| 00:00 | 00:30Includes Haydn's oratorio The Creation conducted by Philippe Herreweghe.
| 00:30Including festive music from the BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra.
| 00:30With Catriona Young. Including a concert from the 2014 Martha Argerich Project in Lugano.
| 00:30Catriona Young's selection includes a Swedish carol concert.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a selection of Spanish music performed on historical guitars.
| | 00:001/2Geoffrey Smith celebrates Count Basie's work with his original Orchestra.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Catriona Young presents a concert of Svendsen, Bruch and Prokofiev.
| 01:00With Jonathan Swain. Includes Danielle de Niese and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist.
| 06:30The BBC Singers perform the winning entry in the Carol Competition live in the studio.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents a special Christmas Eve edition.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, with the winner of the Carol Competition.
| 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 Best of British Playlist.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents the breakfast show, including the Best of British Playlist.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Piano Trio in D (Ghost).
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Includes Sarah's Essential Choice: Haydn: Piano Trio in G (Gypsy Rondo)
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Brahms: Clarinet Quintet.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Octet.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Schumann: Piano Quintet.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents festive music by Fanny Mendelssohn, Borodin and Waldteufel.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Music Vivaldi wrote specially to display the talents of the girls of the Pieta.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod introduces music from two of Vivaldi's operatic successes.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores how Johann Georg Pisendel helped promote Vivaldi's music.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod discusses the singer with whom Vivaldi became infamously associated.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod introduces music from the final decade of Vivaldi's life.
| 12:15Nicholas Baragwanath explores a forgotten mode of music education once used in Naples.(R)
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is actor Roger Moore.
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| 13:00 | 13:001/5Gerald Finley (baritone) and Julius Drake (piano) perform Schubert's Schwanengesang.
| 13:002/5With Mark Padmore in Schumann's Dichterliebe and Till Fellner in a Haydn piano sonata.
| 13:003/5Soprano Soile Isokoski sings Grieg and Schubert and the Ebene Quartet plays Mozart.
| 13:004/5Igor Levit (piano) in Beethoven sonatas: Op 10 No 1; Op 49 No 2; Op 57 (Appassionata).
| 13:005/5Music by Schubert: part-songs and Piano Sonata in B flat, D960, with Marc-Andre Hamelin.
| 13:00Vocal quartet La Colombina in a performance of music from 16th-century Spain.
| 13:00The Badke String Quartet and Maximiliano Martin (clarinet) play music by Haydn and Brahms.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4The Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle in Brahms and Schumann's First Symphonies.
| 14:002/4The Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle in Brahms and Schumann's Second Symphonies.
| 14:003/4Simon Rattle leads the Berlin Philharmonic in the Third Symphonies of Brahms and Schumann.
| 14:00Christmas carols and readings from the candlelit chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
| 14:004/4Simon Rattle leads the Berlin Philharmonic in the fourth symphonies of Schumann and Brahms
| 14:00Ballet dancer Zenaida Yanowsky selects music that has inspired her.
| 14:00Lucie Skeaping investigates the ancient musical tradition of wassailing.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30An archive broadcast from Tewkesbury Abbey from Christmastide 2002 with the Exon Singers.(R)
| 15:40Soloist Martha Argerich joins the Berlin Philharmonic to perform Schumann's Piano Concerto
| | | 15:00An archive broadcast from Tewkesbury Abbey from Christmastide 2002 with the Exon Singers.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Texts and music on the theme of the Victorians. With Anna Maxwell Martin and Rory Kinnear.(R)
| 16:30Texts and music about parents, with readings by Harriet Walter and James Garnon.(R)
| 16:30A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of British rivers.(R)
| 16:30Texts and music on the theme of bells. Reading by Sylvestra le Touzel and David Troughton.(R)
| 16:30Texts and music inspired by flowers, with readings by Emilia Fox and Jamie Glover.(R)
| 16:00Matthew Sweet on the great Italian maestro who died earlier this week.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the modern revival of the West Gallery music tradition.(R)
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| 17:00 | 17:45Music by Mozart, Schubert, Shostakovich performed by Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
| 17:45Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform music by Beethoven, Boccherini, Britten and Brahms.
| 17:45Radio 3 new Generation Artists perform music by Brahms, Grieg and Haydn.
| 17:45Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform Schubert, Schumann, Giuliani and Canteloube.
| 17:45Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Schubert's Winterreise.
| 17:00Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests looking back at jazz events of 2014.
| 17:30A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of rooms.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:00Claire Martin with Dee Dee Bridgewater and Alan Broadbent & the Mark Nightingale Big Band.
| 18:45Matthew Sweet explores WWI popular culture with the help of historians and performers.
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| 19:00 | 19:30The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the OAE perform Bach's B Minor Mass.
| 19:00From Proms 2014: London Philharmonic/Vladimir Jurowski in Holst, Schoenberg and Scriabin.(R)
| 19:00The Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Andreas Haefliger from the 2014 BBC Proms.(R)
| 19:00Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle. Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances. Stravinsky: The Firebird.(R)
| 19:30Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Seoul Philharmonic in Debussy, Unsuk Chin and Tchaikovsky.(R)
| 19:30Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra under Roger Norrington in Beethoven, Berlioz and Dvorak(R)
| 19:30Franz Welser-Most conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in music by Brahms and Jorg Widmann.(R)
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| 21:00 | | 21:00Pet Shop Boys and Chrissie Hynde in song arrangements and the work A Man from the Future.(R)
| 21:00The Tallis Scholars under Peter Phillips in Tavener: Ikon of Light; Requiem Fragments.(R)
| 21:00A Prom evoking the swing era, with Clare Teal, James Pearson and Grant Windsor.(R)
| | 21:10Endymion and BBC Singers under David Hill in Steve Reich's The Desert Music.(R)
| 21:00Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston star in Shakespeare's tragedy of love and power.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Philip Dodd talks to artist Sean Scully and reflects on the way colour is perceived.(R) 22:451/5Writer Tod Wodicka describes suffering terrifying night terrors when he was younger.
| 22:452/5The Forward Prize-winning Jamaican poet, novelist and critic examines some awkward truths.
| 22:453/5Erica Wagner examines her mother's stories about her father and an unusual wedding gift.
| 22:454/5Writer Jane Stevenson tells the true story of an unusual encounter during house-hunting.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents an extended interview with novelist Ian McEwan. 22:455/5Novelist and market enthusiast Suzanne Joinson shares a story she has never told before.
| 22:005/5Including music by Brice Pauset, Hans Thomalla, Andreas Dohmen and Jon Oivind Ness.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson and guests review the musical highlights of 2014.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe presents the best from a selection of 2014's collaborative sessions.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe with festive music from Les Paul and modern jazz from Troyka.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe introduces a Collaboration Session with Martin Baker and Simon Fisher Turner
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy present highlights from World on 3's Commonwealth Connections series.
| | 23:25The Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Ben Gernon performs music by Peter Maxwell Davies.(R)
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