| 00:00 | 00:30Catriona Young's selection includes a performance of Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ.
| 00:30Catriona Young with performances given by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the 1990s.
| 00:30The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Brazilian musicians perform Villa-Lobos.
| 00:30With pianist Rudolf Buchbinder performing works by Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert in Warsaw
| 00:30Includes the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Olivier Latry in Poulenc's Organ Concerto.
| | 00:00Geoffrey presents a Christmas special, featuring Art Blakey, Fats Waller and Bunny Berigan
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Catriona Young's selection includes music from the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana.
| 01:00Including Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with soloists Ruth Ziesak and Nathalie Stutzmann.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist.
| 06:30The BBC Singers are live in the studio with the Breakfast Carol Competition.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents the breakfast show, including the Breakfast Carol Competition.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents the breakfast show, including the Breakfast Carol Competition.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Bruckner: Symphony No 7.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 1.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Brahms: Piano Trio No 1 in B, Op 8.
| 09:00With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Beethoven: Piano Trio in D.
| 09:00James Jolly's selection of music includes Haydn's String Quartet No 66 in G, Op 77.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Previn's early life in pre-war Berlin and first experiences as a Hollywood film composer.
| 12:002/5Previn's success as a jazz pianist in the 1950s and marriage to lyricist Dory Langdon.
| 12:003/5Previn's role as LSO chief conductor and life in England with his third wife, Mia Farrow.
| 12:004/5Including Previn's famous appearance on the 1971 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show.
| 12:005/5Previn discusses his personal and musical relationship with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
| 12:15Tom Service reviews three new books on music and a CD of Debussy songs.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood.
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| 13:00 | 13:00The Badke String Quartet and Maximiliano Martin (clarinet) play music by Haydn and Brahms.
| 13:001/4Pianist Lise de la Salle plays Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and works by Brahms.
| 13:002/4Denis Kozhukhin (piano) performs music by Liszt and Mussorgsky at LSO St Luke's, London.
| 13:003/4Federico Colli (piano) in Beethoven: Sonata in A flat and Schubert: Impromptus, D935.
| 13:004/4Alice Sara Ott (piano) in Beethoven: Sonata (The Tempest). Liszt: Paganini Studies.
| 13:00Veronika Skuplik directs La dolcezza in motets and violin sonatas by Biber.
| 13:001/2The first part of Radio 3's annual day of Christmas music.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/5The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music by Holmboe, Dudley, Nielsen, Sibelius and Berwald
| 14:002/5The BBC National Orchestra of Wales features in music by Turina, Arnold, Delius and Falla.
| 14:003/5A live concert by the BBC Singers including the Breakfast Carol Competition finalists.
| 14:004/5BBC SO in Nielsen: Maskarade Overture. Sibelius: Violin Concerto. Klami: Kalevala Suite.
| 14:005/5The Ulster Orchestra performs live in Belfast and the BBC Philharmonic plays in Salford.
| 14:00BBC business correspondent Peter Day presents his choice of music for the festive season.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Manchester Cathedral.
| | | | 15:00From Manchester Cathedral.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Live music from choirs Tenebrae and The Clerks plus pianist Mihai Ritivoiu.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents live music from vocal group Ensemble Plus Ultra.
| 16:30With conductor Peter Phillips, viol player Liam Byrne, John Mark Ainsley and Julian Joseph
| 16:30Sean Rafferty with violinist Maxim Vengerov, Piers Lane and choral composer John Rutter.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein present a Christmas special, with live music and readings.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton's selection of requests includes music from Richard Galliano and Bill Frisell
| 16:002/2The second part of Radio 3's annual day of Christmas music.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Previn's early life in pre-war Berlin and first experiences as a Hollywood film composer.
| 18:302/5Previn's success as a jazz pianist in the 1950s and marriage to lyricist Dory Langdon.
| 18:303/5Previn's role as LSO chief conductor and life in England with his third wife, Mia Farrow.
| 18:304/5Including Previn's famous appearance on the 1971 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show.
| 18:005/5Previn discusses his personal and musical relationship with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
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| 19:00 | 19:301/5Vox Luminis in late Renaissance and early Baroque music celebrating the birth of Christ.
| 19:302/5Polyphony perform festive 20th-century music including Tavener, Howells and Warlock.
| 19:303/5Gallicantus performs masses by Tallis and Rore at the Temple Church in London.
| 19:304/5The Temple Church Choir and Temple Brass perform 20th- and 21st-century choral music.
| 19:005/5From the Temple Church, Handel's Messiah in a version with wind orchestra accompaniment.
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| 20:00 | | | | | | 20:45Saxophonist Robert Fowler performs music associated with jazz great Gerry Mulligan.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Film director Wim Wenders and philosopher Mary Zournazi discuss peace with Philip Dodd. 22:451/5Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in wartime Britain as a boy.(R)
| 22:00Philip Dodd presents. With Slavoj Zizek, City of Angels and debating protest movements. 22:452/5Frederic Raphael recalls his life as a young writer in the post-war Paris of Sartre.(R)
| 22:00Matthew Sweet and panto with Jeffrey Richards. Bryony Lavery on stage craft. E O Wilson. 22:453/5Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in Franco's Spain during the late 1950s.(R)
| 22:00Poet, critic and broadcaster Clive James is in conversation with Philip Dodd. 22:454/5Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in early 1960s Italy.(R)
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents a Christmas edition with guests Guy Garvey and John Hamilton May. 22:455/5Writer Frederic Raphael recalls living in Greece in the early 1960s.(R)
| 22:004/5Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present music by Alexander Schubert and Christian Wolff
| 22:00Three new plays to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Paines Plough theatre company.
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| 23:00 | 23:00A gig celebrating 75 years of Blue Note, featuring Robert Glasper.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with new releases by Tanya Auclair, Pete Philipson and Bugge Wesseltoft.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with new tracks by Floating Points, Venezuelan producer Arca and Minko.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe plays more tracks with sleigh bells and music written for the BBC test card.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy presents previously unbroadcast highlights from the 2014 Womad Festival.
| | 23:30The Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon from the 2014 BBC Proms.(R)
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