| 00:00 | 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Including the Swedish Radio Chorus in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Including Bach's Goldberg Variations played by Sir András Schiff.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Including an archive performance from 1971 of Beethoven's Fidelio.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Including another programe in the complete Mozart piano concertos.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Featuring a choral concert by WDR Radio Chorus and Stefan Parkman.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith surveys the celebrated career of drummer Gene Krupa.(R)
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00With Jonathan Swain. Vox Luminis perform music for the season.
| 01:00John Shea presents a selection of Christmas music from Les Talens Lyriques.
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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 Breakfast show, with a musical advent calendar.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, and is joined by the BBC Singers.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with a musical advent calendar.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents a Christmas Eve edition of Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
| 07:00Martin Handley with a Christmas Day edition, including the winner of the Carol Competition
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| 09:00 | 09:00Artist of the Week: pianist Claudio Arrau, featured performing Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Claudio Arrau, featured playing Schubert's Piano Sonata 19 in C minor.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: pianist Claudio Arrau, featured performing Schumann's Humoreske Op 20.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Claudio Arrau, featured performing Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: pianist Claudio Arrau, featured performing Debussy's Images (Book 2).
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21.
| 09:00Jonathan Swain's Christmas selection includes music by Mozart and Ravel.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Why Prokofiev chose to return to the USSR at the height of Stalin's Great Terror.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on the genesis of Prokofiev's ballet masterpiece Romeo and Juliet.
| 12:003/5Focusing on Prokofiev's first struggles with the brutal realities of state criticism.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod tells the troubled story of Prokofiev's operatic masterpiece War and Peace.
| 12:005/5Prokofiev's decline and death after his music was denounced by the state in the late 1940s
| 12:15Sean Rafferty visits Lesley Garrett at her home to learn about her career and passions.
| 12:00For Christmas Day, Michael Berkeley's guest is Archbishop John Sentamu.
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| 13:00 | 13:00From Wigmore Hall, London. Cellist Miklos Perenyi performs music by Bach and Kodaly.
| 13:001/4Music by Mozart, Bach and Stravinsky from the Bath Mozartfest 2016.
| 13:002/4Music by Mozart, Debussy and Brahms from the Bath Mozartfest 2016.
| 13:003/4Mozart, Weber, Baermann, with the Nash Ensemble, Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore.
| 13:004/4The Nash Ensemble performs Mozart's Serenade in B flat, K361 'Gran Partita' in Bath.
| 13:00Actor Krister Henriksson presents a personal selection of music.(R)
| 13:00From Wigmore Hall, London. Cellist Miklos Perenyi performs music by Bach and Kodaly.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4With the BBC Singers playing entries for the 2016 Radio 3 Carol Competition.
| 14:002/4The BBC NOW in music by Respighi, Kodaly, Dutilleux, Szymanowski, Colin Matthews and Faure
| 14:003/4The BBC Singers in a live concert of carols and readings for the winter solstice.
| 14:00Verity Sharp presents a performance from the Barbican of Bellini's opera Adelson e Salvini
| 14:004/4With the BBC Philharmonic performing Shostakovich and the BBC Concert Orchestra in Verdi.
| | 14:00Christmas carols and readings from the candlelit chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30An archive service of music and readings with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.(R)
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet and Neil Brand explore film music from the golden age of cinema.
| 15:45Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Christmas favourites from the classical and folk worlds.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include Elena Urioste, Pavel Kolesnikov and Cantabile.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty's guests include conductor Stephen Layton and folk singer Cara Dillon.
| 16:30Live music from Danielle de Niese, Temple Church Choir, Septura and Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
| 16:30Texts and music about the duration of a day. Readers: Sally Phillips and Jonathan Keeble.(R)
| 16:30Texts and music on the theme of alchemy. Readers: Sian Phillips and Donald Sumpter.(R)
| 16:00Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests in all styles.
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| 17:00 | | | | 17:45Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform music by Chopin, Schumann, Wolf and Mozart.
| 17:45Radio 3 New Generation Artists in music by Tosti, Bozza, Vaughan Williams, Bowen and Bach.
| 17:00Julian Joseph meets producer/arranger Quincy Jones at the 2016 Montreux Jazz Festival.(R)
| 17:00The mystery, magic and music associated with bells. 17:30Texts and music on the theme of wine, with readings by Tamsin Greig and Tom Hollander.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Why Prokofiev chose to return to the USSR at the height of Stalin's Great Terror.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod focuses on the genesis of Prokofiev's ballet masterpiece Romeo and Juliet.
| 18:303/5Focusing on Prokofiev's first struggles with the brutal realities of state criticism.
| | | 18:00Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
| 18:45David Attenborough recalls collecting music from around the world, and listens once again.
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| 19:00 | 19:30BBC National Chorus of Wales with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra in Handel's Messiah.
| 19:30Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Boulez's Eclat and Mahler's Symphony No 7(R)
| 19:30Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Julian Anderson, Dvorak and Brahms.(R)
| 19:004/5Donald Macleod tells the troubled story of Prokofiev's operatic masterpiece War and Peace.
| 19:005/5Prokofiev's decline and death after his music was denounced by the state in the late 1940s
| | 19:30The John Wilson Orchestra celebrates the music of George and Ira Gershwin.
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| 20:00 | | | | 20:00The BBC Concert Orchestra celebrates Shakespeare-inspired music from the stage and screen.
| 20:00From the Barbican in London, an evening of music and comedy with humorist David Sedaris.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:15Innovative adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's haunting classic aviation Christmas tale.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to conductor Daniele Gatti.(R) 22:451/5John Wyatt on the fragility of new life and working on a neonatal ward at Christmas.
| 22:00Alain Finkielkraut and Karim Miske talk to Philip Dodd about French identity. 22:452/5Space scientist Monica Grady reflects on the symbolic power of the Star of Bethlehem.
| 22:00Rana Mitter and guests debate the meaning of patriotism beyond the west. 22:453/5What Jesus and Mary represent to Muslims beyond the story of the Incarnation.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy explores the history and future of the Union Jack. 22:454/5Theologian Robert Beckford reflects on the magi as a symbol of cultural inclusion.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents a Christmas edition of the word cabaret in front of an audience. 22:455/5The resonance of the Feast of the Holy Innocents for Christians in the Middle East.
| 22:004/5From the 2016 Huddersfield Festival, music from Hillborg, Reiter and Wertmueller.
| 22:00Shakespeare's pastoral comedy of love, lust, cross-dressing and mistaken identity.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch presents saxophonist Ellery Eskelin in concert.
| 23:00Cult avant-folk troubadour Richard Dawson is the guest presenter in a special edition.
| 23:00Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings is the guest presenter in a special edition.
| 23:00Irish composer and vocal contortionist Jennifer Walshe is the guest presenter.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents a selection of highlights from the 2016 Womad festival.
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