View schedule at a glance
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01:00–07:00Music including Messiaen, Mahyler, Haas, Beethoven, Sweelinck, Verrijt, Obrecht, Purcell.
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07:00–09:00Martin Handley presents a refreshing choice of music.
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09:00–12:15With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bruckner: Symphony No 5.
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12:15–13:00Tom Service on Purcell's influence on British musical life from the 20th century to today.
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13:00–14:00Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of organ music by Purcell and his contemporaries.
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14:00–15:00With Fiona Talkington. The Emerson Quartet perform Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ.
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15:00–16:00Lucy Duran with details of a new world music initiative on BBC Radio 3.
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16:00–17:00Saxophonist John Surman joins Alyn Shipton to look back over his recording career.
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17:00–18:00Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
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18:00–20:50Richard Farnes conducts an Opera North production of Massenet's opera Werther.
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20:50–21:30Members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme perform Brahms's Piano Trio No 1.
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21:30–22:00Feature on the environmental, cultural and musical significance of several icy landscapes.
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22:00–22:30Music by John Cage, Morton Feldman and James Tenney.
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22:30–00:00Robert Worby explores the music of American mavericks James Tenney and Pauline Oliveros.
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00:00–01:00Trumpeter Terence Blanchard talks to Alyn Shipton about his work with Herbie Hancock. (R)
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01:00–07:00Music including Strauss, Mozart, Messiaen, Beethoven, Scriabin, Hummel, Ibert and Brahms.
