, Barber and Mussorgsky
| 14:30Live from MediaCityUK in Salford, John Wilson conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Copland.
| 14:30A performance of Giordano's opera Andrea Chenier given at the Royal Opera House.
| 14:30The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Antheil, Copland, Harbison, Saint-Saens and Debussy
| | 14:00Canaletto paintings in the context of Venetian music of the period.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the Temple Church, London, on the eve of Corpus Christi.
| | | 15:00Katie Derham explores the role of the composer in ballet today.
| 15:00From the Temple Church, London, on the eve of Corpus Christi.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Suzy Klein presents, with live music from the Julian Bliss Quintet and Pekka Kuusisto.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents, with live music from baroque group Ensemble Moliere.
| 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include choreographer Richard Alston and bass Brindley Sherratt.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty live from Hatfield House. Guests include Bryn Terfel and Tom Poster.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents, with live music from Quebecois folk band Le Vent du Nord.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton with listeners' jazz requests, including Joe Williams singing The Comeback.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the world of the opera chorus.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a performance of Verdi's Don Carlo.
| 17:00Tom Service explores music's power to describe, illustrate and tell stories in sound.(R) 17:30A sequence of poetry, prose and music, with readings by Siobhan Redmond and Harry Anton.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Exploring Bizet's humble origins as the son of a hairdresser and singing teacher.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bizet's experiencing the sights, sounds and smells of Rome.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod on Bizet's having to return to Paris and make his own way in the world.
| 18:304/5How Bizet resolved to marry his teacher's daughter, despite his many affairs and setbacks.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod focuses on how Bizet brought his masterpiece Carmen to the stage.
| | 18:45Exploring the grid as the great hidden idea behind modernism, art, music and urban design.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Nicholas Collon conducts Aurora Orchestra in music by Richard Ayres and Brahms.
| 19:30Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Igor Levit plays Beethoven's last three piano sonatas.
| 19:30Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla conducts the CBSO in music by Stravinsky, Tippett and Beethoven.
| 19:30Thomas Sondergard conducts the BBC NOW in music Prokofiev, Ravel and Stravinsky.
| 19:30Live coverage of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2017 Song Prize Final.
| | 19:30Petroc Trelawny presents the main final of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30A sound portrait in which artist Graeme Miller captures the poetry of the landline.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Tom Service explores the sound world of nature and wildlife on screen.(R) 22:451/5A mural from the Ajanta caves showing the king of Varanasi on a hunting expedition.(R)
| 22:00Will Self talks to Matthew Sweet about his new novel. Plus a film about RD Laing. 22:452/5William Dalrymple celebrates a remarkable 7th-century rock carving near the Bay of Bengal.(R)
| 22:00Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore our perceived obsession with the self. 22:453/5William Dalrymple examines a 17th-century miniature portrait of the Sultan of Bijapur.(R)
| 22:00Anne McElvoy considers Churchill on the big screen and the legacy of Pocahontas. 22:454/5William Dalrymple discusses a painting by Nainsukh celebrating a leisurely horse ride.(R)
| 22:10Ian McMillan visits celebrated psychoanalytic writer and therapist Adam Phillips. 22:555/5Exploring the Delhi Book, an album containing paintings of 19th-century Delhi.(R)
| 22:00Featuring the music of Argentinian electroacoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra.
| 22:30Attilio Cremonesi conducts Concerto Koln in music by Vivaldi and Telemann.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch presents Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity in concert at London's Vortex club.
| 23:00Award-winning electronic musician Klein joins Verity Sharp for a live session.
| 23:00Verity Sharp with music by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and sitar player Nishat Khan.
| 23:00Radical composer Jennifer Walshe joins Verity Sharp to share new musical discoveries.
| 23:10Kathryn Tickell introduces a live session from Mokoomba, plus new world music releases.
| | 23:30The Amaryllis Quartet perform Haydn and Beethoven at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival.
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