| 00:00 | 00:30Catriona Young presents the Swedish Radio Chorus directed by Peter Dijkstra in Bach motets
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a concert featuring music by Strauss, Mozart and Nielsen.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents a performance of Schumann's oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri.
| 00:30Catriona Young introduces a concert given by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
| 00:30Catriona Young introduces a piano recital given by Maria Joao Pires and Julien Brocal.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith celebrates the music of Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Catriona Young presents a concert given by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
| 01:00As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, a concert from Reykjavik. With Catriona Young
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| 06:00 | 06:30Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with a musical advent calendar.
| 06:30Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with a musical advent calendar.
| 06:30For Radio 3's Northern Lights season, Petroc Trelawny presents from Tromso in Norway.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with a musical advent calendar.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with a musical advent calendar.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with a musical advent calendar.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with a musical advent calendar.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Including Schubert: Mass No 6 in E flat (conclusion) and Crusell: Clarinet Concerto No 2.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Includes Perotin's Viderunt omnes and Sibelius's Night Ride and Sunrise
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Paganini's 24 Caprices and Grieg's Piano Concerto.
| 09:00Including Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor and Nielsen's Symphony No 2, Op 16.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Includes Britten's A Boy Was Born and Stenhammar's Serenade in F, Op 31
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor and guests. Building a Library features Sibelius's Symphony No 1.
| 09:00Music from the northernmost parts of the world, including Ture Rangstrom's Fourth Symphony
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod on Sibelius's most famous celebration of the Finnish people, Finlandia.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores Sibelius's decadent life in 1890s Helsinki.
| 12:003/5How Sibelius became caught up in the Finnish national fervour of the early 20th century.
| 12:004/5Three of Sibelius's most powerful - and unusual - evocations of the Finnish character.
| 12:005/5With Sibelius's most controversial work, plus perhaps his greatest symphonic statement.
| 12:15Presented by Tom Service. Including books on opera characters and world music traditions.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guests is dancer and choreographer Akram Khan.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Adrian Brendel plays Chopin, Debussy and Birtwistle.
| 13:001/4With pianist Christian Ihle Hadland performing Bach's Goldberg Variations.
| 13:002/4The Engegard Quartet and Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) in music by Beethoven and Schumann
| 13:003/4Ciurlionis and Engegard Quartets feature in music by Pakalnis, Thommessen and Mendelssohn.
| 13:004/4With the Ciurlionis Quartet performing Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet.
| 13:00Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth with her choice of music that has inspired her.
| 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Adrian Brendel plays Chopin, Debussy and Birtwistle.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Live from Guildhall, Londonderry, Ulster Orchestra in Gade, Stenhammar, Nielsen, Sibelius.
| 14:001/4The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Saeverud, Wennakoski and Wiren.
| 14:002/4The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Sibelius, Saariaho and Rautavaara live in Salford.
| 14:003/4The BBC SSO and BBC Singers perform five cantatas from Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
| 14:004/4The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs music by Ellington and Gershwin.
| | 14:00Fiona Talkington is joined by Anna Maria Friman to explore Nordic folk and medieval music.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Gloucester Cathedral.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music from Swedish cinema.
| 15:00From Gloucester Cathedral.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Suzy Klein presents, with live music from She'Koyokh and Siglo de Oro plus Jaap van Zweden
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents live music from the Choir of Royal Holloway and pianist Giovanni Nesi.
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents live music from The Cardinall's Musick and Claire Martin.
| | 16:30Suzy Klein with a special edition from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes more Scandinavian jazz.
| 16:00Part of a concert given by the Nacka Music School in Stockholm to celebrate St Lucia's Day
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| 17:00 | | | | 17:00Guests include pianist Inon Barnatan and recorder player Tabea Debus, plus Angelique Kidjo
| | 17:00A concert given at Sage Gateshead to mark the centenary of Frank Sinatra's birth.
| 17:30Texts and music about living in the frozen north. Readers: Bill Paterson and Janie Dee.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod on Sibelius's most famous celebration of the Finnish people, Finlandia.(R)
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod explores Sibelius's decadent life in 1890s Helsinki.(R)
| 18:003/5How Sibelius became caught up in the Finnish national fervour of the early 20th century.(R)
| 18:304/5Three of Sibelius's most powerful - and unusual - evocations of the Finnish character.(R)
| 18:305/5With Sibelius's most controversial work, plus perhaps his greatest symphonic statement.(R)
| 18:00Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a performance of Verdi's Rigoletto.
| 18:45Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough asks whether there is a shared culture in the north of Europe
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| 19:00 | 19:30The Halle performs music by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms.
| 19:30Laurence Equilbey conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Handel's Messiah.
| 19:00The English Concert plays Christmas music at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London.
| 19:30The Helsinki Philharmonic and John Storgards play Sibelius from Birmingham.
| 19:30Live from the Barbican, the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Hovhaness, Andrew Norman and Strauss
| | 19:30Musicians from Finland, Sweden and Iceland perform Bach, Crusell, Kirsten and Mendelssohn.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30A meditation on the cultural representation of comas.(R)
| 21:00A celebration of contemporary Nordic writing in three new short plays.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Tom Service travels to Finland in search of the real Sibelius and his landscapes.(R) 22:451/5Poet John Burnside explores his fascination with the Sami landscapes of northern Norway.
| 22:00Joanne Harris and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough discuss the god Loki and Norse beliefs. 22:452/5Travel writer Sara Wheeler recalls her time visiting Canada's Arctic region.
| 22:00Margaret Atwood, Arnaldur Indriadason and MJ McGrath talk about crime fiction and cold. 22:453/5Gina Moseley describes leading a team of cavers into an unknown cavern system in Greenland
| 22:00Mark Baldwin, Catherine Wood, Jennifer Walshe, Sarah Kent and Vayu Naidu debate the arts. 22:454/5Daniel Kalder conjures the vast landscapes east of the Urals, where taiga becomes tundra.
| 22:00Ian McMillan celebrates the writing of the northernmost parts of the world. 22:455/5Jason Mark visits northern Alaska and reflects on the impact of our lust for hydrocarbons.
| 22:00Andrew McGregor and Sara Mohr-Pietsch report from the 2015 British Composer Awards.
| 22:20Organist Hans-Ola Ericsson plays Bach and Rameau at 2015's Stockholm Early Music Festival.
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| 23:00 | 23:00For Radio 3's Northern Lights season Jez Nelson presents music from the Finnish jazz scene
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music from Frifot, Wimme Saari and Rautavaara.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington introduces recordings of Siberian music, plus Jan Garbarek and Svang.
| 23:00Thomas Stronen and Hilmar Jensson in session, as part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season.
| 23:00Tanya Tagaq's soundtrack to the classic 1922 silent film Nanook of the North.
| | 23:20The Modigliani Quartet performs Ravel's Quartet in F and Dohnanyi's Quartet No 3, Op 33.
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