| 00:00 | | | | | | | 00:00Alyn Shipton and Martin Litton select the best recordings made by pianist Fats Waller.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Szymanowski, Roussel, Stenhammar, Rossini and Beethoven.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Grieg, Brahms, Mahler, Beethoven, Haydn and Prokofiev.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Bach, Scarlatti, Dvorak, Sibelius, Crusell and Telemann.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Enescu, Prokofiev, Geijer, Beethoven, Blow and Vivaldi.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music, including Haydn, Beethoven, Mielck and Hannikainen.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music, including Mussorgsky, Grieg, Brahms, Ravel, Tchaikovsky.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Medtner, Mussorsgsky, Rachmaninov, Dvorak and Mozart.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Rob Cowan with music by J Strauss II, Warlock, Handel, Vierne and Mozart. Plus Bach Dances
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, including Beethoven, Martin, Philidor, Mozart and Bax.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, including Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Rossini, Satie and Gluck.
| 07:00Rob Cowan with music, including Telemann, Howells, Berlioz, Handel, Beethoven and Haydn.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, including Mendelssohn, Tartini, Weber, Saint-Saens and Sibelius.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music, including Telemann, Debussy, Britten and Mozart.
| 07:00Martin Handley with music by Nicolai, Finzi, Shostakovich, Bach, Nielsen and Lanquetuit.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Including music by Chopin, Bartok, Debussy, Brahms, Bach, Kodaly and Beethoven.
| 10:00Including music by Rozsa, Bach, Holst, Poulenc, Kodaly, Mozart, Dove and Ligeti.
| 10:00Including music by Dinicu, Weiner, Seiber, Beethoven, Bach, Walton and Eotvos.
| 10:00Including music by Dohnanyi, Faure, Bartok, Strauss, Rameau and Joachim.
| 10:00Including music by Serly, Liszt, Bartok, Handel, Strauss, Wagner, Debussy and Tchaikovsky.
| | 10:00Iain explores love and loss, with musical examples from Brahms, Britten and Alma Mahler.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod traces the start of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck's relationship.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores Schumann's tortuous battle for Clara's hand in marriage.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod and pianist Lucy Parham open Robert and Clara Schumann's marriage diaries.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores the Schumanns' move to Dresden in 1845 to start a new life.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod explores how Clara Schumann coped with her husband's decline.
| 12:15Tom Service and guests look at some of the key cultural events of 2008.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is Polish-born children's book illustrator Jan Pienkowski.
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| 13:00 | 13:00From London's Wigmore Hall, Sarah Walker introduces Trio Jean Paul in Haydn and Schumann.
| 13:001/4Louise Fryer introduces organist Wayne Marshall performing Messiaen's Les corps glorieux.
| 13:002/4Louise Fryer introduces soprano Gweneth-Ann Jeffers in works by Messiaen and Debussy.
| 13:003/4Louise Fryer presents the Fibonacci Sequence in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.
| 13:004/4With Louise Fryer. Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe (pianos). Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen.
| 13:00Catherine Bott explores John Milton's masque Comus.
| 13:00Robert Hollingworth looks back at 40 years of the King's Singers' early music repertoire.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Louise Fryer with music by composers Messiaen admired. Includes Grieg, Poulenc and Mozart.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents music by Chausson, Chopin, Dutilleux, Faure, Massenet and Jolivet.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents music by Prokofiev, Albeniz, Mozart and Honegger.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents music by Gounod, plus Lutoslawski's Piano Concerto.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents music by Francaix, Barber, Debussy, William Schuman, Lalo and Ravel.
| 14:00From London's Wigmore Hall, Sarah Walker introduces Trio Jean Paul in Haydn and Schumann.
| 14:00This week's selection of listeners' requests with Chi-chi Nwanoku.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Lucy Duran presents a tribute to the late, celebrated South African singer Miriam Makeba.
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| 16:00 | | | 16:00From St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
| | | 16:00Alyn Shipton and Brian Priestley select the best Duke Ellington small group discs.
| 16:00From St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
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| 17:00 | 17:00With Sean Rafferty. Including the Milton Sonnet XV - On the Late Massacre in Piedmont.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With Anja Kampe, Robert Dean Smith and Emma Kirkby.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With member of the Razumovsky Ensemble and Peter Phillips.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With cellist Yo Yo Ma playing in the studio.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. After 6.00pm, The Genius of the Woods, from Milton's Arcades.
| 17:30Seiji Ozawa conducts Tchaikovsky's opera based on Pushkin's story about gambling.
| 17:00Stephen Johnson talks to the composer Elliott Carter in his 100th birthday year.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Petroc Trelawny introduces the four category finalists in the Choir of the Year 2008 final
| 19:00BBC Philharmonic/Reinbert de Leeuw in Messiaen: Le tombeau resplendant and Poemes pour Mi.
| 19:00The BBC NOW under Thierry Fischer. Debussy: La demoiselle elue. Messiaen: L'Ascension. 19:50From St David's Hall, Cardiff, Petroc Trelawny chairs a discussion on Messiaen.
| 19:00BBC SSO conducted by Ilan Volkov. Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto 4 19:55Iain Glen reads Bruce Chatwin's story of his trip to see the architect Konstantin Melnikov
| 19:00BBC SSO/George Benjamin in Messiaen. Yvonne Loriod (piano) in Albeniz: Almeria (Iberia 2).
| | 19:00Aled Jones explores the subject of writing Christmas music for choirs.
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| 20:00 | | | 20:10From St David's Hall, Cardiff, the BBC NOW in works by Debussy and Messiaen.
| 20:15BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov perform Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
| | | 20:15A production of Milton's dramatic poem, for Radio 3's Milton 400th anniversary celebration
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| 21:00 | 21:15Rana Mitter talks to India's greatest living artist MF Husain, known as India's Picasso.
| 21:15Philip Dodd asks what Milton's classic text Samson Agonistes tells us about terrorism.
| 21:15Anne McElvoy talks to Gilles Kepel about his vision for the future of Islam and the West.
| 21:15Tony Benn gives a talk on the value of experience at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival 2008
| 21:15With Ian McMillan. Featuring author Anthony Horowitz with a new commission.
| 21:30A radio poem by Katrina Porteous about the Refuge Box, off the coast of Northumbria.
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| 22:00 | 22:001/5Donald Macleod traces the start of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck's relationship.
| 22:002/5Donald Macleod explores Schumann's tortuous battle for Clara's hand in marriage.
| 22:003/5Donald Macleod and pianist Lucy Parham open Robert and Clara Schumann's marriage diaries.
| 22:004/5Donald Macleod explores the Schumanns' move to Dresden in 1845 to start a new life.
| 22:005/5Donald Macleod explores how Clara Schumann coped with her husband's decline.
| 22:00BBC Singers under David Hill in Thomas Tallis's mass Puer natus est nobis for seven voices 22:30Presented by Ivan Hewett. The London Sinfonietta celebrate their 40th anniversary.
| 22:051/2Judith Mackrell asks how British and Irish choreographers make innovative dance theatre. 22:50Music and poems on the theme of monsters read by Don Warrington and Carolyn Pickles.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/5Poet and teacher Martin Crucefix responds to Milton's treatise Of Education. 23:15Jez Nelson presents a 2008 London Jazz Festival concert by pianist Herbie Hancock.
| 23:002/5Sharon Achinstein responds to Milton's controversial tracts on divorce. 23:15Fiona Talkington presents music from Susanna and Philip Glass.
| 23:003/5Andreas Whittam Smith responds to Milton's Areopagitica, a defence of a free press. 23:15Fiona Talkington presents a music from Savina Yannatou, Farmers Market and Pedro de Cristo
| 23:004/5Tom Paulin responds to Milton's Second Defence of the English People. 23:15Fiona Talkington music by Jacques Brel, Peteris Vasks and Pierre Villette.
| 23:005/5Annabel Patterson considers the influence of Milton's writings on America. 23:15Mary Ann Kennedy presents highlights from the 2008 Kaustinen Festival in Finland.
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