| 00:00 | 00:30Tchaikovsky: Act II of The Nutcracker, and the First Piano Concerto with Stephen Hough.
| 00:301/3Jonathan Swain's selection includes Massenet's Christmas opera Le jongleur de Notre Dame.
| 00:30Bach: Christmas Oratorio. Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. With Jonathan Swain
| 00:302/3Including a performance of Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ given in St Denis, Paris.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents music including piano trios by Turina, Granados and Schubert.
| 00:00Lopa Kothari introduces a concert given by Pakistani Sufi singer Abida Parveen.
| 00:00Geoffrey Smith introduces highlights from 2013.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:003/3Ravel's L'heure espagnole from French radio archives. Recorded in Paris in 1944.
| 01:00Varazdin Chamber Orchestra from Croatia. Music by Stjepan Sulek, Haydn and Verdi.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents carols from the BBC Singers and the Advent Calendar.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents carols from the BBC Singers and the Advent Calendar.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents a Christmas edition of Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents seasonal music, the Musical Map of Britain and requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast, featuring the Musical Map of Britain.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring the Musical Map of Britain.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring the Musical Map of Britain.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Dvorak: Symphony No 6.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve Suite.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Wagner: Siegfried Idyll.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act 1).
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Part 3).
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Haydn: The Creation.
| 09:00Rob Cowan with music depicting ancient Rome, including Liszt, Beethoven, Barber and Handel
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores Beethoven's apprentice years and presents neglected early works.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores how Beethoven's acceptance of his deafness spawned masterpieces.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod discusses a special four-hour concert Beethoven mounted in 1808.
| 12:004/5How the success of Beethoven's 'potboiler' led to the revised version of his opera Fidelio
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod unpicks the overlapping origins of three late Beethoven masterpieces.
| 12:15Celebrated pianist Stephen Hough reflects on a life spent practising.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is South African trumpeter, composer and singer Hugh Masekela.
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| 13:00 | 13:001/7Featuring a piano sonata by Haydn, songs by Wolf and a string quintet by Mendelssohn.
| 13:002/7Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Enescu and the Pavel Haas Quartet perform Janacek.
| 13:003/7A Haydn piano sonata, songs by Wolf and Brahms's Trio for horn, violin and piano.
| 13:004/7Soprano Christiane Karg in songs by Falla and Ravel, plus Ravel's Piano Trio.
| 13:005/7A Haydn piano sonata, a Brahms violin sonata and Weber's Clarinet Quintet.
| 13:006/7Soprano Veronique Gens and pianist Susan Manoff in Faure, Duparc and Chausson.
| 13:007/7Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) and Emanuel Ax (piano) perform music by Brahms.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/5Louise Fryer presents music conducted by Herbert Blomstedt and Jordi Savall.
| 14:002/5With Haydn and Schubert conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Schoenberg from Simon Rattle
| 14:00Christmas carols and readings from the candlelit Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
| 14:004/5Including the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Claudio Abbado in Schubert and Bruckner.
| 14:005/5Claudio Abbado leads the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in, Schoenberg, Brahms and Beethoven.
| 14:00Jessica Duchen with a tribute to some of the outstanding musicians who died in 2013.
| 14:00Emma Kirkby introduces seasonal music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:403/5With Haydn's The Storm from Nikolaus Harnoncourt, plus Rameau: Les Indes Galantes (Act 2).
| | | | 15:00An archive broadcast from St Paul's Cathedral, first transmitted on Christmas Day 1988.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty travels to Wiltshire to discuss a life in music with guitarist Julian Bream
| 16:30Sean Rafferty visits the home of Australian-born lyric soprano Danielle de Niese.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty travels to Dorset to visit conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
| 16:30Pianist Mitsuko Uchida invites Sean Rafferty into her studio for an extended interview.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty visits the home of flautist James Galway, who discusses his life and work.
| 16:00Matthew Sweet explores music and Walt Disney.
| 16:00Mary King explores the links between folk and choral music.(R)
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| 17:00 | 17:45Music from Robin Tritschler (tenor), Lise Berthaud (viola) and Louis Schwizgebel (piano).
| 17:45Performances from Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) and the Apollon Musagete Quartet.
| 17:45Music from Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Zhang Zuo (piano) and Elena Urioste (violin).
| 17:45Music from Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Olena Tokar (soprano) and Sitkovetsky Trio.
| 17:45Performances by Ruby Hughes (soprano), Elena Urioste (violin) and Zhang Zuo (piano).
| 17:00Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes some of the best records of 2013.
| 17:30Texts and music for the festive season, with readings by David Neilson and Naomi Bentley.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:00Julian Joseph with concert music from saxophonist Wayne Shorter and the late Stan Tracey.
| 18:45Paul Allen explores, with Britain's leading actors, the allure of the villain in drama.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in Wagner's Das Rheingold.(R)
| 19:00A performance given at the Royal Albert Hall of Wagner's Die Walkure.(R)
| 19:00The John Wilson Orchestra in a Prom celebrating Hollywood film scores.(R)
| 19:00Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in Wagner's Siegfried.(R)
| 19:00The Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim performs Wagner's Gotterdammerung.(R)
| 19:30Nicholas Collon conducts Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia at Glyndebourne.
| 19:30The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vanska in Gorecki, Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:45Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf talks to Joan Bakewell about his life and work.
| | 21:00Joan Bakewell is in conversation with comic actress and writer Sally Phillips. 21:30Nigel Kennedy, Palestine Strings, Orchestra of Life in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:15Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis perform Schubert's Piano Sonata in C, D812 (Grand Duo).
| | | | | 22:005/5Music from Thomalla, Ruben Sverre Gjertsen and Barry Guy from 2013's Huddersfield Festival
| 22:00The story of Billy Budd and the mutinous author who wrote this controversial novella.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson reviews the best jazz albums of 2013 with guests Helen Mayhew and John Fordham.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt presents music by Morton Feldman, James Brown, Charles Mingus, Otha Soul.
| 23:15Max Reinhardt's selection includes Miles Davis, Richard Dawson and Nancy Elizabeth.
| 23:30A session featuring saxophonist Trish Clowes, violinist Donald Grant and writer Peter Cant
| | | 23:30From the Royal Albert Hall, London, Richard Hills in the annual organ Prom.(R)
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