| 00:00 | 00:30With John Shea. Pianist Denis Kozhukhin in a programme of Haydn, Brahms and Liszt.
| 00:30Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sergiu Celibidache in Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe.
| 00:30Sergiu Celibidache conducts a performance of Brahms's First Symphony with the Swedish RSO.
| 00:30Sergiu Celibidache conducts a performance of Berwald's Sinfonie singulière.
| 00:30John Shea presents another archive recording from conductor Sergiu Celibidache.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith presents a Christmas miscellany.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Sergiu Celibidache conducts Frumerie's Pastoral Suite and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony.
| 01:00A performance of Berlioz's version of Christ's early life, L'enfance du Christ.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with festive music and surprises.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with festive music and surprises.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with festive music and surprises.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with festive music and surprises.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with festive music and surprises.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with festive music and surprises.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with festive music and surprises.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 8.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 1.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Bernstein: Symphony No 2 (Age of Anxiety).
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Ravel: Piano Concerto in G.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Rossini's La Cenerentola.
| 09:00Rob Cowan with instrumental music inspired by or drawn from opera.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Brahms's vocal music written when he was a young man.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod introduces works from the years following the death of Brahms's mother.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod introduces music from Brahms's first decade in Vienna.
| 12:004/5Works associated with some of the most important people in Brahms's life.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod introduces works from Brahms's final burst of creativity.
| 12:15Percussionist Evelyn Glennie celebrates the 250th birthday of the glass armonica.(R)
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Dame Diana Rigg.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) performs music by Mozart at the Wigmore Hall in London.
| 13:001/9From 2012's Schwetzingen Festival: Brahms and Marc-Andre Hamelin's Variations on Paganini.
| 13:002/9Including Truls Mork (cello) in Prokofiev and Rachmaninov. Stile Antico in Tallis and Byrd
| 13:003/9From the 2012 Schwetzingen Festival, music by Beethoven, Messiaen and Martinu.
| 13:004/9Music from the 2012 Schwetzingen Festival, by Gesualdo and Schubert.
| 13:00A look at one of the earliest sources of English medieval music the Trinity Carol Roll.
| 13:00Highlights from a concert given by the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Music played by BBC orchestras, by Schubert, Turina, Grieg, Weber, Elgar and Mathias.
| 14:002/4BBC orchestras in Lindberg, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Gabriel Jackson.
| 14:003/4Music performed by BBC orchestras in 2012, by Humperdinck, Part and Vaughan Williams.
| 14:00Delius's opera A Village Romeo and Juliet from the 2012 Wexford Festival.
| 14:004/4Music played by BBC Orchestras, by Coates, Copland, Rachmaninov, Brett Dean and Sibelius.
| 14:00Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) performs music by Mozart at the Wigmore Hall in London.(R)
| 14:00Grieg's Peer Gynt performed by actors and singers with the BBC SO under Marc Minkowski.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Lichfield Cathedral.
| | | 15:00Pianist/composer Richard Sisson presents an alternative take on the 12 Days of Christmas.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty presents live music and guests and a feature on Handel's Messiah.
| 16:30With guests including Neville Marriner, pianist Denis Matsuev and Phoenix Piano Trio.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with live music from soprano Katherine Broderick and London Handel Players.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents a festive selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein with a special edition from the BBC Radio Theatre.
| | 16:00From Lichfield Cathedral.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' requests in all styles of jazz.
| 17:00Aled Jones introduces seasonal choral music plus contemporary sounds from Arctic Light.
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| 18:00 | 18:001/5Donald Macleod focuses on Brahms's vocal music written when he was a young man.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod introduces works from the years following the death of Brahms's mother.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod introduces music from Brahms's first decade in Vienna.
| 18:304/5Works associated with some of the most important people in Brahms's life.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod introduces works from Brahms's final burst of creativity.
| 18:00Rossini's great comic opera The Barber of Seville, in an English version.
| 18:30Music and poetry on the theme of abundance read by Nicholas Farrell and Hayley Carmichael.(R)
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| 19:00 | 19:00The English Concert plays music by Corelli and Bach at Christ Church Spitalfields.
| 19:30Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in music by Brahms and Szymanowski.
| 19:301/2BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra in Christmas music: Tavener, Bax, Ireland and Finzi.
| 19:301/2Stile Antico in music for Advent and Christmas: Tallis: Puer natus est nobis (excerpts).
| 19:30A seasonal performance of music by Bach from the BBC Singers and St James's Baroque.
| | 19:45Exploring unexpected literary influences on Byron, Tennessee Williams and Virginia Woolf.
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| 20:00 | | | 20:20Stephen Johnson explores in detail Gerald Finzi's In Terra Pax. 20:402/2Music from the BBC Singers and BBC CO: Finzi, Howells, Bridge, Warlock, Vaughan Williams.
| 20:20A new seasonal short story by Alison MacLeod about the precious things in daily life. 20:402/2Stile Antico in music for Advent and Christmas. Including Byrd: Laetentur coeli.
| | 20:30The story of two Polish composers, Andrzej Panufnik and Witold Lutoslawski.(R)
| 20:30Five New Testament stories set in present-day pre-Christmas London.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:00Gavin Bryars and Blake Morrison give a modern twist to a Jules Verne tale about music.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Anne McElvoy talks to Ang Lee and discusses the cultural history of angels. 22:451/5Dawn King's setting of the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders in a building firm.
| 22:00Matthew discusses Hitchcock, Tarzan and Alasdair Gray. 22:452/5Katie Hims's setting of the story of the Good Samaritan on the London Underground.
| 22:00Philip Dodd meets Bernard Rose whose new film Boxing Day is inspired by a Tolstoy story. 22:453/5Frazer Flintham's version of the parable of the Good Servant, set in a beauty store.
| 22:00Novelist Philippa Gregory talks to Rana Mitter at the 2012 Free Thinking festival. 22:454/5Winsome Pinnock's setting of the story of Lazarus in a holistic healing centre.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word from Gorilla in Manchester. 22:455/5Tom Wells's setting of the Parable of the Sower in a school science club.
| 22:004/5Music from 2012's Huddersfield Music Festival, by Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje.
| 22:00Moshe Morad presents music from Lazarus Koulaxizis and Rembetiko star Mario.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/2Jez Nelson reviews the best live performances from Jazz on 3 over the past year.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt's selection includes music from Fritz Storfinger and Wolfgang Schwering.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt's selection includes tracks such as Advent Prose, In Deng and Frolic Sam.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt introduces Nils Frahm, Ghostpoet and Hyelim Kim in session.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy presents world music recordings and recordings from WOMAD 2012.
| | 23:00Claire Martin presents the annual Christmas round table programme.
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