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Susan Sharpe presents a concert from Korea, featuring Janacek, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
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00:30 - 06:30
With Susan Sharpe. The Orchestra della Svizzera Italia plays Prokofiev, Weill and Strauss.
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00:30 - 06:30
Susan Sharpe's presents the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Dvorak and Brahms.
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00:30 - 06:30
Susan Sharpe presents Bach's Art of Fugue played by the Berlin Academy for Ancient Music.
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00:30 - 06:30
Susan Sharpe presents the BBC Concert Orchestra in Bowen, Alwyn, Parry, Vaughan Williams.
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00:00 - 01:00
Violinist Regina Carter joins Alyn Shipton to pick her finest recordings.
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01:00 - 07:00
Susan Sharpe introduces the Cherubini Requiem Mass and a programme of Vivaldi and Handel.
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01:00 - 07:00
Jonathan Swain presents Mahler's Symphony No 7 with the Concertgebouw and Bernard Haitink.
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06:30 - 09:00
Petroc Trelawny presents music by Praetorius, Chopin and Weber.
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06:30 - 09:00
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Hildegard von Bingen, Vivaldi and Rimsky-Korsakov.
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06:30 - 09:00
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Walton, Kodaly and Suppe.
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06:30 - 09:00
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Monteverdi, Jessel and Haydn.
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06:30 - 09:00
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Beethoven, Schubert and Josef Strauss.
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07:00 - 09:00
Martin Handley presents music by Herrmann, Haydn and Purcell.
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07:00 - 09:00
Martin Handley presents music by Geminiani, Grieg and Beethoven.
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09:00 - 12:00
Rob Cowan presents music by Enescu, Prokofiev and Walton.
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09:00 - 12:00
Rob Cowan presents music by Nielsen, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.
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09:00 - 12:00
Rob Cowan presents music by Glazunov and Mozart.
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09:00 - 12:00
Rob Cowan presents music by Verdi and Shostakovich.
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09:00 - 12:00
Rob Cowan presents music by Weber, Prokofiev and Finzi.
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09:00 - 12:15
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mahler: Symphony No 8.
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09:00 - 12:00
Rob Cowan presents music by Tchaikovsky, Zelenka, Buxtehude and Berlioz.
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12:00 - 13:00
1/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's upbringing in Melbourne and study in Frankfurt.
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12:00 - 13:00
2/5 Donald Macleod focuses on how Grainger established himself as a pianist.
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12:00 - 13:00
3/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's adoption of US citizenship and his marriage.
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12:00 - 13:00
4/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's founding a museum of himself.
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12:00 - 13:00
5/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Graingers's Jungle Book Cycle and his 'greatest hits'.
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12:15 - 13:00
Tom Service presents a special edition focusing on the symphony since 1945.
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12:00 - 13:00
Michael Berkeley's guest is former BBC political editor John Sergeant. (R)
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13:00 - 14:00
The Jerusalem Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet, K421. Debussy: Quartet in G minor, Op 10.
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13:00 - 14:00
1/4 The Elias Quartet peform music by Beethoven and Smetana at St George's Hall, Liverpool.
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13:00 - 14:00
2/4 Tasmin Little (violin), John Lenehan (piano): Kreisler, Bach, Grieg, Bartok, Tchaikovsky.
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13:00 - 14:00
3/4 The Fine Arts Quartet in Glass: String Quartet No 2. Grieg: String Quartet in G minor.
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13:00 - 14:00
4/4 Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) sings Schumann's Dichterliebe and settings of the same poems.
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13:00 - 14:00
Lucie Skeaping presents music by Handel performed by the English Concert and Lucy Crowe.
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13:00 - 14:00
Lucie Skeaping explores the work of 18th century Scottish composer James Oswald.
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14:00 - 16:30
Music to accompany the BBC Four Symphony series, by Wagner, Bruckner and Sibelius.
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14:00 - 16:30
Music to accompany the BBC Symphony series, by Dvorak, Wagner, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
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14:00 - 15:30
Louise Fryer presents Mahler's Symphony No 2 performed at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival.
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14:00 - 16:30
Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC SSO in Dvorak: Symphony No 9. Mahler: Symphony No 3.
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14:00 - 16:30
Music to accompany the BBC Symphony series, by Sibelius, Britten, Elgar, Vaughan Williams.
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14:00 - 15:00
The Jerusalem Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet, K421. Debussy: Quartet in G minor, Op 10.
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14:00 - 16:00
Chief conductor Juanjo Mena leads the BBC Philharmonic in music by Bach and Bruckner.
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From St George's Chapel, Windsor.
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15:00 - 17:00
4/4 Simon Russell Beale focuses on composers who lived in and visited London.
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16:30 - 18:30
With the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments and the Wellensian Consort.
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16:30 - 18:30
With music from Emma Kirkby, Jakob Lindberg, Tim Kliphuis, Nigel Clark and Roy Percy.
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16:30 - 18:30
With music from jazz singer Ian Shaw and young Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin.
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16:30 - 18:30
With music from the Blossom Street Singers and Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.
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16:30 - 18:30
With music from the Fugata Quintet, plus an interview with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
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16:00 - 17:30
A Service for Advent with carols, from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
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17:00 - 18:00
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
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17:30 - 18:30
Aled Jones makes a selection from the diverse body of choral music by Benjamin Britten.
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18:30 - 19:30
1/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's upbringing in Melbourne and study in Frankfurt.
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18:30 - 19:30
2/5 Donald Macleod focuses on how Grainger established himself as a pianist.
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18:30 - 19:30
3/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's adoption of US citizenship and his marriage.
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18:30 - 19:30
4/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Grainger's founding a museum of himself.
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18:30 - 19:30
5/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Graingers's Jungle Book Cycle and his 'greatest hits'.
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18:00 - 21:00
Martin Handley presents an ENO performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
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18:30 - 19:45
Scott Handy and Catherine Harvey read poetry and prose inspired by the Great Exhibition.
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19:30 - 20:15
1/2 Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC CO in Vaughan Williams, Milford, Delius and Ravel.
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19:30 - 22:00
Music inspired by the beauty of the English countryside, by Gurney, Janacek and Elgar.
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19:30 - 22:00
Peter Hill (piano) performs music by Messiaen, Sculthorpe, Takemitsu and Ravel.
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19:30 - 22:00
The BBC Singers in music by Cowie, McCabe, Bingham, Stanford, Dutilleux and Messiaen.
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19:30 - 20:10
1/2 The Coull String Quartet performs music by Haydn and Cowie at Earth Music Bristol.
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19:45 - 20:30
Humayun Ansari from the University of London tells the story of mosques in Britain.
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Sue Perkins and Tom Service explore symphonic nationalism and famous symphonic beginnings. -
20:35 - 22:00
2/2 Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC CO in Honneger, Vaughan Williams and Bartok.
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20:10 - 20:30
Sue Perkins and Tom Service on the relevance of the symphony in the 21st century. -
20:30 - 22:00
2/2 Coull String Quartet in Cowie: Birdsong Bagatelles 13-24. Dvorak: String Quartet, Op 96.
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20:30 - 22:30
August Wilson's play about a brother and sister and a piano carved with African faces.
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21:00 - 21:30
A poem by Katrina Porteous and composer Peter Zinoviev inspired by the Uffington Horse. -
21:30 - 22:30
Music by British composers David Bedford, Joseph Phibbs and Morgan Hayes.
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22:00 - 22:45
Susie Orbach challenges the obsession with personal change at Free Thinking 2011. -
22:45 - 23:00
1/5 Nature writer Richard Mabey reflects on how and why we like to sing together.
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Rana Mitter chairs a debate about the Luddite movement, to mark its 200th anniversary. -
22:45 - 23:00
2/5 Behaviour expert Professor Tim Birkhead explores how birds learn to sing.
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22:00 - 22:45
Neuro-scientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore discusses dramatic changes in the teenage brain. -
22:45 - 23:00
3/5 Composer Edward Cowie shares his enthusiasm for lyre and bell birds.
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22:00 - 22:45
A talk in which landscape architect Charles Jencks calls for a new cosmic art. -
22:45 - 23:00
4/5 Bird song recordist Geoff Sample explores whether birds sings symphonically.
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22:00 - 22:45
As the nights get longer, Ian McMillan and Toby Litt investigate the word 'darkling'. -
22:45 - 23:00
5/5 Poet and writer Paul Farley explores why a bittern can sound like reggae.
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22:30 - 00:00
A preview of the 2011 British Composer Awards. Hear and Now 50: Howard Skempton's Lento.
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22:30 - 23:00
Lucy Duran explores the archive of pioneering ethnomusicologist Jean Jenkins.
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23:00 - 00:30
Jez Nelson presents Archie Shepp and Joachim Kühn at the London Jazz Festival.
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23:00 - 00:30
Fiona Talkington presents music from the Necks, and Tuule Kann and Jaak Sooaar.
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23:00 - 00:30
Fiona Talkington's varied selection includes trio Tindra and Polish band Kroke.
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23:00 - 00:30
Fiona Talkington presents music from Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile.
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23:00 - 01:00
Mary Ann Kennedy presents a concert from Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra.
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23:00 - 00:30
Claire Martin presents concert sets from pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Gilad Atzmon.
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LISTEN 
With Sarah Walker. Including Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony (excerpt). 
