| 00:00 | 00:00Linton Stephens hosts a special live edition with comedians Tiff Stevenson and Larry Dean. 00:30Jordi Savall conducts La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations.
| 00:30Concerto Copenhagen and Lars Ulrik Mortensen perform Haydn Symphonies Nos 47, 43 and 44.
| 00:30Xu Zhong conducts the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in an all-Debussy concert.
| 00:30Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Harding with clarinettist Jérôme Voisin.
| 00:30Leonard Slatkin conducts the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Seong-Jin Cho.
| | 00:00Corey Mwamba presents new improvised music with haunting crows and reverberating silence.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Devonté Hynes explores the music that’s helped shape him as an artist and composer.
| 01:00The Oslo Philharmonic and conductor Klaus Mäkelä perform Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor.
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| 02:00 | | | | | | 02:00Tokio celebrates World Piano Day with his favourite piano pieces from global cinema.(R)
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| 03:00 | | | | | | 03:00Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in a programme of Kodaly, Shostakovich and Nielsen
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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, including the Friday poem.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Elizabeth Alker sets up your Saturday morning.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
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| 09:00 | 09:00The ideal mix of classical music for your morning.
| 09:00The perfect selection of classical music for your morning.
| 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
| 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
| 09:00The perfect selection of classical music for your morning.
| 09:00Kenneth Hamilton chooses his favourite recording of Chopin's Second Piano Concerto.
| 09:00Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to complement your morning.
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| 11:00 | | | | | | 11:45Tom Service speaks to conductor Marin Alsop.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores Purcell’s turbulent early years.(R)
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores Purcell’s sacred writing.(R)
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores the music Purcell wrote to mark specific occasions.(R)
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod takes us backstage in London’s new Restoration-era theatres.(R)
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod explores what we know of Purcell’s private life.(R)
| 12:30Jess Gillam and cellist Laura van der Heijden sit down to listen to the music they love.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley’s guest is lawyer and campaigner Helena Kennedy.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, the thrilling Baroque ensemble perform Scarlatti and Handel.
| 13:00In the first of four concerts, chamber music from the French Baroque.(R)
| 13:00Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton perform French Romantic song.(R)
| 13:00Flautist Adam Walker plays Widor, Milhaud, Messiaen and Boulez.(R)
| 13:00In this week's final concert, Quatuor Van Kuijk play Debussy and Poulenc.(R)
| 13:00Hear baritone Peter Brathwaite open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.(R)
| 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, the thrilling Baroque ensemble perform Scarlatti and Handel.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00The Ulster Orchestra plays Nielsen's First Symphony.
| 14:00Alpesh Chauhan conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Dvorak's Seventh Symphony.
| 14:00The Ulster Orchestra play Hindemith's symphonic prequel to the opera Mathis der Maler.
| 14:00The Ulster Orchestra perform Beethoven's Symphony No 7, plus music by Bax and Stravinsky.
| 14:00The Ulster Orchestra play Louise Farrenc.
| | 14:00Cantoria perform music associated with Catherine of Aragon and Mary I.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Music for characters who find escape through the screen.
| 15:00From St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico, London, with the Rodolfus Choir.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Helen Charlston sings Elgar's Sea Pictures with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
| | 16:00From St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico, London, with the Rodolfus Choir.
| | 16:30Tom Service intrepidly explores Bluebeard's Castle, Bartok's one-act symbolist opera.(R)
| 16:00Kathryn Tickell interviews French DJ and producer Guts.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Sean Rafferty is joined by Il Pomo d'Oro.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty with Francisco Correa, Broken Chord and Beowulf composer Iain Bell.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty with the Bloomsbury Quartet, and Claire Martin and Scott Dunn.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty is joined by artists from Streetwise Opera and dances with Gethin Jones.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty with the cast of upcoming The Chevalier, and composer Elena Langer.
| 17:00Live music from drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and her New Standards project.
| 17:00Tom Service with a guide to music written for and performed at weddings. 17:30From the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Gatsby to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.(R)
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:00From the Met, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Wagner's Lohengrin.
| 18:45Lindsay Johns makes the case for writer Rudolph Fisher's portraits of Black American life.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites. 19:30Vasily Petrenko conducts the SWR Symphony Orchestra in 20th-century masterpieces.
| 19:00Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites. 19:30Krista Audere makes her debut with the BBC Singers conducting A German Requiem by Brahms.
| 19:00Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites. 19:30Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the CBSO in a Schumann concerto and a Prokofiev ballet.
| 19:00A 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, from Tallis to Gershwin. 19:30Anna-Maria Helsing conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in Glass, Part and Rautavaara.
| 19:00Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites. 19:30The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs 20th-century French masterworks.
| | 19:30Conor McPherson’s darkly comic version of Strindberg’s classic about a toxic marriage.
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| 21:00 | 21:30From the Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell, London, with The Gesualdo Six.
| | | | | | 21:10Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Tom Service explores the soundscape of the marshes in North Kent.(R) 22:45Jon Gower explores the relationship between Wales and the Irish Sea.
| 22:00As Budget day approaches, Anne McElvoy looks at debt from the South Sea Bubble to Sunak. 22:45How the water west of Wales is a bringer of bounteous gifts but a wrecker of ships too.
| 22:00New research into ideas about decadence and connections with France, England and Iran. 22:45Jon Gower tells the story of the arrival of American Quaker émigrés at Milford Haven.
| 22:00Ahead of Mother's Day Matthew Sweet and guests discuss new ways of looking at stepmothers. 22:45Jon Gower gives an account of a rare species of bird found on the Welsh coastal islands.
| 22:00Ian McMillan is joined by Paul Farley, Caleb Femi and Penelope Lively to celebrate spring.(R) 22:45Jon Gower recounts how the herring trade has brought Wales great fortune over the years.
| 22:30Kate Molleson presents new music by Jennifer Walshe, Wobbly and Cassandra Miller.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. 23:30New ambient music, plus author Benjamin Myers with a track that transports him.
| 23:00Verity Sharp shares the results of our latest long-distance collaboration session.(R)
| | 23:00How do orchestras work without conductors?
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