| 00:00 | 00:45John Shea presents the Apollon Musagete Quartet performing Szymanowski and Schubert.
| 00:30John Shea presents Bizet's Carmen in a performance given at the Royal Opera House.
| 00:30John Shea presents the Tokyo Quartet performing in Wellington, New Zealand.
| 00:30John Shea introduces a programme of Mozart performed by the Prague Chamber Orchestra.
| 00:30John Shea presents a selection from the archives, featuring Rostropovich and Richter.
| | 00:00Archive interview in which pianist and composer Michael Garrick reviews his work in jazz.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00John Shea presents tenor Christoph Pregardien performing lieder by Schumann and Mahler.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain concludes a Mahler symphony cycle with No 10, with the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Khachaturian, Sweelinck and Binge.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, and the Specialist Classical Chart.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Delibes, Bach and Debussy.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Barber, Shostakovich and Britten.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents music by Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Sibelius.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Gardner, Liszt and Rutter.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Joseph Haydn, Arnold Bax and Thomas Tallis.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Sarah Walker presents music by Rietz, Zelenka and Handel.
| 09:00Sarah Walker presents music by Benjamin, Bellini, Mozart and Saint-Saens.
| 09:00Sarah Walker presents music by Bach, Martin, Moscheles and Dukas.
| 09:00Sarah Walker presents music by CPE Bach and Mozart.
| 09:00Sarah Walker presents music by Albinoni, Telemann, Strauss and Rimsky-Korsakov.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schumann: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Bach, Beethoven, Tartini and Borodin.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores Beethoven's relationship with friends, family and women.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod introduces music for a friend and a potential love interest of Beethoven's.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod introduces music written during the aftermath of the Napoleonic invasion.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod considers two different sides of Beethoven's character.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod introduces music from 1812 - a year of family crises and emotional torment.
| 12:15Presented by Tom Service. Including an interview with harpsichordist Andreas Staier.
| 12:001/2With music performed in Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Veronique Gens (soprano) and Susan Manoff (piano) in songs by Massenet, Gounod and Hahn.
| 13:005/12Llyr Williams performs Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No 10 in G; No 22 in F; No 15 in D.
| 13:006/12Nicholas Angelich in Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No 5 in C minor; No 12 in A flat; Moonlight.
| 13:007/12Shai Wosner in Beethoven: Piano Sonatas: No 3 in C, Op 2; No 4 in E flat, Op 7.
| 13:008/12Shai Wosner in Beethoven: Piano Sonatas: No 1 in F minor; No 6 in F; No 18 in E flat.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping explores the originations of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/5With the BBC SO in Britten, Sibelius and Walton, and the BBC CO in Tchaikovsky.
| 14:002/5BBC Philharmonic in music by Rozsa, Britten and Strauss. Plus the BBC CO in Tchaikovsky.
| 14:003/5Grant Llewellyn conducts the BBC NOW in music by Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
| 14:004/5The BBC SSO performs music by Debussy, Vaughan Williams and Borodin.
| 14:005/5Choral music for Christmas and winter from the BBC Singers and Stephen Cleobury.
| 14:00Veronique Gens (soprano) and Susan Manoff (piano) in songs by Massenet, Gounod and Hahn.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30The Chapel of Worksop College with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
| | | 15:00John Wilson selects music by Waxman, Korngold, Steiner, Rozsa and Herrmann.
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| 16:00 | 16:30With performances by Onyx Brass and an interview with Dunedin Consort director John Butt.
| 16:30With music from pianist Katya Apekisheva, plus Thomas Kemp and Yuri Bashmet.
| 16:30With music from saxophonist Andy Sheppard and early music vocal group Chapelle du Roi.
| 16:30With live performances by the Abram Wilson Quartet and an interview with Antonio Pappano.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents a Christmas special edition from the BBC Radio Theatre.
| | 16:00The Chapel of Worksop College with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:002/2Louise Fryer presents concerts from Portugal and Germany.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod explores Beethoven's relationship with friends, family and women.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod introduces music for a friend and a potential love interest of Beethoven's.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod introduces music written during the aftermath of the Napoleonic invasion.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod considers two different sides of Beethoven's character.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod introduces music from 1812 - a year of family crises and emotional torment.
| 18:00Placido Domingo conducts the Metropolitan Opera orchestra in Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
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| 19:00 | 19:30The BBC Singers in Russian music for Christmas from the Tsarist era to the 20th century.
| 19:301/2Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in music by Haydn and Nielsen.
| 19:30Christoph Eschenbach conducts the London Philharmonic in Wagner, Strauss and Beethoven.
| 19:301/2Northern Sinfonia under Thierry Fischer in jazz-inspired music by Stravinsky and Ravel.
| 19:30Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts the BBC SO in music by Bartok, Kurtag and Sibelius.
| | 19:45Norman Lebrecht explores the life and work of French icon, chanteuse and composer Barbara.
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| 20:00 | | 20:35Stephen Johnson on the history and musical mechanics of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. 20:552/2Colin Davis conducts the LSO in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor).
| | 20:30Alexandra Harris discusses the history of fireworks at the 2011 Free Thinking Festival. 20:502/2Thierry Fischer conducts the Northern Sinfonia in Beethoven's Symphony No 4 in B flat.
| | | 20:30Farquhar's 1709 Restoration comedy, where wives are recruited while soldiers are wooed.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30Three dancers describe how they are taking tap-dancing into new areas.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Rana Mitter discusses Zoopolis, a new book on the relationship between animals and humans. 22:451/5Glaciologist David Drewry on his adventurous efforts to survey Antarctica's landscape.
| 22:00Matthew Sweet discusses Dreams of a Life, a new film about the forgotten in society. 22:452/5Writer Meredith Hooper witnesses the plight of penguins affected by climate change.
| 22:00Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition of the programme devoted to Charles Dickens. 22:453/5John Sweeny on his desperate efforts to find a new home for Antarctica's last huskies.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy discusses the new film The Artist, which celebrates Hollywood in the 1920s. 22:454/5Paleoclimatologist Jane Francis discusses her time in the Antarctic.
| 22:00Presented by Ian McMillan. With Dinah Roe on Christina Rossetti, and Anthony Joseph. 22:455/5David Walton on the tricky legal struggle to protect Antarctica from humans' activity.
| 22:00Music by Pierre Boulez, from the London Southbank Centre's Exquisite Labyrinth series. 22:303/4With music by Christian Marclay, James Dillon, Tim Parkinson and Morton Feldman.
| 22:20Mary Ann Kennedy visits Canada to make a musical tour of Cape Breton Island.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal at 2011's London Jazz Festival.
| 23:00Verity Sharp's selection includes flamenco and lyre music from Ethiopia.
| 23:00Verity Sharp presents French fiddle music, medieval love songs and Swiss alphorns.
| 23:00Verity Sharp presents music from Crete, Irish fiddle tunes and Chopin from Tzimon Barto.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents new world music and unheard recordings from the 2011 WOMAD Festival.
| | 23:20Julian Joseph presents an all-CD edition, with guest Tina May talking about her new disc.
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