| 00:00 | | | | | | | 00:00Catherine Bott explores some of Thomas Gainsborough's portraits of musicians.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Schumann, Carter, Bartok, Lopes-Graca, Bruckner and Ravel
| 01:00Jonathan Swain with music by Tchaikovsky, Schreker, Kuula, Geijer, Abel, Bach and Dvorak.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Bruckner, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Britten, Crusell and Glinka
| 01:00Jonathan Swain with music by Beethoven, Touchemoulin, Paderewski, Saint-Saens and Wagner.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain with music including Bach, Sibelius, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain with music by Victoria, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Wagner and Schubert
| 01:00Susan Sharpe with music by Chausson, Ysaye, Chiang, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi and Wolf.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Bach, Schubert, Brahms, Chausson, Mozart and Nielsen.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Schubert, Holst, Poulenc, Widor, Mendelssohn and Mozart.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Vivaldi, Bizet, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Puccini and Hindemith.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Korngold, Vivaldi, Debussy, Mozart, Schubert and Tosti.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Delius, Mozart, Borodin, Faure, Berlioz and Bartok.
| 07:00Martin Handley invites listeners to choose favourite moments from Handel's output.
| 07:00Martin Handley invites listeners to choose favourite moments from Handel's output.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Handel's Messiah.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker with music by Pachelbel, Bach, Diletsky, Klami, Tallis, Turina and Sibelius.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Turina, Liszt, Tomasi, Palestrina, Mozart and Reich.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Bruckner, Haydn, Charpentier and Messiaen.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Willan, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Rossi, Foerster and Lassus.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Haydn, Victoria, Wagner, Biber, Vanhal, Gesualdo and Walton
| | 10:00Iain presents with a Handel tribute. Includes music by Handel and others influenced by him
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores Piazzolla's early life, focusing on his discovery of the bandoneon
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod evaluates the impact on his career of Piazzolla's studies in Paris.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod surveys Piazzolla's intensely creative period during the 1960s.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod follows Astor Piazzolla's musical interests in the 1970s.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod gets to grips with the complex character of Astor Piazzolla.
| 12:15Tom Service talks to pianist Imogen Cooper and explores Cambridge's choral traditions.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley recalls previous guests who are passionate about Handel's music.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Matthew Barley combines the Preludes from Bach's solo Suites with his own improvisations.
| 13:001/4The Britten Sinfonia perform works by Mozart, Colin Matthews, Charlotte Bray and Chopin.
| 13:002/4The Britten Sinfonia perform works by Knussen, Britten, Ryan Wigglesworth and J Strauss II
| 13:003/4The Britten Sinfonia perform works by Debussy, Richard Harrold, Thomas Ades and Faure.
| 13:004/4Members of the Britten Sinfonia in music by Purcell, Walacinski, Woolrich and Schoenberg.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping presents music from both the courts of Philip II of Spain and Mary Tudor.
| 13:00Catherine Bott and Laurence Cummings explore Handel's Eight Great Keyboard Suites.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4The BBC Philharmonic in Haydn, Berlioz, Liszt, Mozart, Borodin, Smetana, Berg and Bingham.
| 14:002/4The BBC Philharmonic in music by Haydn, Liszt, Wolf-Ferrari, Schubert, Ravel and Mozart.
| 14:003/4The BBC Philharmonic perform music by Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz and Liszt.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents Handel's tragi-comic opera Flavio. 14:02Louise Fryer presents Handel's tragi-comic opera Flavio.
| 14:004/4The Monteverdi Choir in Bach's St John Passion at the 2008 Proms. Plus a Liszt tone poem.
| 14:00Matthew Barley combines the Preludes from Bach's solo Suites with his own improvisations.
| 14:00Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners requests, including an infamous Handel Lenten oratorio.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Specially recorded sessions by musicians visiting the UK from Colombia and Senegal.
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| 16:00 | | | 16:00From Westminster Cathedral.
| | | 16:00Alyn Shipton talks to the Heath brothers about their collective and individual careers.
| 16:00From St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, for Easter Day.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With pianist Wu Qian and organist Simon Preston.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With Roberto Alagna and the 2009 BBC Music Magazine awards.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With Stephen Layton and James O' Donnell, plus the 2009 Proms.
| 17:00With Sean Rafferty. With Pianist Phillip Dyson and Birmingham Royal Ballet's David Bintley
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With the Chiaroscuro Quartet and the Vienna Piano Trio.
| 17:00James Levine conducts the second part of Wagner's epic saga The Ring of the Nibelung.
| 17:00Charles Hazlewood explores Handel's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | | 18:30Aled Jones investigates Handel's 11 Chandos Anthems.
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| 19:00 | 19:00The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic perform music by Elgar, Rachmaninov and Stravinsky.
| 19:00The final of the Eleventh International String Quartet Competition, from the Wigmore Hall.
| 19:00The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform a programme of Finnish and English music.
| 19:00Petroc Trelawny presents the OAE in Part 1 of Bach's St Matthew Passion.
| 19:00From King's Cambridge, choral and organ music for Good Friday from the BBC Singers. 19:50Poet Alison Brackenbury responds to John de Critz's portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham.
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| 20:00 | | | | 20:10The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams discusses Dosotoevsky, his literary hero.(R) 20:30Petroc Trelawny presents Part 2 of Bach's St Matthew Passion, featuring the OAE.
| 20:10The BBC Singers's Good Friday concert concludes with Marcel Landowski: Lecons des tenebres
| | 20:00Alan Ayckbourn's award-winning 1987 play about a family's descent into corruption.
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| 21:00 | 21:15Philip Dodd on one of the most influential design movements of the modern age - Bauhaus.
| 21:15Isabel Hilton re-assesses the reputation of economics in the wake of the credit crunch.
| 21:15At the end of Holy Week, Rana Mitter and guests examine Christianity in the Arab world.
| | 21:15Ian McMillan talks to Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga about his forthcoming novel.
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| 22:00 | 22:001/5Donald Macleod explores Piazzolla's early life, focusing on his discovery of the bandoneon
| 22:002/5Donald Macleod evaluates the impact on his career of Piazzolla's studies in Paris.
| 22:003/5Donald Macleod surveys Piazzolla's intensely creative period during the 1960s.
| 22:004/5Donald Macleod follows Astor Piazzolla's musical interests in the 1970s.
| 22:005/5Donald Macleod gets to grips with the complex character of Astor Piazzolla.
| 22:30Robert Worby explores the spoken word in new music and sound art.
| 22:00BBC business correspondent Peter Day explores Handel's financial dealings. 22:45Music and poems with extracts from journals and newspapers about Handel's opera singers.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/5Joan Bakewell explores belief with Catholic screenwriter and author Frank Cottrell-Boyce. 23:30Jez Nelson presents maverick saxophonist John Zorn in concert at the Willisau Festival 08.
| 23:002/5Joan Bakewell discusses belief with Britain's first female Muslim peer Baroness Uddin. 23:30Fiona Talkington with music by Mary Lou Williams, John Tavener and Thomas Tallis.
| 23:003/5Joan Bakewell talks to co-founder and director of the Holocaust Centre Stephen Smith. 23:30Fiona Talkington presents music by Rachmaninov, and Ali Farke Toure and Toumani Diabate.
| 23:004/5Joan Bakewell discusses areas of belief with author Mark Haddon. 23:30Presented by Fiona Talkington. Featuring Sweet Billy Pilgrim and Adem in session.
| 23:005/5Joan Bakewell explores belief with former Prime Minister Tony Blair. 23:30Presented by Charlie Gillett. Featuring a session with the band Radio Kijada.
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