| 00:00 | 00:00Meditation, Monteverdi and how music moves. 00:30A night of eclectic music spanning 600 years from across Europe and the USA.
| 00:30International Prize Winner, cellist Andrei Ionita, in recital.
| 00:30Music from Finland's 2018 Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival. Presented by John Shea.
| 00:30Italian music from the Renaissance and Mahler's joyful declaration of love, Symphony No 5.
| 00:30A rare outing for Frank Martin's dramatic telling of the Nativity. John Shea presents.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith plays a New Orleans immortal: Jelly Roll Morton
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00An eclectic night leads to a morning of First Snow and Winter Festivals. With John Shea.
| 01:00Rachmaninov Suites played by Nikolai Lugansky and Vadim Rudenko. Catriona Young presents.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, including our musical Advent Calendar.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, including our musical Advent Calendar.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, including our musical Advent Calendar.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, including our musical Advent Calendar.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny announces the winner of this year’s Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Elizabeth Alker presents the breakfast show, including our musical Advent Calendar.
| 07:00Elizabeth Alker presents the breakfast show, including our musical Advent Calendar.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music
| 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music
| 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music
| 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music
| 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
| 09:00Building a Library on Vivaldi's Gloria RV589.
| 09:00Sarah Walker with a broad range of music, including her Sunday Escape.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Donald Macleod explores Rimsky-Korsakov’s relationship with the sea.
| 12:00Donald Macleod explores the idea of the exotic in Rimsky-Korsakov’s works
| 12:00Donald Macleod examines Rimsky’s dual role as establishment stalwart and revolutionary
| 12:00Donald Macleod explores Rimsky-Korsakov’s beliefs.
| 12:00Donald Macleod explores Rimsky-Korsakov’s legacy
| 12:15Kate Molleson visits the Fens to explore some of the music-making going at Christmas
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is impressionist Jan Ravens.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Ensemble Zefiro performs Mozart's Gran Partita Serenade
| 13:00Recorded at Perth Concert Hall, young string quartets perform major French works.
| 13:00The Navarra Quartet performs Faure's String Quartet in E minor, Op 121.
| 13:00The third of four recitals from Perth Concert Hall featuring French works at their core.
| 13:00Still in their early twenties, the Arod quartet perform Schumann and a recent commission.
| 13:00Hear a leading musician open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.
| 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Ensemble Zefiro performs Mozart's Gran Partita Serenade(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00The Radio 3 Carol Competition live final and Haydn and Vaughan Williams' London symphonies
| 14:00A concert performance of Act 1 of Wagner's Die Walkure, plus Mozart, Britten and Bartok.
| 14:00Jazzy, energetic works by Bernstein, Copland and Malcolm Arnold
| 14:00A rare chance to hear one of Salieri's finest and sparkliest operas.
| 14:00Gershwin and Messiaen recorded at the BBC Proms, plus Elgar and Sibelius
| | 14:05The inaugural Young Ensemble Competition from the London Exhibition of Early Music
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| 16:00 | | | 16:30New Generation Artists: The Arod Quartet play Mendelssohn's Four Pieces for String Quartet
| | | 16:00Jazz records from across the genre, as requested by Radio 3 listeners, with Alyn Shipton.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of irresistible music for voices
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| 17:00 | 17:00Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00With live music from The Kingdom Choir, Quatuor Arod and Jackie Oates
| 17:00A party feel to the last J to Z of the year with swing maestros Kansas Smitty and friends.
| 17:00The mystery, magic and music associated with bells. 17:30A smorgasbord of literary and musical feasts from Jonathan Swift to Nora Ephron.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:30Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, starring Eva-Maria Westbroek and Jonas Kaufmann.
| 18:45The magical story of the tree that sits at the heart of Christmas Day.
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| 19:00 | 19:00In Tune's specially curated playlist, this week featuring festive music with a twist. 19:30Kevin Puts' dramatic opera about the 1914 Christmas truce, performed by Opera North.
| 19:00In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises. 19:30Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Bartok, Szymanowski, Stravinsky, Bernstein and Golijov.
| 19:00Seasonal sounds from friends old and new 19:30Xian Zhang takes the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to perform in Beijing.
| 19:00In Tune's playlist: chill to Purcell’s Cold Song, Rutter’s Icicles and Manu Delago’s hang. 19:30Alpesh Chauhan and the BBC SSO perform Prokofiev, Grieg and Sibelius.
| 19:00In Tune's specially curated playlist: a seasonal mix of festive favourites and surprises. 19:30John Rutter and Bob Chilcott conduct Christmas carols with the BBC Singers at Saffron Hall
| | 19:30Drama exploring the mythic world of selkie and seal stories. Stars Stephen Dillane.
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| 20:00 | | | | | | | 20:45BBC Singers perform contemporary Christmas carols, conducted by Peter Foggitt.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30On a journey to the Moon, astronauts reflect on creation, God and our place in the cosmos.
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| 22:00 | 22:00A new book for classical music lovers.(R) 22:45Novelist Naomi Booth is drawn to the fiery energy of Allendale’s New Year festivities.
| 22:00Peter Wohlleben Emanuele Coccia Marion Sidebottom Luke Turner 22:45Poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett sets out to Hunt the Earl of Rone in Devon,
| 22:00Bobby Seagull and Irving Finkel join Shahidha Bari to look at competitiveness and games. 22:45Writer David Barnes is immersed in history and myth at Lewes Bonfire.
| 22:00An ecological fable about a perfect society? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic. 22:45Writer Laura Joyce follows Jack Valentine down the streets of Norwich.
| 22:00Song and storytelling with Simon Armitage, Joanne Harris and Owen Roberts 22:45Poet Lila Matsumoto visits Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire and the ancient Horn Dance.
| 22:00Simon Armitage's re-imagining of the classic fairy tale with music by Matthew Kaner
| 22:00Peter Phillips celebrates the wonder of the choral music of Palestrina and Gesualdo.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Paul Dunmall’s Sun Ship Quartet plus Alan Skidmore
| 23:00Nick Luscombe reveals 2018's best albums as chosen by the Late Junction team
| 23:00Nick Luscombe shows some appreciation for the other releases we loved from 2018.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe presents a mixtape from apocalyptic electronic artist Puce Mary
| 23:00Highlights from the 2018 WOMAD Festival with Lopa Kothari
| | 23:00Schubert's bleak winter journey sung by Ashley Riches with Joseph Middleton.
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