Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—24/12/2012
A chance to hear Tchaikovsky's rarely performed comic opera The Tsarina's Slippers.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Monday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with festive music and surprises.
09:00
Essential Classics—Monday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Building a Library from CD Review: Rossini: La Cenerentola.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), Episode 1
1/5Donald Macleod traces Offenbach's early years, from Cologne to Paris where.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Schwetzingen Festival 2012, Episode 5
5/9From Schwetzingen 2012, music by Debussy, Granados, de Nebra, Chopin and Stravinsky.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—European Music Festivals, Episode 1
1/5Highlights from European music festivals: Bach, Stravinsky, Lessel, Mozart and Dvorak.
16:30
Opera on 3—Wagner's Ring, Das Rheingold
Donald Macleod presents Wagner's Das Rheingold, performed at the Royal Opera House.(R)
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Evening
19:30
Radio 3 Live in Concert—BBC Proms 2012, Prom 52: Prokofiev's Cinderella
Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev's Cinderella, Op 87.(R)
21:25
Belief—Richard Dannatt
Richard Dannatt talks to Joan Bakewell about how his beliefs shaped his work as Army chief
21:55
BBC Proms—2012, Cameron Carpenter Organ Recital 1/2
American virtuoso Cameron Carpenter plays JS Bach on the organ of the Royal Albert Hall.(R)
23:00
Jazz on 3—Review of 2012, New Releases in 2012
2/2Jez Nelson reviews the best jazz albums of 2012.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—25/12/2012
A sequence of 20th century choral and baroque instrumental Christmas works.
