| 00:00 | 00:30A rare complete performance of Debussy's Le martyre de Saint Sébastien.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Hooray for Hollywood - one of the highlights of the 2011 Proms.
| 00:30Wayne Marshall conducts the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra in Bernstein and Gershwin.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain explores the work of influential American composer Steve Reich.
| 00:30The KBS Symphony Orchestra under JoAnn Falletta plays Corigliano, Barber and Copland.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, a personal journey taking in great musicians and great music.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Presented by Jonathan Swain. Pianist Daniil Trifonov plays music by Liszt and Chopin.
| 01:00John Shea explores the music of American composer Frederick Converse.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates the festive season with Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates the festive season with Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates the festive season with Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates the festive season with Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates the festive season with Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including R Strauss: A survey of Lieder.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Charpentier: Te Deum in D.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Ravel: String Quartet, performed by the LaSalle Quartet.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No 3.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Durufle: Requiem.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra.
| 09:00Rob Cowan explores the repertoire of composers known mainly for a single piece.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod uncovers the early impulses for Napoleon's unlikely love of music and art.
| 12:002/5With his own musical taste in question, what rightful place for Napoleon the impresario?
| 12:003/5The mystery of Beethoven's 'heroic' symphony and its dedication to Napoleon.
| 12:004/5Gifts of cash and jewels abound as Napoleon lures the very best musicians to his court.
| 12:005/5As Napoleon's ashes are returned from Corsica, artistic rivalries are exposed.
| 12:15Tom Service pays tribute to composer Jonathan Harvey.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is fashion designer Caroline Charles.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Christine Rice and Mark Padmore sing Britten.
| 13:001/4Imogen Cooper, Henning Kraggerud and Adrian Brendel perform two Schubert pieces.
| 13:002/4Imogen Cooper plays piano music by Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven at LSO St Luke's, London.
| 13:003/4Imogen Cooper (piano) and Adrian Brendel (cello) perform Bach, Beethoven and Schubert.
| 13:004/4Imogen Cooper plays piano music by Brahms, Schumann and Chopin at LSO St Luke's in London.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping presents early music from Austria and South Germany performed by NeoBarock.
| 13:00Catherine Bott on the life and musical settings of the work of Italian poet Torquato Tasso
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| 14:00 | 14:001/5The BBC Philharmonic in Salford perform music by Walton, Britten and Tchaikovsky.
| 14:002/5The BBC Singers perform advent music by Palestrina, Bach, Bax and others.
| 14:003/5The BBC Concert Orchestra perform pieces by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Jonathan Dove.
| 14:004/5The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Bartok and Hindemith.
| 14:005/5Music by Barber, Pierne, Jones, Finzi and Anderson from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff.
| 14:00Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Christine Rice and Mark Padmore sing Britten.(R)
| 14:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Andrew McGregor present the tenth British Composer Awards.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Presented by Suzy Klein. With live music from the Brodsky Quartet.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents, with live music from pianist Piers Lane and soprano Kate Royal.
| 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include Dame Felicity Lott and the Elias Quartet.
| 16:30With live music from the Brook Street Band plus author Louis de Bernieres.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents live music from the Szymanowski Quartet.
| | 16:00From Westminster Abbey.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' requests, with a focus on the blues.
| 17:002/2Presented by Aled Jones. Including a visit to the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod uncovers the early impulses for Napoleon's unlikely love of music and art.
| 18:302/5With his own musical taste in question, what rightful place for Napoleon the impresario?
| 18:303/5The mystery of Beethoven's 'heroic' symphony and its dedication to Napoleon.
| 18:304/5Gifts of cash and jewels abound as Napoleon lures the very best musicians to his court.
| 18:305/5As Napoleon's ashes are returned from Corsica, artistic rivalries are exposed.
| 18:00Live from the Metropolitan Opera House, Fabio Luisi conducts Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera.
| 18:30Words and music on the theme of Entente Cordiale with Rachel Atkins and Jamie Parker.
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| 19:00 | 19:30The BBC Concert Orchestra in music by Schoenberg, Maxwell Davies, Jocelyn Pook and Muse.
| 19:301/2The Nash Ensemble in music by Britten: Les illuminations; Lachrymae for viola and strings.
| 19:301/2Gala concert to award the Queen's Medal for Music. Music by Maxwell Davies and Tchakovsky.
| 19:30Stefan Asbury conducts the Halle orchestra in music by Prokofiev and Rachmaninov.
| 19:30BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Synergy Vocals/Josep Pons in music by Berio and Verdi.
| | 19:452/3Andy Martin on how Stendahl followed Napoleon across Europe in 1812 and changed fiction.
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| 20:00 | | 20:10Writer Ronald Blythe talks to Mark Cocker about his career and times. 20:302/2The Nash Ensemble and soloists in Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Op 31.
| 20:15Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's celebrated Enigma Variations. 20:352/2The award of the Queen's Medal for Music and a performance of Elgar's Enigma Variations.
| | | | 20:30Georg Buchner's radical retelling of the fall-out from the French Revolution.(R)
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30A radio version of Georges Perec's avant-garde book about asking for a salary raise.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Anne McElvoy examines how Napoleon is viewed in his homeland today. 22:451/5Julia Blackburn looks for the ghost of Napoleon on St Helena, where he died in exile.
| 22:00With A first-night review of Julius Caesar and Fiona Shaw on cross-casting in Shakespeare. 22:452/5Writer Andrea Stuart celebrates Napoleon's first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais.
| 22:00Presented by Matthew Sweet. With Michael Grandage and Jonas Mekas. 22:453/5Writer Adam Nicolson recalls being a teenager as father wrote about Napoleon and 1812.
| 22:00Irish writer Colm Toibin talks to Philip Dodd at the 2012 Free Thinking festival. 22:454/5Kirsteen McCue discusses singing and interpreting James Hogg's Scottish Napoleonic songs.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word. 22:455/5Mark Adkin discusses being a military historian in the footsteps of Napoleon.
| 22:002/5Highlights of the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival including Dennehy and Cage
| 22:00Music from around the world performed at the 2012 Songlines Music Awards concert.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents highlights from the free improvisation event Adventures in Sound.
| 23:00Verity Sharp with gypsy soul from Ljiljana Buttler, Korean zither and James McMillan.
| 23:00With Verity Sharp. Includes Scotland's Cults Percussion Ensemble, Nino Josele and Atom Eye
| 23:00Verity Sharp with music from Thailand, some smoky blues and a duo from Iran.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari with details of this year's fRoots Critics' Poll for albums.
| | 23:00Saxophonist Colin Mills talks to Julian Joseph about being in the European Jazz Orchestra.
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