| 00:00 | 00:00The perfect commuter music, and why it's OK to wear jeans to the opera. 00:30A celebration of the 100th anniversary of Estonia presented by John Shea.
| 00:30Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov at the 2015 BBC Proms.
| 00:30With the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the 2018 Proms.
| 00:30Choral music from the 2018 Schaffhausen Bach Festival in Switzerland. With John Shea.
| 00:30The Dunedin Consort and John Butt perform Bach's St John Passion.
| 00:30Global beats and roots music from every corner of the world.
| 00:00Recordings by xylophone virtuoso Red Norvo.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Reinhard Keiser's Der blutige und sterbende Jesus (Passion Oratorio). With John Shea.
| 01:00The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, directed by Ton Koopma, performs Bach's Mass in B minor.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including the Friday poem.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 07:00Elizabeth Alker presents Breakfast including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Ian Skelly with the best in classical music.
| 09:00Ian Skelly with the best in classical music.
| 09:00Ian Skelly with the best in classical music.
| 09:00Ian Skelly with the best in classical music.
| 09:00Ian Skelly with the best in classical music.
| 09:00Latest recordings with Andrew McGregor and Building a Library on Schumann's Piano Concerto
| 09:00Sarah Walker with a broad range of music, including her Sunday Escape.
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| 11:00 | | | | | | 11:45Sara Mohr-Pietsch speaks to transgender singers from around the world.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Berg meets Schoenberg and his composition takes off.
| 12:00Berg meets and marries Helene Nahowski.
| 12:00Berg suffers a brutal time in the army and writes a shocking, brilliant opera.
| 12:00Berg meets and falls in love with Hanna Fuchs-Robettin.
| 12:00Berg dies from an infected insect sting and his wife Helene sets up a shrine to his memory
| 12:30Jess and Sam share music by Debussy, Dowland, Bowie and Berlioz two ways.
| 12:00The Reverend Lucy Winkett discusses her musical passions as she prepares for Easter.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Tabea Zimmermann and friends play Debussy and Stravinsky.
| 13:00The Calidore String Quartet play favourite quartets by Prokofiev and Beethoven.
| 13:00Schumann and Mendelssohn played by pianist Zee Zee with members of the Calidore Quartet.
| 13:00The Calidore String Quartet play Golijov's Tenebrae and Beethoven's String Quartet, Op 131
| 13:00Caroline Shaw and Chausson played by the Calidore Quartet, Jennifer Pike and Zee Zee.
| 13:00Hear a leading musician open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.
| 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Tabea Zimmermann and friends play Debussy and Stravinsky.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Music by Pettersson, Schumann, Berlioz and Brahms.
| 14:00Music by Glinka, Gothe, Beethoven, Sally Beamish and Richard Strauss.
| 14:00Music by Bach, Rautavaara and Shotakovich.
| 14:00James Conlon conducts a concert version from Turin with Tomas Tomasson in the title role.
| 14:00Repertoire by Victoria, Jonathan Weeks, Schutz, Kenneth Leighton and Paul Drayton.
| | 14:00Lucie Skeaping with different settings of the Tenebrae services held during Holy Week.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30Live from Canterbury Cathedral.
| | | 15:00Katie Derham talks to the new artistic director at Rambert, Benoit Swan Pouffer.
| 15:00Live from Southwell Minster on Easter Day.
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| 16:00 | | | 16:30Tenor Alessandro Fisher and cellist Andrei Ionita perform works by Head and Carwithen.
| | 16:30Tom Service asks why music has always been an essential part of mourning.
| 16:00Jazz records from across the genre, as requested by Radio 3 listeners.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an irresistible mix of music and singing.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Radio 3's Drivetime programme
| 17:00Radio 3's Drivetime programme
| 17:00Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00Julian Joseph presents a live session from young pianist Elliot Galvin and his trio.
| 17:00Tom Service looks at why we are all so tense and silent during classical concerts. Shhhh! 17:30Robert Powell and Josette Simon with words and music about pilgrimage through the ages.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:30Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York – Mozart's La clemenza di Tito.
| 18:45Sally Marlow reveals the creative legacy of residents at the Institute for Advanced Study.
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| 19:00 | 19:00In Tune's specially curated mix of eclectic music, inspired by Britten's War Requiem. 19:30John Wilson brings his flair to Walton's extravagant telling of the fall of Babylon.
| 19:00Celebrating the music of Notre-Dame Cathedral. 19:30Javier Perianes plays Chopin, Debussy and Falla.
| 19:00A sequence of classical, alternative and world music designed to help you concentrate. 19:30Live from the Barbican, Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC SO in Tippett's evocation of Senegal.
| 19:00An unpresented sequence of music on the theme of happiness. 19:30Sir James MacMillan conducts the BBC Singers in a programme of music for Maundy Thursday.
| 19:00In Tune's specially curated mix of eclectic music, featuring Poulenc's Penitential Motets. 19:30Stephen Cleobury conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in Verdi's Requiem live from Cambridge
| | 19:30One of Shakespeare's earliest plays – about love, betrayal and disguise.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | | 21:20Mandolin player Avi Avital joins Les Violons du Roi for a concert in Montreal.
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| 22:00 | 22:00A new biography on composer Michael Tippett and the Ukrainian polyphony project. 22:45At the National Gallery, Sikh writer Sathnam Sanghera encounters the suffering Christ.
| 22:00Does emotion have any place in relationships with patients in a more open age? 22:45At the National Gallery, writer Kit de Waal reflects on Pilate’s dilemma.
| 22:00From Bambi and Titanic to EastEnders - Matthew Sweet asks what makes us cry and why? 22:45At the National Gallery, Muslim journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik discovers a brown Christ.
| 22:00Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Hewitt and Irenosen Okojie at the Free Thinking Festival. 22:45At the National Gallery, writer Sheila Hayman views a life-affirming Crucifixion scene.
| 22:00With Kate Fox, Jenny Colgan, Matthew Ingram, Jarlath Killeen and Kiru Taye. 22:45Nigerian novelist Chibundu Onuzo contemplates doubting Thomas at the National Gallery.
| 22:00Radio 3's weekly exploration of the world of contemporary classical music
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch presents NYJO in concert in Leicester.
| 23:00Songs and pieces that resonate with, or respond and relate to, the human body.
| 23:00Max presents Elliot Galvin, Caoimhin O Raghallaigh, Sam Underwood and Cheng Yu in session.
| 23:00From the sublime to the ridiculous, music to move through you and lift your spirits.
| 23:00The best roots-based music from across the world.
| | 23:00Elizabeth Alker with music that defies classification.
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