| 00:00 | 00:30John Shea introduces a performance of Schnittke's Faust Cantata from Poland.
| 00:30Foggy Albion: John Shea presents a Russian concert of British music.
| 00:30John Shea presents a concert of Parallel Lives with works by Bach and Handel.
| 00:30John Shea presents a programme of Chinese music by Qigang Chen, Unsuk Chin and Zhao Jiping
| 00:30John Shea presents the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Mahler, Haydn and Schumann.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith celebrates vocal virtuoso Kurt Elling and his mentor, the late Mark Murphy.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00John Shea introduces the Warsaw Philharmonic performing Mahler's Sixth Symphony.
| 01:00John Shea presents music from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Including Beethoven: Symphony No 5 and Pierre Monteux conducting Ravel: Ma mere l'oye.
| 09:00Including Berlioz: Love Scene (Romeo and Juliet) and Beethoven: Symphony No 2.
| 09:00Including Haydn: String Quartet and Pierre Monteux conducting Stravinsky's Petrushka.
| 09:00Including a recording by David Munrow and Pierre Monteux in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4.
| 09:00Including Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue and Pierre Monteux in Haydn: Symphony No 101.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Music by Henri Dutilleux.
| 09:00James Jolly with contemporary works by Mason Bates and a Beethoven piano quartet.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores Stockhausen's early years and his training in Cologne.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod on Stockhausen's career taking off at Darmstadt and in Paris with Messiaen.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod on Stockhausen's time in the electronic studio at Cologne Radio Station.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod discusses Stockhausen's worldwide fame by the end of the 1960s.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod discusses Stockhausen's two major cycles, Licht and Klang.
| 12:15Tom Service presents a tribute to French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is composer Anna Meredith.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00Benjamin Appl and Graham Johnson perform songs by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms and others
| 13:001/4The Pavel Haas Quartet and Colin Currie perform works by Maxwell Davies, Goehr and Haas.
| 13:002/4Alexei Ogrintchouk and the Psophos Quartet perform works by Britten, Debussy and Alberga.
| 13:003/4Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and pianist Martin Helmchen perform MacRae, Messiaen and Franck.
| 13:004/4The Ebene Quartet perform Deirdre Gribbin's Calum's Light, plus works by Webern and Ravel.
| 13:00Guitarist Milos Karadaglic presents a personal choice of music.(R)
| 13:00Benjamin Appl and Graham Johnson perform songs by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms and others(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Jonathan Swain presents contemporary works, including music by Watkins, Martinu and Adams.
| 14:002/4Jonathan Swain presents new recordings of MacMillan, Capperauld, Debussy and Dutilleux.
| 14:003/4Jonathan Swain presents recordings of orchestral works by Escaich, Penderecki and Berio.
| 14:00Jonathan Swain presents the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's Emilie.
| 14:004/4Jonathan Swain's selection includes Tippett's A Child of Our Time.
| | 14:00Lucie Skeaping explores the work of Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet counts down through movie scores featuring numbers in the title.
| 15:00From the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30With kive music from Britten Sinfonia musicians, plus choreographer Will Tuckett.
| 16:30With music from pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, cellist Jamal Aliyev and pianist Sarah Nicolls.
| 16:30Sarah Walker presents, with composers and artists paying tribute to Pierre Boulez.
| 16:30Sarah Walker hosts live music from viola player Luba Tunnicliffe and pianist Hannah Watson
| 16:30Suzy Klein presents a special edition live from Tate Modern gallery in London.
| 16:00Alyn Shipton's selection includes Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie on Jazz Party.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch focuses on music for choir and brass instruments.(R)
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00A special edition from the Edinburgh Fringe with music from the Darius Brubeck Quartet.
| 17:30Anna Chancellor and Julian Rhind-Tutt in prose and poetry evocative of tanglewood jungles.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod explores Stockhausen's early years and his training in Cologne.(R)
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod on Stockhausen's career taking off at Darmstadt and in Paris with Messiaen.(R)
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod on Stockhausen's time in the electronic studio at Cologne Radio Station.(R)
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod discusses Stockhausen's worldwide fame by the end of the 1960s.(R)
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod discusses Stockhausen's two major cycles, Licht and Klang.(R)
| 18:00With Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role and Ildar Abdrazakov as King Henry VIII.
| 18:45Sarah Dillon reveals a tale of money and passion behind Dickens's Great Expectations.
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| 19:00 | 19:30The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain performs Tchaikovsky, Korngold and Prokofiev
| 19:30The Heath Quartet and James Baillieu (piano) play Mozart and Elgar at Wigmore Hall.
| 19:30Alan Gilbert directs the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Brahms, Beethoven and Haydn
| 19:30Psappha performs music by George Crumb, Elliott Carter and Steve Reich.
| 19:30A New Year New Music concert with London Contemporary Orchestra, plus Leafcutter John.
| | 19:30A tribute to Boulez: highlights of the concert with the BBC SO to mark his 80th birthday.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | | 21:00Tom Stoppard's comic tragedy about the meaning and purpose of life and art.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Petroc Trelawny explores musical responses to the dark northern winters in Tromso, Norway.(R) 22:451/5Robert Worby reflects on the first performance of John Cage's 4'33".
| 22:00Matthew Sweet talks to David and Ben Aaronovitch, Viv Albertine and Simon Stephens. 22:452/5Sara Mohr-Pietsch on the appetite in the west for eastern European music after 1989.
| 22:00Philip Dodd explores the writing of Lorraine Hansberry and its continuing resonance. 22:453/5Ivan Hewett reflects on Brian Eno's creation of a new genre, which he named ambient music.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy and Laura Cumming on a 19th-century court case involving a Velazquez portrait 22:454/5Sarah Walker reflects on Steve Reich's radically minimalist Four Organs.
| 22:00Ian McMillan explores literary beginnings and the importance of the first line. 22:455/5Tom Service reflects on the lack of any seismic shocks in 21st-century music.
| 22:00Recordings from the London Contemporary Music Festival, plus new music by Christopher Fox.
| 22:20Telemann's late cantata Ino, performed by Nuria Rial and L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra.
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| 23:00 | 23:00A second chance to hear Beats and Pieces perform music from their latest album All In.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt is joined in the studio by Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt is joined by sound artist and composer Janek Schaefer.
| 23:00Max Reinhardt is joined by electronic musician Leafcutter John.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari with new bands playing old music from Georgia and South Korea.
| | 23:20Frank Peter Zimmermann and Christian Zacharias perform Beethoven's violin sonatas.
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