| 00:00 | | | | | | | 00:15Trombonist Benny Powell joins Alyn Shipton to select his best discs.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Presented by Jonathan Swain.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents Symphonies 3 and 6 by Tchaikovsky.
| 01:00Presented by Jonathan Swain.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Philharmonic in Act 2 of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet.
| 01:00With Jonathan Swain. The London Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain's selection of performances includes Ryba's joyful Czech Christmas Mass.
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| 07:00 | 07:00With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Includes a Christmas carol from the BBC Singers.
| 07:00Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Including a Christmas carol from the BBC Singers.
| 07:00With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Including a Christmas carol from the BBC Singers.
| 07:00Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Including a Christmas carol from the BBC Singers.
| 07:00Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Including a Christmas carol from the BBC Singers.
| 07:00Presented by Rob Cowan. With a specially-recorded Christmas carol from the BBC Singers.
| 07:00Presented by Rob Cowan. With a specially-recorded Christmas Carol from the BBC Singers.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00Andrew McGregor rounds up new releases from composers celebrating anniversaries in 2010.
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| 10:00 | 10:00James Jolly presents music by Mozart, Sullivan, Haydn, Tallis, Shostakovich and Respighi.
| 10:00James Jolly presents music by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Donizetti, Handel and Chopin.
| 10:00James Jolly with music by Dvorak, Zelenka, Brahms, Purcell, Kodaly, Haydn and Beethoven.
| 10:00James Jolly with music by Faure, Gershwin, Mahler, Coates, Haydn, Scarlatti and Handel.
| 10:00James Jolly presents music by Dove, Vivaldi, Webern, Janacek, Haydn, Bach and Tchaikovsky.
| | 10:00Join Suzy Klein and guests for the perfect soundtrack to Boxing Day.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bach's arrival in the tranquil environment of Cothen.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod on how Bach made the most of the instrumentalists around him in Cothen.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod reveals how Bach was hit by the devastating news of the death of his wife.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod on how Bach's family life reached a new peak with his second marriage.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod charts Bach's first Christmas in a new professional home.
| 12:15Sarah Walker retraces French composer Erik Satie's daily walk across Paris.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is clinical psychologist and writer Pamela Stephenson Connolly.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Francesco Piemontesi performs piano music by Janacek, Beethoven and Stravinsky.
| 13:001/4Distinguished pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja recreates Chopin's final concert in Scotland.
| 13:002/4Piano recital by Boris Giltburg. Chopin: Polonaises Nos 1, 2; Ballades Nos 1, 2, 3 and 4.
| 13:003/4Piano recital by Alexander Madzar. Chopin Impromptus, Op 29, 36, 51; 24 Preludes, Op 28.
| 13:004/4Piano recital by Louis Lortie. Chopin: Etudes, Op 10; 3 Nouvelles Etudes; Etudes, Op 25.
| 13:001/2Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping review 2010's Early Music Shows.
| 13:002/2Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping review 2010's Early Music Shows.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Katie Derham presents music including Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.
| 14:202/4Katie Derham presents music including Mahler's Symphonic Prelude.
| 14:003/4Katie Derham presents the Berlin Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No 9.
| 14:00Katie Derham presents a performance of Bizet's tragic opera Carmen.
| 14:004/4Katie Derham presents music including Mahler, compl Deryck Cooke: Symphony No 10.
| 14:00Stephen Cleobury directs the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.
| 14:00Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners' requests, including Schumann, Beethoven and Gershwin.
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| | | 16:00Alyn Shipton invites leading jazz critics to review the best albums of 2010.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Ruth Padel and Henry Goodman read prose and verse exploring the idea of the Ascent of Man.(R)
| 17:00Jenny Agutter and Anton Lesser read works about wilderness from all corners of the globe.(R)
| 17:00A sequence of poetry, prose and music centring on altered states and visions.(R)
| 17:00A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of hearing and listening.(R)
| 17:00Texts and music on the subject of healing, with readings by Celia Imrie and Bill Paterson.(R)
| 17:00Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:00Stephen Johnson unpicks the ideas behind Corelli's famous set of Opus 6 Concertos.
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| 18:00 | 18:15Features Veronika Eberle (violin), Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Henk Neven (baritone).
| 18:15Performances by Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg, Ben Johnson and Mahan Esfahani.
| 18:15Performances from Alexandra Soumm (violin) and Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet).
| 18:15Daniela Lehner (mezzo) in songs by Kienzl. Escher Quartet in Haydn: String Quartet (Joke).(R)
| 18:15Performances from the ATOS Trio, Khatia Buniatishvili and Daniela Lehner. 18:45The OAE and Polyphony under Stephen Layton in Handel's Messiah at St John's, Smith Square.
| 18:00Wagner's opera about a medieval troubadour's tussle between the sensual and the spiritual.
| 18:30Aled Jones reports on a choral and vocal showcase held in the Normandy town of Saint-Lo.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Stephane Deneve conducts the RSNO in Berlioz, Beethoven, MacMillan and Respighi.
| 19:15Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra in a programme of Bach cantatas for Advent and Christmas.
| 19:30John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir in Monteverdi's Vespers at Proms 2010.
| 19:30Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge and OAE in Christmas music by Bach and Corelli.
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| 20:00 | | | | | | | 20:00A rare chance to hear Beaumarchais's original play, on which Mozart's opera was based.
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| 21:00 | 21:15Matthew Sweet talks to film-maker Danny Boyle and philanthropist Stephanie Shirley.
| 21:15Presented by Anne McElvoy. With religious writer Karen Armstrong discussing compassion.
| 21:15Philip Dodd discusses Alan Lomax, pioneering oral historian, and Will Self's Idea of 2010.
| 21:15Jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch gives a lecture entitled Emancipation: A Listener's Guide.
| 21:15Ian McMillan presents. With Lawrence Sail, Sunjeev Sahota, Ginger and Black, Ammon Shea.
| 21:55Radio 3 lets its hair down with a festive comedy panel show hosted by Frank Skinner.
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| 22:00 | 22:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Bach's arrival in the tranquil environment of Cothen.
| 22:002/5Donald Macleod on how Bach made the most of the instrumentalists around him in Cothen.
| 22:003/5Donald Macleod reveals how Bach was hit by the devastating news of the death of his wife.
| 22:004/5Donald Macleod on how Bach's family life reached a new peak with his second marriage.
| 22:005/5Donald Macleod charts Bach's first Christmas in a new professional home.
| 22:25A radio composition by Jonny Trunk created from BBC Sound Effects recorded in the 1970s. 22:45Matthew Herbert's new work One Day, recorded at the 2010 London Jazz Festival.
| 22:00Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce explores the life and work of Antoine de Saint-Exupery. 22:45Sheila Hancock and Scott Handy read poems and prose about giving and receiving gifts.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/5John Haldane on the origins and meaning of the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 23:151/2Jez Nelson reviews 2010's UK jazz. Concerts by Django Bates, Norma Winstone, Finn Peters.
| 23:002/5Dr Helen Bond explores the life and times of Nazareth's most famous peasant girl, Mary. 23:15Max Reinhardt with music from Djessou Mory Kante's Djandjon and Yanov-Yanovsky.
| 23:003/5Dr Mona Siddiqui of Glasgow University explains the important role of Mary in Islam. 23:15Max Reinhardt with music from Arvo Part, Lata Mangeshkar and Mahalia Jackson.
| 23:004/5Professor Miri Rubin explores how the Virgin Mary was used against medieval Jews. 23:15Max Reinhardt presents music including Ty, Hannah Peel and Jason Yarde.
| 23:005/5Diarmaid MacCulloch on how 16th-century Protestants dealt with the Virgin Mary's role. 23:15Mary Ann Kennedy presents a Christmas Eve edition, with Kate Rusby in concert.
| | 23:45Kevin LeGendre with Tommy Smith and Guy Barker discuss arranging for large ensemble.
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