| 00:00 | 00:00Violinist Chiara Banchini and Ensemble 415 in a programme of Italian chamber sonatas.(R)
| | | | | | 00:00The music of the Jews of 16th century Italy, a colourful mixture of dances and stories.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00With music by Ades, Bruckner, Mozart, Rossini, Svendsen, Schumann, JM Bach and Sibelius.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain spins Debussy, Boulanger, Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Abel and Sweelinck.
| 01:00Music by Byrd, Couperin, Rameau, Mahler, Weber, Prokofiev, Haydn, Strauss and Sibelius.
| 01:00Including music by JS Bach, Handel, Mahler, Schubert, CPE Bach, Debussy, Bizet and Poulenc
| 01:00With pieces by Mendelssohn, Haydn, Mozart, Liehmann, Smetana, Liszt, Dohnanyi and Andricu.
| 01:00Including music by Salieri, Mozart, Locatelli, Reicha, Chopin, Sibelius and Debussy.
| 01:00Composers include Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, Berwald, Tchaikovsky, Weber and Auletta.
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| 05:00Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by Gratton, Brahms, and Bach.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Including Byrd, Elgar's Froissart Concert Overture, Pergolesi, Mozart, Stravinsky and Bach
| 07:00Including pieces by Granados, Bach, Rees-Williams, Villa-Lobos, Boccherini and Holst.
| 07:00Including Wolf, Arvo Part, Prokofiev, Haydn and Hasse, plus Dvorak's American Suite.
| 07:00Dowland's Lachrimae Pavane, plus pieces by Britten, Telemann, Schumann, Handel and Rossini
| 07:00Including pieces by Bach, Weber, Tallis, Haydn and Verdi, plus Beethoven's Choral Fantasia
| 07:00Including music by Bach, Bernstein and Smetana, and Berwald's Estrella de Soria Overture.
| 07:00Including music by Beethoven, Holborne, Mozart, Gabrieli, Tchaikovsky and Franck.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00Andrew McGregor with new releases, including Bach's Der Zufriedengestellte Aeolus.
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| 10:00 | 10:00With Sarah Walker. Works by M Haydn, Bartok, Francaix, CPE Bach, Brahms and Mozart.
| 10:00Sarah Walker with music by Chabrier, Rodrigo and Schubert, plus Mahler's Symphony No 7.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music by John White, Elgar, Allegri, Vaughan Williams and Britten.
| 10:00Sarah Walker with music by Haydn, Beethoven, Schmidt and Elgar, plus Arnold's 3 Shanties.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Handel, Mozart and Chabrier.
| | 10:00Iain ponders philosophy, with Steve Reich's Proverb and works by Mahler and Nietzsche.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Gluck stood aloof from any tradition, declaring he wrote 'music belonging to all nations'.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod traces the young Gluck's journeys across Europe before he settled in Vienna
| 12:003/5Gluck's manifesto for opera was to 'restrict music to its true function of serving poetry'
| 12:004/5Gluck's decided in 1774 to apply his radical aesthetics to the traditions of French opera.
| 12:005/5Gluck's operatic career included his sequel to Iphigenie en Aulide and a French farce.
| 12:15Lewis Foreman talks to Richard Itter, the pioneer behind British record label Lyrita.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley talks to publisher Tim Hely Hutchinson, who chooses Bellini and Donizetti
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| 13:00 | 13:00The Lunchtime Concert features violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cedric Tiberghien.
| 13:00Mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn and pianist Joseph Breinl perform Kodaly and Schumann.
| 13:00Pianist Cedric Tiberghien plays Philippe Hersant and the Aronowitz Ensemble play Faure.
| 13:00Pianist Martin Helmchen plays Messiaen and the Ebene String Quartet play Beethoven.
| 13:00Eduard Kunz plays Bach, and Cedric Tiberghien, Royal String Quartet play Shostakovich.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping with highlights of a concert of Vatican music, recorded at York Minster.
| 13:00Performer portrait of one of this country's most influential early music pioneers.(R)
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| 14:00 | | | | | | 14:00Verty Sharp presents a recital by violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cedric Tiberghien(R)
| 14:00Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a selection of listeners' requests.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Highlights from the station's landmark 1987 concert series, Music of the Royal Courts.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series.
| 16:00Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series.
| 16:00Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series.
| 16:00Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series.
| 16:00Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series.
| 16:00Julian Joseph meets pianist Herbie Hancock, whose latest album is of Joni Mitchell songs.
| 16:00From Westminster Abbey, with Tippet's Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense canticles.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty's guests Patricia Rozario, Julius Drake, Colin Lee and Carlo Rizzi.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty welcomes director Sally Potter and singer Julian Gavin to the studio.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty's guests are Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Imogen Cooper and the Formosa Quartet.
| 17:30Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:00Robert Hollingworth and period performers explore musical ideas of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:30Edward Gardner conducts the London Phil and an international cast in Britten's opera.
| 18:30Aled Jones takes a choral perspective on Italian composers Rossini, Verdi and Puccini.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Berlioz performed in 1965 by the New Philharmonia Orchestra, plus Stravinsky and Gerhard.
| 19:00Act 2 from a 1971 performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, plus Tippet from 1980.
| 19:00A concert from the Dresden Staatskapelle, including an orchestral work by Berlioz.
| 19:00Including the Ritual Dances from Tippet's The Midsummer Marriage, and The Rose Lake.
| 19:00Prom concert recorded in 2007 with the European Union Youth Orchestra, featuring Sibelius.
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| 20:00 | 20:451/5Gluck stood aloof from any tradition, declaring he wrote 'music belonging to all nations'.
| 20:452/5Donald Macleod traces the young Gluck's journeys across Europe before he settled in Vienna
| 20:453/5Gluck's manifesto for opera was to 'restrict music to its true function of serving poetry'
| 20:454/5Gluck's decided in 1774 to apply his radical aesthetics to the traditions of French opera.
| 20:455/5Gluck's operatic career included his sequel to Iphigenie en Aulide and a French farce.
| | 20:00Imagining the interrogation of Jewish-Russian writer Isaac Babel upon his 1939 arrest.
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| 21:00 | 21:45Gabriel Gbadamosi and Richard Mabey explore our long-standing relationship with trees.
| 21:45Kenan Malik visits a new exhibition of the work of Victorian artist John Everett Millais.
| 21:45Philip Dodd is joined by historian Orlando Figes and innovative film-maker Julie Taymor.
| 21:45Matthew Sweet looks at the new version of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play Rhinoceros.
| 21:45Ian McMillan is joined by poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and language expert Robert Vanderplank
| 21:00Thriller set in a Manchester nightclub where everyone's a millionaire for the weekend. 21:45The BBC NOW and horn player David Pyatt perform works by Lindberg and Rautavaara.
| 21:30Historian Ruth Scurr visits the city to find how three great thinkers interacted with it.
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| 22:00 | 22:30Soprano Felicity Lott performs English music, with excerpts from Britten's Peter Grimes.
| 22:30Soprano Felicity Lott performs in the closing scene of Strauss's opera Capriccio.
| 22:30Soprano Felicity Lott performs French music, including songs by Poulenc and Faure.
| 22:30Soprano Felicity Lott sings arias from Mozart operas, including The Marriage of Figaro.
| 22:30Including concerts by Betty Carter, Anthony Braxton and Stan Getz, plus archive interviews
| 22:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch with highlights from Soundwaves, a contemporary music festival in Hove.
| 22:15Writings on melancholy by Robert Burton, Keats and Gray, plus music by Dowland and Purcell
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| 23:00 | 23:001/4Archaeologist Clive Gamble sees evidence of the Stone Age in a gravel pit in north France.(R) 23:15More intriguing sounds from around the world.
| 23:002/4Richard Fortey is in the 1820s with geologist Charles Lyell, finding Earth-shaping forces.(R) 23:15Highlights from 2007's Forde folk festival in Norway, including a set by Ablaye Cissoko.
| 23:003/4Two 1820s German chemists show that living matter and minerals can be chemically identical(R) 23:15Fiona Talkington presents music from Hungarian cimbalon player Kalman Balogh and more.
| 23:004/4Galileo's ideas will change old concepts of the Universe. But his attitude brings conflict(R) 23:15Fiona Talkington's choices include William Byrd and samba de roda from Dona Edith do Prato
| 23:30A gig from the East London-based band of the moment, recorded at London's Vortex jazz club
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