| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Haydn's The Creation with the Gabrieli Players and Paul McCreesh.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents an all-Mozart programme from the Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents the Swedish RSO in a concert of Strauss waltzes and polkas.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents a concert entitled Puer Natus in Bethleem with Vox Luminis.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Christmas carols from Denmark, Romania, Belarus and the UK.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith surveys the greatest hits of bandleader Jimmie Lunceford.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a gala concert from New York's Carnegie Hall.
| 01:00Featuring Marc-André Hamelin at the 2014 International Chopin Piano Festival in Poland.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with a musical advent calendar.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with a musical advent calendar.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's show, and the BBC Singers perform live in the studio.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents a special Christmas eve programme.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the winner of the Breakfast Carol Competition.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Tom McKinney presents a Boxing Day edition of Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 07:00Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Including John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano and Nielsen: Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia semplice).
| 09:00Including Machaut: Quant en moy and Kraus: Symphony in F.
| 09:00Including John Blow: Chaconne in G and Stenhammar: Symphony No 2.
| 09:00Including Schubert: Die schone Mullerin and Alfven: Swedish Rhapsody No 3 (Dalarapsodi).
| 09:00Including Mozart: Divertimento in E flat and Grieg: Holberg Suite.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Poulenc: Organ Concerto.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents a mixture of seasonal and festive music.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Franz Berwald's early years, from child violin prodigy to composer.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod describes Berwald's encounter with Mendelssohn and his new career in Berlin
| 12:003/5Exploring the most creative period of Berwald's life, when he composed his symphonies.
| 12:004/5Exploring Berwald's operas, his struggles with the establishment and his business acumen.
| 12:005/5Exploring Berwald's last years, in which he saw his opera Estrella de Soria staged.
| 12:15Chris Watson demonstrates connections between the sounds of nature and human music-making.(R)
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is Canadian pianist and rapper Chilly Gonzales.
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| 13:00 | 13:00From Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Kathryn Stott in Faure, Franck, Ravel and Fitkin.(R)
| 13:001/4The Danish String Quartet: Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op 54. Nielsen: String Quartet No 3
| 13:002/4The Danish String Quartet plays Nielsen's String Quartet No 2 as well as Nordic folk tunes
| 13:003/4Danish String Quartet in Beethoven's String Quartet No 1 and Nielsen's String Quartet No 1
| 13:004/4The Danish String Quartet performs Nielsen's String Quartet No 4 and Nordic folk music.
| 13:00Psychiatrist Dr Richard Kogan shows how some composers' mental illness shaped their music.(R)
| 13:00Rachel Podger (violin) features in a performance of some of Biber's Rosary Sonatas.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/3Penny Gore presents music by Sibelius, Kalevi Aho, Ingvar Lidholm and Beethoven.
| 14:002/3Penny Gore presents music by Sibeliu, Salonen, Norman, Norgard and Magnus Lindberg.
| 14:003/3Penny Gore introduces music by Nielsen, Staffan Bjorkland and Beethoven.
| 14:00Performance of Tchaikovsky's only comic opera, the Christmas story The Tsarina's Slippers.
| 14:00Christmas carols and readings from the candlelit chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
| | 14:00Lucie Skeaping introduces music composed by Bach for 27 December.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30An archive broadcast from St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City.(R)
| | 15:45Sean Rafferty visits soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at home in the Sussex countryside.
| 15:00Matthew Sweet presents music from film adaptations of the works of Charles Dickens.
| 15:00An archive broadcast from St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Texts and music exploring shopping and trade. Readings by Phil Davis and Raquel Cassidy.(R)
| 16:30Poems and music inspired by the Blessed Virgin Mary, with Jenny Agutter and Andrew Buchan.(R)
| 16:30Texts and music about domestic service. Readers: Adrian Scarborough and Sophie Thompson.(R)
| 16:30Texts and music about kisses, with readings by Pippa Nixon and Jonathan Cullen.(R)
| | 16:00Alyn Shipton presents all styles of jazz and listeners' records of the year.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch asks pianist and composer Stephen Hough about his favourite choral music
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| 17:00 | 17:45Clemency Burton-Hill with music by Francesco Tosti, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Bach.
| 17:45The current BBC New Generation Artists perform Quilter, Mozart and Beethoven.
| 17:45BBC New Generation Artists in Beethoven, Bruch and Humperdinck.
| 17:45BBC New Generation Artists including trumpeter Laura Jurd and pianist Pavel Kolesnikov.
| 17:00Sheila Hancock and Scott Handy read poems and prose about giving and receiving gifts.(R)
| 17:00Claire Martin reviews some of the jazz highlights of 2015.
| 17:30From cowboys to Copland with Kerry Shale and Amelia Lowdell way out west.
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| 18:00 | | | | | 18:00BBC New Generation Artists including trombonist Peter Moore and pianist Beatrice Rana.
| 18:30Donald Macleod presents an ENO production of Verdi's opera The Force of Destiny.
| 18:45Andrew McGregor visits Havana to investigate Cuba's classical music scene today.(R)
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| 19:00 | 19:00The Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Bernard Haitink play Mozart and Schubert.(R)
| 19:00The San Francisco Symphony performing with Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Jeremy Denk.(R)
| 19:00San Francisco Symphony perform with Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Yuja Wang.(R)
| 19:00London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev play the complete Prokofiev piano concertos(R)
| 19:00Katie Derham presents John Wilson and his orchestra paying tribute to Leonard Bernstein.(R)
| | 19:30Violinist Julia Fischer joins St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov.
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| 21:00 | 21:25Alina Ibragimova performs Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin.(R)
| 21:20Alina Ibragimova performs Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin.(R)
| 21:25Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Andras Schiff in JS Bach's Goldberg Variations.(R)
| 21:40The first part of Yo-Yo Ma performing the complete solo cello suites by JS Bach.(R)
| 21:10The second part of Yo-Yo Ma's performance of the complete solo cello suites by JS Bach.(R)
| | 21:00Elizabeth Robins's 1907 suffragette play, starring Zoe Tapper and Samuel West.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:451/5Novelist Hanne Orstavik on her childhood memories of Sami winter solstice legends.
| 22:452/5Per Rosenberg on wooden churches in Scandinavia and the symbolic importance of the forest.
| 22:453/5Karl Seigfried explores Nordic Yule myths and why Norse mythology still speaks to people.
| 22:454/5Lars Petter Sveen recalls growing up in an atheist family.
| 22:455/5Andrew Brown recalls his experience of a Swedish Christmas.
| 22:004/5With music from Klangforum Wien, Richard Uttley and featured festival composer Jurg Frey.
| 22:30The Ghislieri Chorus and Consort perform sacred works by Durante, d'Astorga and Handel.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Sidsel Endresen and Stian Westerhus perform as part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season.
| 23:00Mara Carlyle with alternative festive fare, including Terje Isungset and Edmund Finnis.
| 23:00Mara Carlyle with an alternative festive mix, including Gori Women's Choir and Phil Kline.
| 23:00Mara Carlyle presents an alternative festive mix, featuring Anna Meredith and Vic Chesnutt
| 23:002/2Lopa Kothari presents highlights from 2015's Womad festival.
| | 23:30The Takacs Quartet in Janacek and Smetana at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival.
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