| 00:00 | 00:30Catriona Young's selection includes three Czech cello concertos from the classical era.
| 00:30With Catriona Young. Includes BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena in Strauss and Sibelius.
| 00:30Catriona Young's selection includes Le Concert Spirituel and Herve Niquet in Handel.
| 00:30With Catriona Young. Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin plays Franck, Haydn and Prokofiev.
| 00:30The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Beethoven's Fourth Symphony and Elsner's Symphony in C.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith recalls the epic saxophone duels between Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:001/2Including Violeta Urmana and the Radio France Philharmonic performing Wagner in Paris.
| 01:002/2Including Violeta Urmana singing music by Wagner with the Radio France Philharmonic.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring music by Ravel and Haydn
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with Janacek and Handel.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring Henry VIII and Gounod.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring the Advent Calendar.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with music by Brahms and Vivaldi.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Victoria Meakin presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Advent Calendar
| 07:00Victoria Meakin presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Advent Calendar
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Bach: Cantata No 21.
| 09:00Rob Cowan with music on the theme of motion and movement, plus a cantata by Scarlatti.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod examines Mascagni's early years.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on Mascagni's overnight rise to fame with Cavalleria Rusticana.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod consider the importance of Rome to Mascagni.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod examines Mascagni's political stance during the 1920s.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on Mascagni's last years in Rome.
| 12:15Tom Service with a portrait of pianist Rosalyn Tureck. Plus the Hilliard Ensemble at 40.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is film director Tom Hooper.
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| 13:00 | 13:00From 2013, violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Michael Brown at London's Wigmore Hall.
| 13:001/4The Hebrides Ensemble performs music by Britten, Schubert, Maxwell Davies and Mozart.
| 13:002/4Christine Brewer (soprano) and Roger Vignoles (piano) in Wagner, Strauss, Quilter, Britten
| 13:003/4The Notos Quartet performs music by Edward Tubin and Brahms at the Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen.
| 13:004/4Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) and Jose Gallardo (piano) perform Schumann and Rachmaninov.
| 13:00From 2013, violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Michael Brown at London's Wigmore Hall.(R)
| 13:004/12The Pavel Haas Quartet performs Prokofiev and Haydn at the 2009 City of London Festival.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/5With the BBC NOW playing live: music by Copland, Thompson, Hanson, Bernstein and Piston.
| 14:002/5The BBC Philharmonic performs Bernstein and Mendelssohn in Salford. Plus Weber and Strauss
| 14:003/5BBC CO in music by Antheil, Copland, Bennett, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Porter and Kern.
| 14:004/5The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Wagner, Strauss and Franck live in Glasgow.
| 14:005/5The BBC SO performs music by Barber, Gershwin and Bernstein live in Maida Vale.
| 14:00Chef, restaurateur and television presenter Michel Roux Jr presents his favourite music.
| 14:00Lucie Skeaping celebrates the 40th birthday of the Academy of Ancient Music.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Lichfield Cathedral.
| | | | 15:00From Lichfield Cathedral.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Toby Spence, Gabriel Prokofiev and Robert Chevara.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty talks to jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. With live music from La Serenissima.
| 16:30With live music from the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and pianist Roman Rabinovich.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Daniel Barenboim. Plus live music from the Steinberg Duo.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with live music from the cast of the Menier's Candide.
| 16:00Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film scores inspired by fantasy. myth and adventure.
| 16:00Mary King explores the critical relationship between choral composer and wordsmith.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes music by Django Reinhardt.
| 17:30Texts and music evoking the spirit of Wagner, with Juliet Stevenson and Michael Pennington(R)
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod examines Mascagni's early years.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on Mascagni's overnight rise to fame with Cavalleria Rusticana.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod consider the importance of Rome to Mascagni.
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod examines Mascagni's political stance during the 1920s.
| 18:005/5Donald Macleod focuses on Mascagni's last years in Rome.
| 18:00Julian Joseph presents jazz quartet Empirical performing at the 2013 London Jazz Festival.
| 18:45Tom Service and others explore the ideas behind Wagner's own opera house in Bayreuth.
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| 19:00 | 19:30A performance of Berg's opera Wozzeck, given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
| 19:30Tenor Mark Padmore, pianist James Baillieu and the Heath Quartet perform music by Tippett.
| 19:30Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Schreker, Busoni and Ravel.
| 19:30Andrew Gourlay conducts the Halle Orchestra in music by Elgar, Ravel and Dvorak.
| 19:00Live from Oslo, Bach's Christmas Oratorio in a new version arranged for wind orchestra.
| 19:00The Nash Ensemble performs music from the 1920s, by Gershwin, Ravel and Copland.
| 19:30Angela Hewitt plays Bach English Suites and Beethoven piano sonatas at the Wigmore Hall.
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| 20:00 | | | 20:15Stephen Johnson explores Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony. 20:35The BBC SO in Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte. Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No 1.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:45A mother fights for her son to be sentenced as a child when he commits a terrible crime.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Including the 2013 Turner Prize winner, Bernstein's Candide and a discussion about letters 22:456/20Narguess Farzad of SOAS discusses Persian poetesses Rabia Balkhi and Mahsati Ganjavi.
| 22:00Matthew Sweet presents a review of Henry V in the West End, plus the film Black Nativity. 22:457/20Jim Al-Khalili explores the legacy of mathematician and astronomer al-Khwarizmi.
| 22:00Samira Ahmed discusses big business. Plus art and the Middle East and the film Nebraska. 22:458/20Professor James Montgomery discusses the life and work of Arab philosopher Al-Kindi.
| 22:00Athol Fugard and Dame Janet Suzman talk to Philip Dodd about Nelson Mandela and his legacy
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word, focusing on the surreal. 22:4510/20Professor Peter Adamson discusses the great Muslim philosopher Al-Farabi.
| 22:45Andrew McGregor and Sara Mohr-Pietsch report from the 2013 British Composer Awards.
| 22:00Guy Meredith's drama about the great operatic rivalry between Verdi and Wagner.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana's duo Mehliana perform at the 2013 London Jazz Festival.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe's selection includes Adriana Calcanhotto, Deep Purple and Bill Taylor.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with music from early 70s Angola, plus Japanese electronica by Coppe.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe features Irish composer Roger Doyle and new music from Kronos Quartet.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari with a tribute to Nelson Mandela and tunes from around the African continent.
| | 23:20BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Piers Hellawell, Rolf Hind and Magnus Lindberg.
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