| 00:00 | 00:00Jazz Line- Up presents Alto Saxophone legend Bobby Watson In Concert
| | | | | | 00:00Brian Morton joins Alyn Shipton to select essential work by exotic bandleader Sun Ra.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Through the Night
with John Shea
Broadcast throughout Europe by the BBC
| 01:00Through the Night
with John Shea
Broadcast throughout Europe by the BBC
| 01:00John Shea introduces music, including Bruhns, Buxtehude, Weckmann, Rosenmuller and Janacek
| 01:00John Shea introduces music, including Berlioz, Shostakovich, Grechaninov and Dohnanyi.
| 01:00John Shea introduces music, including Ruders, Brahms, Schubert, Mozart, Tormis and Hummel.
| 01:00John Shea introduces music, including Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mozart and Reicha.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces music, including Beethoven, Strauss, Schumann, Haydn and Grieg.
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| 07:00 | 07:00With Rob Cowan. Including works by Mendelssohn, Campion, CPE Bach, Tsintsadze and Mozart.
| 07:00With Rob Cowan. Including works by Vivaldi, Beethoven, Butterworth, Zarlino and Respighi.
| 07:00An uplifting start to the day: Rob Cowan shares his selection of breakfast music.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, including works by Elgar, Faure, Rossini, Vivaldi and Ponchielli
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, including Tchaikovsky, CPE Bach, Brahms JS Bach and Paganini.
| 07:00Charlotte Wilson presents music by Bach, Clara Schumann, Scarlatti and Shchedrin.
| 07:00Charlotte Wilson with music by Rossini, Gesualdo, Bach/Berio, Mozart, Villa-Lobos and Bach
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bach's partitas for solo violin.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker introduces pieces by CPE Bach, Mendelssohn, Krommer, Dvorak, Hofmann, Brahms.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces pieces by Mozart, Vivaldi, Sammartini, Schumann and Shostakovich.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music by Boyce, Stravinsky, JW Stamitz, Bruckner and Mahler.
| 10:00With Sarah Walker. Including music by Nielsen, Dittersdorf, Britten, Tchaikovsky and Haydn
| 10:00With Sarah Walker. Including music by Gossec, Bizet, Sibelius, Elgar and Beethoven.
| | 10:00Iain tries to discover why the city of Odessa has produced so many great musicians.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod meets Justine Rapaccioli, vice maestro di capella at St Mark's Basilica.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores the music Monteverdi wrote for St Mark's Basilica.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores Monteverdi's musical life beyond St Mark's Basilica.
| 12:004/5On 21 November 1631, Venice celebrated deliverance from the plague.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod visits the sites of the world's first two public opera houses.
| 12:15Petroc Trelawny talks to leading American composer John Adams.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley talks to Peter Kosminsky, who chooses music by Beethoven, Bruch and Glass
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| 13:00 | 13:00From the Wigmore Hall, London, a recital by Veronique Gens (soprano), Jeff Cohen (piano).
| 13:002/10Including music by Schubert, Sibelius, Fazil Say, Beethoven, Handel, Stravinsky and Haydn.
| 13:003/10Highlights from 2008 summer music festivals. Including Strauss, Haydn, Wagner.
| 13:004/10Highlights from summer music festivals. Including works by Schubert, Dvorak, Wagner, Bach.
| 13:005/10Highlights from music festivals, including Haydn, Wagner, Beethoven and Grieg.
| 13:00Catherine Bott presents an all Vivaldi concert by Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert from the York Early Music Festival 2008.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/10Highlights from music festivals that took place in Europe and North America in summer 2008
| | | | | 14:00From the Wigmore Hall, London, a recital by Veronique Gens (soprano), Jeff Cohen (piano).
| 14:00Chi-chi Nwanoku with music from Holst's The Planets and Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Lucy Duran presents music from the Kronos Quartet and Azerbaijani singer Alim Qasimov.
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| 16:00 | | | 16:00From Peterborough Cathedral.
| | | 16:00Composer Mike Westbrook talks to Alyn Shipton to select highlights from his long career.
| 16:00From Peterborough Cathedral.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Including baritone Mark Stone and pianist Sholto Kynoch, plus soprano Maria Poplavskaya.
| 17:00With the Doric String Quartet, plus countertenor David Daniels and conductor Harry Bicket.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With mezzo Sarah Connolly and violinist Viviane Hagner.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With composer John Rutter and conductor Jeffrey Skidmore.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. Featuring pianist Freddy Kempf and composer Michael Berkeley.
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| 17:00Charles Hazlewood considers Tchaikovsky's musical reflections on the 18th century.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:00A new production of Stravinsky's neo-classical opera, about a young man's decline.
| 18:30Aled Jones presents music from 2008's RheinVokal Festival including Gesualdo and Scarlatti
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| 19:00 | 19:00Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato opens the new season at the Wigmore Hall, London.
| 19:00Natalie Clein (cello), Ulster Orchestra under Kenneth Montgomery in Brahms, Elgar, Bliss.
| 19:00BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Jac van Steen in music by Guto Puw and Schubert. 19:35By Istvan Orkeny. A story told by a mother who must identify the body of her dead son.(R) 19:55From Swansea's Brangwyn Hall, BBC NOW under Jac van Steen in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.
| 19:00Simon Rattle conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Wagner, Brett Dean, Sibelius.
| 19:00Thomas Zehetmair directs the Northern Sinfonia in a Beethoven programme.
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| 20:00 | | | | | | | 20:00Prof Judith Herrin traces the history of the Roman city of Byzantium. 20:45By Gregory Burke. Based on interviews by Burke with former soldiers who served in Iraq.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:15Matthew Sweet introduces art historian Evelyn Welch plus a discussion on anti-semitism.
| 21:15Rana Mitter talks to Richard Evans about his distinguished career as a historian.
| 21:15Philip Dodd talks to historian David Starkey, who discusses his biography of Henry VIII.
| 21:15Bidisha gives the verdict on the Coen brothers film Burn after Reading.
| 21:15With Ian McMillan. Featuring poet Michael Symmonds Roberts and 'eartoonist' Peter Blegvad.
| 21:00Louise Wallwein's first radio play is inspired by a young woman she met in a workshop. 21:45Marianne Thorsen (violin) and Ian Brown (piano) perform Vaughan Williams's Violin Sonata.
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| 22:00 | 22:001/5Donald Macleod meets Justine Rapaccioli, vice maestro di capella at St Mark's Basilica.
| 22:002/5Donald Macleod explores the music Monteverdi wrote for St Mark's Basilica.
| 22:003/5Donald Macleod explores Monteverdi's musical life beyond St Mark's Basilica.
| 22:004/5On 21 November 1631, Venice celebrated deliverance from the plague.
| 22:005/5Donald Macleod visits the sites of the world's first two public opera houses.
| 22:15Cornelius Meister conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Srnka's Reading Lessons for orchestra. 22:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a concert celebrating the 70th birthday of composer John Harbison.
| 22:15The beguiling and bewildering forest, found in readings and music by Wagner and Schubert.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:001/5Declan Donnellan reflects on the discoveries he made while working in Russian theatre. 23:15A gig by the Sonny Simmons Quartet given at London's Vortex Jazz Club in September 2008.
| 23:002/5Prof Simon Franklin's attempt to secure a visa leads him to one of Russia's great icons.(R) 23:15Max Reinhardt's selection includes field recordings from China and the Hugh Tracey archive
| 23:003/5Journalist Vanora Bennett explores the idiosyncrasies of travelling by train in Russia.(R) 23:15With Max Reinhardt. Including Amon Tobin's Horsefish and Purcell's Fantasia upon One Note.
| 23:004/5Lesley Chamberlain reflects on the Cold War and finding solace at Moscow's Hippodrome. 23:15With Max Reinhardt. Sjaak sings a song about beer and Andrea Lucchesini plays Berio.
| 23:005/5Simon Sebag Montefiore reflects on Catherine the Great and Prince Potemkin's romance.(R) 23:15Charlie Gillett presents a mix of world music, including a session by Tuareg group Tartit.
| | 23:30Claire Martin presents Clare Teal and the BBC Big Band at the Scarborough Jazz Festival 08
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