| 00:00 | 00:00Catherine Bott presents music with links to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.(R)
| | | | | | 00:00The development of the madrigal, with examples by Verdelot, Willaert and Marenzio.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Music by Haydn, Hummel, Mozart, Lindblad, Arnic, Lithander and Diepenbrock. With John Shea
| 01:00John Shea spins Schumann, Poulenc, Kreisler, Liszt, Haydn, Tomasi, Martinu and Schubert.
| 01:00Pieces by Gizeghem, Cornago, Cornazano, Cornago/Ockeghem, Pesaro, Da Nola and Ortiz/Torre.
| 01:00With John Shea. Raychev, Hannikainen, Morley, Bruckner, Pearsall, Finzi and Mozart feature
| 01:00John Shea hosts works by Greef, Franck, Liebermann, Debussy and Gassman among others.
| 01:00With John Shea. Featured composers include Shostakovich, Rachmaninov and Strauss.
| 01:00With Susan Sharpe, featuring a tribute to the late Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Including works by Schubert, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi, plus Allegri's Miserere
| 07:00With works by Rheinberger, Mozart, Bach, Grieg and Elgar, plus Bruch's Kol Nidrei, Op 47.
| 07:00Including works by Brahms, Beethoven, Bach, Rimsky-Korsakov, Lassus and Boccherini.
| 07:00Including music from Couperin, Chopin, Handel, Offenbach, Brahms and Liszt.
| 07:00Including works by Dvorak, Vivaldi, Faure, Schubert and Haydn, plus Regnart's Inviolata.
| 07:00Including music by Purcell, Haydn, Vivaldi and Prokofiev.
| 07:00Including music from Verdi, Schubert, Monteverdi, Bach and Haydn.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00Andrew McGregor with new releases. Disc of the Week: Schreker, Chamber Symphony (1916).
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker with pieces by Dvorak, Ravel and Handel, and Schubert's String Quintet in C.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces pieces by Schubert, Brahms, Pergolesi, Martin, Maw and Mozart.
| 10:00Sarah Walker with music by Weber, Rachmaninov, Sibelius, Montague, Purcell and Bartok.
| 10:00Including works by Domenico Natale Sarri, Domenico Scarlatti, Mendelssohn and Mozart.
| 10:00Composers Wolf, Kabalevsky, Britten, Beethoven, Priuli, Grainger and Delius feature.
| | 10:00Major General Patrick Cordingly guides Iain through music by Parry, Mozart and Handel.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5The music heard at the first of two memorial concerts held in London upon Grieg's death.
| 12:002/5Investigating the Scottish ancestry to be found in the Norwegian composer's family tree.
| 12:003/5Exploring what made the Norwegian identity in Grieg's music attract audiences in Britain.
| 12:004/5The encounters with British people that shaped Grieg's life, including Frederick Delius.
| 12:005/5Grieg's debut in Britain as a concert pianist was held up by the applause that greeted him
| 12:15Petroc Trelawny explores the border territory between literature and music.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is the historian and political journalist Peter Hennessy.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, with the Aronowitz Ensemble playing Faure and Dvorak.
| 13:00Galuppi's Le nozze di Dorina, plus music from festivals in Ireland and Romania.
| 13:00Featuring highlights of summer festivals from Spain to Latvia via central Europe.
| 13:00Including Janacek's From the House of the Dead, from 2007's Aix-en-Provence Festival.
| 13:00Brahms and Sibelius from the Risor Festival, in a white wooden church on Norway's coast.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping surveys the musical legacy of the Middle East's influence on early music.
| 13:00Catherine Bott and guests discuss combining voices with viols in an ecclesiastical setting
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| 14:00 | | | | | | 14:00Verity Sharp introduces the international soloists who make up the Aronowitz Ensemble.(R)
| 14:00Chi-chi Nwanoku returns to the Requests hotseat with music by French composers.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Revealing the nominees for the 2008 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music.
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| 16:00 | | | | | | 16:00Julian Joseph presents a live studio session from Saxophonist Paul Towndrow.
| 16:00Live from St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
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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 presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty talks to Opera Rara's conductor David Parry about Bellini's La Straniera.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty talks to countertenor James Bowman, who performs Handel in the studio.
| 17:30Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:00Charles Hazlewood conducts an in-depth examination of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:30Petroc Trelawny hosts the new production of Bizet's Carmen from English National Opera.
| 18:30Aled Jones explores Edwards Elgar's choral legacy.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Celebration of John Adams's 60th birthday, with the composer conducting his own music.
| 19:005/6Recorded in December 1972, Eartha Kitt joins the Nash Ensemble for songs by Kurt Weill.
| 19:00The BBC Singers and conductor David Hill with a Halloween concert called Out Of This World
| 19:00Baritone Thomas Quasthoff and pianist Charles Spencer perform Schubert's Winterreise, D911
| 19:00The Britten Sinfonia and violinist Alina Ibragimova in concertos by Bach and Hartmann.
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| 20:00 | 20:451/5The music heard at the first of two memorial concerts held in London upon Grieg's death.
| 20:452/5Investigating the Scottish ancestry to be found in the Norwegian composer's family tree.
| 20:453/5Exploring what made the Norwegian identity in Grieg's music attract audiences in Britain.
| 20:454/5The encounters with British people that shaped Grieg's life, including Frederick Delius.
| 20:455/5Grieg's debut in Britain as a concert pianist was held up by the applause that greeted him
| | 20:00In 1914 Charles Masterman used the literary and artistic elite to unite the nation.
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| 21:00 | 21:45Matthew Sweet examines the success of Channel 4 as it celebrates its 25th birthday.
| 21:45Philip Dodd explores how recent waves of immigration are changing British culture.
| 21:45Rana Mitter explores the relationship between scientific progress and science fiction.
| 21:45Matthew Sweet assesses a new production of The Investigation performed by Rwandan actors.
| 21:45Ian McMillan with a specially commissioned poem about China's Terracotta Army.
| 21:30A savagely comic look at the pleasure and pain of being mixed race in Britain today.
| 21:30Tristram Hunt explores how Elgar's music articulated the notion of British Empire.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:30Cellist Steven Isserlis begins with a work by Strauss, his Romance for cello and orchestra
| 22:30Cellist Steven Isserlis collaborates with his friend Stephen Hough in music by Liszt.
| 22:30Cellist Steven Isserlis performs Thrinos, a solo work written for him by John Tavener.
| 22:30Cellist Steven Isserlis begins the programme with a rarity by Faure for cello and organ.
| 22:30Horace Silver selects his key recordings, including early work and classic tracks.
| 22:15Nikos Christodoulou conducts the BBC SO in Skalkottas's Thema con variazione for orchestra 22:30A concert of new music by seven composers, performed by the Uroboros Ensemble.
| 22:15Music and poetry evoking states of rapture. With poems by Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/4The rhythmic complexities in Steve Reich, Ghanaian Ewe music and a 1000-year-long piece. 23:15The pair play listeners' own additions to Joe's list of the top 40 world music releases.
| 23:002/4Pythagoras' theories about the harmonious world, and why many cultures use a 12-note scale 23:15Verity Sharp with Estonian music, alongside a song about truth and love from Abida Parveen
| 23:003/4Exposing the symmetry in Bach's Goldberg Variations and the maths behind bell-ringing. 23:15Verity Sharp presents the Betel Nuts Brothers from Taiwan and organist Zsigmond Szathmary.
| 23:004/4Schoenberg's rectangles, Xenakis' cubes, Messiaen's Mongean shuffle and the music in maths 23:15Verity Sharp with the voice of Kaushiki Chakrabarty, and Percy Grainger's theremin music.
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