| 00:00 | | | | | | | 00:00Catherine Bott with highlights of a concert of Gregorian chant performed at Edinburgh 2008(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Bliss, Telemann and Debussy.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Chopin, Brahms, Berlioz, Beethoven, Mozart and Grieg.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssoh, Sullivan and Rachmaninov.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Bach, Mozart, Grieg, Chopin, Dvorak, Grainger and Hummel.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Mozart, Stravinsky, Schumann, Benoit, Haydn and Brahms.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Elgard, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Goldmark and Schubert.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Beethoven, Dvorak, Paganini, Mozart, Weber and Debussy.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Vivaldi, Kodaly, Mozart, Schumann, Faure and Ravel.
| 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Brahms, Linley, Monteverdi, Ravel and Schumann.
| 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Granados, Machaut, Strauss/Godowsky and Telemann.
| 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Byrd, Schubert, Mussorgsky, Copland, Purcell and Part.
| 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with music by Biber, CPE Bach, Haydn, Janacek, Prokofiev, Villa-Lobos.
| 07:00Martin Handley introduces music by Mozart, Brahms, Howells and Fasch.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Vivaldi, Chopin, Korngold, Scarlatti, Mozart and Sibelius
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00Andrew McGregor introduces new recordings, including Debussy, Foerster and Nigel Hess.
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| 10:00 | 10:00James Jolly introduces music by Mozart, Heinichen, Handel, Walton, SL Weiss and Brahms.
| 10:00James Jolly presents music by Schuammn, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Strauss and Bruckner.
| 10:00James Jolly presents music by Ippolitov-Ivanov, Balakirev, Tchaikovsky, Elgar and Walther.
| 10:00James Jolly introduces music by Liszt, Britten, Strauss, Vivaldi, Schumann and Ravel.
| 10:00James Jolly presents music by Weber, Wagner, Schutz, Hess, Fasch, Schutz and Mendelssohn.
| | 10:00Iain considers ideas of light and dark, and how composers have responded to these.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores Vaughan Williams's first opera Hugh the Drover.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores the appeal to Vaughan Williams of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores Vaughan Williams's works on Elizabethan and Tudor themes.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod focuses on two completely contrasting Vaughan Williams operas.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod on Vaughan Williams during World War II, including Pilgrim's Progress.
| 12:15Pianist David Owen Norris follows Liszt on his concert tours as a virtuoso pianist.(R)
| 12:00With satirist, cartoonist and jazz musician Barry Fantoni, who chooses music by Scarlatti.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Les Talens Lyriques perform music including solo cantatas by Monteclair and Rameau.
| 13:001/12The Ysaye Quartet plays music including Szymanowksi's second string quartet.
| 13:002/12Penny Gore introduces Paul Meyer (clarinet) and Eric Le Sage (piano) in Brahms and Berg.
| 13:003/12Pianist Gabriela Montero in her Queen's Hall debut, in music by Bach, Chopin and Debussy.
| 13:004/12A concert with songs by Liszt, plus Beethoven's only song cycle and settings by Janacek.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping explores how the bassoon developed from early curtals, dulcians and bajons.
| 13:00Catherine Bott explores Rameau's opera Hippolyte et Aricie.
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| 14:00 | 14:00A Prom featuring music by Vaughan Williams, Nigel Osborne and Beethoven.
| 14:15Prom with the BBC SSO in a premiere by Elliott Carter, plus Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto.
| 14:15An electro-acoustic Prom, featuring Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos plango, vivos voco.
| 14:20The BBC SO under Jiri Belohlavek in Dvorak's 16 Slavonic Dances and Janacek's Osud.
| 14:30The Gurzenich Orchestra in their Proms debut perform Mahler's 5th Symphony.
| 14:00Les Talens Lyriques perform music including solo cantatas by Monteclair and Rameau.
| 14:00With listeners' requests, including Haydn's Symphony No 39 and Ireland's Decorations.
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| 15:00From St Gertrude's Church, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands.
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| 16:00 | | | | | | 16:00Claire Martin presents a tribute to the jazz drummer Allan Ganley, who died in March 2008.
| 16:00Chinese pianist Lang Lang in music by Mozart, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Schubert and Debussy.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Sean Rafferty talks to Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble, and Andrew Davis.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty talks to Fabio Luisi about his work with the Dresden Staatskapelle.
| 17:00With Lorin Maazel, a performance by British Youth Opera and Tarleton's Jig on their new CD
| 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the music world
| 17:30Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:30Alwynne Pritchard and conductor Kent Nagano explore Messiaen's opera St Francis of Assisi.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:30Focusing on pianist Ingrid Fliter as well as singers Elizabeth Watts and Allan Clayton.
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| 19:00 | 19:00The RPO under Daniele Gatti perform excerpts from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. 19:50Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson read from their work and discuss storytelling.
| 19:30A concert marking 50 years since the death of Vaughan Williams, with Job.
| 19:00Featuring Debussy's Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune and Eotvos' violin concerto Seven. 19:35An exploration of the ancient heart of the Parisian Latin Quarter. With Gillian Tindall. 19:55With Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending and Ravel's Scheherazade, with Sarah Connolly.
| 19:30The NYPO in music by Steven Stucky and Gershwin's Piano Concerto, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet
| 19:30The New York Philharmonic in Ravel's Mother Goose and Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin.
| 19:30Fiona Talkington presents the Oslo Philharmonic in Magnus Lindberg's Seht die Sonne.
| 19:00The Ebene Quartet in Mozart's String Quartet in C (Dissonance).
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| 20:00 | 20:10The Royal Philharmonic's all-Russian programme concludes Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.
| 20:40Steven Johnson visits the Royal College of Music to look at Vaughan Williams's time there.
| | 20:25Ian MacMillan and guests discuss literature inspired by birds. 20:45The Prom concludes with Lorin Maazel conducting Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring.
| 20:15A profile of the New York Philharmonic, one of the world's oldest orchestras. 20:35Rob Cowan presents the New York Philharmonic performing Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4.
| 20:50A story set on a ferry, where a traveller encounters the intriguing teenager Sophie.
| 20:00The BBC SO/Chorus, the Crouch End Festival Chorus and other soloists in Verdi's Requiem.
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| 21:00 | 21:15Philharmonia Orchestra principal conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi talks to Norman Lebrecht
| 21:00The Prom concludes with Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music and Symphony No 9.
| 21:15Chris Bowlby discovers how the city's buildings evoke a confident period of liberalism.
| 21:45Steven Stucky talks to Andrew McGregor about his life and music.(R)
| 21:45An examination of the ferment of ideas generated at the University of Chicago in the 1950s(R)
| 21:10Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts the Oslo Philharmonic in Sibelius's Symphony No 1.
| 21:45A play imagining what might have happened if the author Brian O'Nolan's two alter egos met
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| 22:00 | 22:00Verity Sharp presents baritone Ronan Collett in a selection of Mahler's Ruckert-Lieder. 22:301/2Featuring Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who plays music including Scriabin's Etudes, Op 8.
| 22:15Historian Ruth Scurr visits the city to find how three great thinkers interacted with it.(R)
| 22:00With Rautavaara's Cantus arcticus and the premiere of Tavener's Cantus mysticus.
| 22:302/2Featuring pianist Lang Lang, who is heard in music including Erik Satie's Gnossienne No 1.
| 22:30Alyn Shipton and singer Monica Vasconcelos select recordings by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
| 22:05Featuring music by Chinese emigre composers Chen Yi and Raymond Liu. 22:30The BBC Philharmonic in music by Unsuk Chin. Plus Philip Mead in a work by Chris Dench.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/3A talk Vaughan Williams gave in 1950, discussing Bach and his own reputation at the time. 23:15Lopa Kothari's world music mix includes recordings from WOMAD 2008. With singer Wasis Diop
| 23:002/3A tribute to Vaughan Williams's friend and fellow composer Gustav Holst. 23:15With folk music from Madeira, piano music by John Tavener and songs by Ane Brun.
| 23:30Songs by Rokia Traore, jazz from the Frode Gjerstad trio and circus sounds by Troy Banarzi
| 23:003/3Vaughan Williams giving his thoughts in 1955 on his teachers, including Hubert Parry. 23:15Including music for accordion and percussion by Magnus Lindberg and 1980s American folk.
| 23:30Jez Nelson presents sets from jazz-metal trio Tyft and Rudresh Mahanthappa's quartet.
| | 23:15Readings of works by Milton and Auden interspersed with music by Delius and Messiaen.
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