| 00:00 | 00:00Music associated with Ascension Day, including works by Dufay, Biber and Rosenmuller.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces works by Haydn, Handel, Poulenc, Hindemith, Mozart and Glick.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces works by Mozart, Elgar, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Haydn and Bach.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces works by Muffat, Hadyn, Mozart, Holst, Bartok and Telemann.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Janacek, Kuljeric, Haydn, Mozart, Ravel and Shotakovich.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music, including Vivaldi, Bach, Economopoulou, Korngold, Copland
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music, including Svendsen, Grieg, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bach.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces works by Fitelbert, CPE Bach, Telemann, Grieg and Debussy.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Including music by WS Bennett, Locatelli, Bach, Telemann, Glinka and Dvorak.
| 07:00Including music by Mozart, Monteverdi, Dvorak, Liszt, Handel and Schubert.
| 07:00Including music by Buxtehude, Schubert, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Satie.
| 07:00Including music by Ravel, Vivaldi, Saint-Saens, Korngold, Bach and Mozart.
| 07:00Including works by Haydn, Schubert, Telemann, Prokofiev, Grieg and Mozart.
| 07:00Including Chopin: Berceuse; Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante.
| 07:00Includes Chopin's Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante and Variations Brillantes
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00Including Chopin's Piano Sonata No 2 and Essential Chopin on disc.
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| 10:00 | 10:00James Jolly introduces works by Glinka, Prokofiev, Cage, Brahms, Berwald and Beethoven.
| 10:00James Jolly introduces works by Wagner, Purcell, Handel, Mingus, Debussy and Schoenberg.
| 10:00James Jolly introduces works by Ravel, Elgar, Reubke, Berg and Debussy.
| 10:00James Jolly introduces works by Schumann, Busoni, Schreker, Strauss, Borodin and Bruckner.
| 10:00James Jolly introduces works by Gillis, Montsalvatge, Stravinsky, Messiaen and Francaix.
| | 10:00Iain talks to pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet about Chopin's pianistic influence on Paris.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Concentrating on Chopin's student years in Warsaw and an encounter with Paganini.
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| 12:003/5Chopin famously took the writer George Sand as his lover, who was one of many.
| 12:004/5The story of the relationship between Chopin and the writer George Sand.
| 12:005/5Including the story of Chopin's battle with tuberculosis and its effect on his music.
| 12:15Investigating the complex relationship between Chopin and his homeland.
| 12:00A Chopin archive selection, with jazz bassist Charlie Haden on the Etudes.
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| 13:00 | 13:00The Lunchtime Concert features the Belcea Quartet performing Webern's 5 Movements, Op 5.
| 13:00The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of Beethoven's Violin Sonata in A, Op 30 No 1
| 13:00The Lunchtime Concert features songs by Hahn and Beethoven's Septet in E flat.
| 13:00The Lunchtime Concert includes Debussy's Premiere rapsodie and Beethoven's Archduke Trio.
| 13:00The Lunchtime Concert features a performance of Mozart's Serenade in C minor, K388.
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| 13:00An all-Chopin recital given by Russian-born pianist Nikolai Demidenko.
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| 14:00 | | | | | | 14:00Ian Skelly explores Chopin's love for dance music and folk rhythms of his era.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Lucy Duran travels to Poland to explore the folk music of Chopin's homeland.
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| 16:00 | | | | | | 16:00A special edition dedicated to the jazz interpretation of Fryderyk Chopin's music.
| 16:00Live from the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music at St Pancras Church, London.
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| 17:00 | 17:00With the new BBC Young Musician of the Year and Ferrier award winner Ben Johnson.
| 17:00With medieval group Gothic Voices, plus violinist Jennifer Pike and pianist Daniel Tong.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty speaks to Emmanuelle Haim and Robert Carsen directly from Glyndebourne.
| 17:00With a tour of the newly-restored St Martin-in-the Fields, plus Neville Marriner.
| 17:00With pianist Ingrid Fliter, plus the Royal Ballet's staging of Dances at a Gathering.
| 17:00A sequence of both the Op 10 and Op 24 sets of Etudes, performed by 25 different pianists.
| 17:00With Stephen Johnson and Cedric Tiberghien on Chopin's Four Ballades and literature.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:00A special programme celebrating the life and work of Fryderyk Chopin.
| 18:30Looking at Chopin's tour of Britain, taken in the wake of his break-up with George Sand.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Full concerto performances from each of the finalists in 2008's Young Musician of the Year
| 19:00The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform the world premiere of Tsunami, by Dominic Muldowney.
| 19:00A concert given to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
| 19:00The Ulster Orchestra perform works by Haydn, Prokofiev, Borodin and Shostakovich.
| 19:00Coverage of the 2008 RPS Awards, the principal awards in British classical music.
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| 20:453/5Chopin famously took the writer George Sand as his lover, who was one of many.
| 20:454/5The story of the relationship between Chopin and the writer George Sand.
| 20:455/5Including the story of Chopin's battle with tuberculosis and its effect on his music.
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| 21:00 | 21:15Susan Greenfield discusses her new book and her role as director of the Royal Institution.
| 21:45Playwright Shelagh Stephenson discusses her latest work, The Long Road.
| 21:45Author Doris Lessing discusses her new book Alfred and Emily, about her parents' lives.
| 21:45With international lawyer Philippe Sands on his new book Torture Team.
| 21:45With Peter Blegvad's 'eartoons', Joan As Police Woman and poetry from Will Eaves.
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| 22:00 | 22:001/5Concentrating on Chopin's student years in Warsaw and an encounter with Paganini.
| 22:30Featuring celebrated organist Gillian Weir, who is heard performing a work by Messiaen.
| 22:30Featuring organist Gillian Weir, who performs Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544
| 22:30Featuring Organist Gillian Weir, who performs Liszt's St Francis of Paola.
| 22:30Trumpeter Clark Terry discusses his collaborations with musicians such as Oscar Peterson.
| 22:00All Chopin's Nocturnes in the order of composition, performed by famous Chopin pianists.
| 22:00Exploring the works of Japanese artist Toru Takemitsu.(R) 22:45Antony Sher reads from Baudelaire's poem Les fleurs du mal.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/4Sputnik 1 launched and modernity was born in the mind of Barnsley schoolboy Ian McMillan.(R) 23:15Mary Ann Kennedy presents her own mix of sounds from around the globe.
| 23:002/4Zinovy Zinik tried to escape his playground by leaping up to hitch a lift on Sputnik.(R) 23:15With Turkish sounds from Kardes Turkuler and the Taksim Trio and East African ritual music
| 23:003/4News of Sputnik and rock and roll arrived together in South Africa for Christopher Hope.(R) 23:15With tracks from the upcoming album by Taraf de Haidouks plus offerings from Radio Kabul.
| 23:004/4Monica Grady, space scientist at the Open University, discusses how Sputnik gave her a job(R) 23:15With a Bob Brozman and Woody Mann guitar duel and Jordi Savall playing the medieval fiddle
| 23:30A gig from the Cheltenham Jazz Festival by trumpeter Ralph Alessi's band This Against That
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