| 00:00 | 00:30The Liege Royal Philharmonic in Henk de Vlieger's condensed version of Wagner's Ring cycle
| 00:30Orchestra of the 18th Century under Frans Bruggen in piano concertos by Mozart and Chopin.
| 00:30Catriona Young's selection includes Catalan composer Juli Garreta's Piano Quartet.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents Catalan baroque music from the 2012 Torroella de Montgri Festival.
| 00:30Les Ambassadeurs play all four concerti Vivaldi wrote for the Dresden Court Orchestra.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith plays Benny Goodman's live performance classics.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:001/2From the 2012 Maribor Festival, music by Janacek, Dvorak, Beethoven, Sculthorpe and Bartok
| 01:002/2Jonathan Swain with Bach, Beethoven, Bruch and Mendelssohn from the 2012 Maribor Festival.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with works by Hummel and Korngold.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with works by Poulenc and Tallis.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with Faure, Bach and Tchaikovsky.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring the Advent Calendar.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents the classical breakfast show, featuring the Advent Calendar.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Tom McKinney presents carols from the BBC Singers and the Advent Calendar.
| 07:00Tom McKinney presents carols from the BBC Singers and the Advent Calendar.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Bach: Cantata, BWV21 (Ich hatte viel Bekummernis).
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Liszt: Festklange.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Brahms: Piano Quartet No 1.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Hummel: Piano Quintet, Op 87.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Strauss: Tod und Verklarung.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Wagner 200 Building a Library: Wagner: Parsifal.
| 09:00James Jolly presents a sequence of musical teachers and pupils, plus a cantata by Telemann
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod on Icelandic classical music's roots and composer Jon Leifs.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod hears the 'original' geyser in Iceland and introduces works by Jon Leifs.
| 12:003/5Works inspired by the world's oldest parliament and a lullaby sung by Bjork.
| 12:004/5Exploring the influence of Iceland's sagas on its music and the contemporary music scene.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod on works by two key musicians: Haflidi Halgrimsson and Daniel Bjarnason.
| 12:15In a special edition, Tom Service surveys the current state of musical theatre.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is Jasper Conran, who chooses music from Bessie Smith and Handel.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00Mark Simpson (clarinet) and Richard Uttley (piano) in Howells, Gavin Higgins and Brahms.
| 13:001/8Leon McCawley (piano) and London Winds in Mozart: Quintet in E flat, K452; Serenade, K388.
| 13:002/8Christian Blackshaw plays Mozart's Piano Sonatas, K281 and K533/494 and the Fantasy, K475.
| 13:003/8The Chiaroscuro Quartet in Mozart: String Quartets in C K465 (Dissonance); in E flat, K428
| 13:004/8The Aronowitz Ensemble in Mozart: Quartet, K80; Adagio, K540; Piano Quartet, K493.
| 13:00Mark Simpson (clarinet) and Richard Uttley (piano) in Howells, Gavin Higgins and Brahms.(R)
| 13:00Camilla Tilling sings music by Schubert, Zemlinsky and Grieg at the Wigmore Hall in London(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/3The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Arnold, Prokofiev, Weber, Hindemith and Walton.
| 14:002/3Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic in music by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Hindemith.
| 14:00Live from Salford, BBC Philharmonic/John Storgards in Hindemith, Shostakovich and Nielsen.
| 14:00Penny Gore presents the seldom heard original version of Verdi's La Forza del Destino.
| 14:003/3Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic in music by Prokofiev and Hindemith.
| 14:00Author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz introduces a selection of his favourite music.
| 14:00Live from the Barbican in London a performance of Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and pianist Stephen Hough.
| 16:30With live music from the Hilliard Ensemble, violinist James Ehnes and soprano Mary Bevan.
| 16:45Live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a performance of Wagner's opera Parsifal.
| | 16:30Tenor Roberto Alagna plus live music from Cafe Society Swing and Oxford Baroque.
| 16:00Julian Joseph presents a special 50th birthday concert for composer and pianist Nikki Iles
| 16:00From Exeter Cathedral.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | 17:00Sean Rafferty presents live music from La Nuova Musica and pianist Mark Bebbington.
| | 17:00Alyn Shipton presents requests including Clifford Brown, Ken Colyer and Louis Armstrong.
| 17:00Dies Natalis by Gerald Finzi. Christopher Finzi conducts tenor Wilfred Brown and the ECO. 17:30Texts and music inspired by flowers, with readings by Emilia Fox and Jamie Glover.
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| 18:00 | 18:001/5Donald Macleod on Icelandic classical music's roots and composer Jon Leifs.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod hears the 'original' geyser in Iceland and introduces works by Jon Leifs.
| | 18:304/5Exploring the influence of Iceland's sagas on its music and the contemporary music scene.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod on works by two key musicians: Haflidi Halgrimsson and Daniel Bjarnason.
| 18:00Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, James Levine conducts Verdi's opera Falstaff
| 18:45Anne McElvoy considers how Germans see their country's cultural role.
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| 19:00 | 19:00From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a performance of Verdi's opera Rigoletto.
| 19:30The BBC CO presents a concert of seasonal choral and orchestral music.
| | 19:301/2BBC SSO in Beethoven: Symphony No 4. Shostakovich: Violin concerto No 1 (with James Ehnes)
| 19:30Ben Parry conducts BBC Singers and Onyx Brass in seasonal music.
| | 19:30Music by Marx and Wolf featuring Elizabeth Watts, Clara Mouriz and Roderick Williams.
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| 20:00 | | | | 20:40John Adams's orchestral paean to post-war Hollywood, and the world of the film noir.
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| 21:00 | | | | 21:002/2The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles in John Adams's City Noir.
| | 21:30Drama in which a man's overeating and plummeting self esteem are an explosive combination.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Matthew Sweet discusses 1963 and Profumo as Lloyd Webber's new musical Stephen Ward opens. 22:451/5Roger Scruton explores the philosophical background that influenced the young Wagner.(R)
| 22:00Philip Dodd with Howard Brenton, Giles Fraser and Lisa Appignanesi, Moniza Alvi. 22:452/5AC Grayling focuses on the crucial years before and after the Dresden uprising of 1849.(R)
| 22:453/5Christopher Janaway explores Wagner's encounter with the philosophy of Schopenhauer.(R)
| 22:00Anne McElvoy presents a first-night review of a new musical adaptation of American Psycho. 22:454/5Michael Tanner explores the relationship between Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche.(R)
| 22:00Ian McMillan's guests are Michael Morpurgo, Benjamin Zephaniah and Laura J Martin. 22:455/5Professor John Deathridge explores the posthumous reputation of Wagner in the 20th century(R)
| 22:153/5Highlights from the 2013 Huddersfield Music Festival: music by Finnissy and Pesson.
| 22:00Ibsen's classic adapted and directed by Richard Eyre for the Almeida Theatre and Radio 3.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Highlights from a 2013 London Jazz Festival edition of the monthly Jazz in the Round event
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with music by John Carpenter, prog rock from Yes and Tchaikovsky on mandolin
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with organ music by Ligeti, Funky Highlife, and Brian Hannerty meets Sun Ra.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with music by Sufjan Stevens, plus a new track from Bosq of Whiskey Barons.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy introduces Andy Kershaw's hour-long tribute to Nelson Mandela.
| | 23:25The Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon perform music by Frank Zappa, Nancarrow and Glass(R)
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