| 00:00 | 00:30An Advent concert performed by the Swedish Radio Chorus. With Catriona Young.
| 00:30Brass Consort Köln with music by Vivaldi, Grieg and Tchaikovsky. Catriona Young presents.
| 00:30A water-themed concert from Finland presented by Catriona Young.
| 00:30A celebration of one of the great Czech, and BBC, conductors, Jiří Bělohlávek
| 00:30Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan perform sonatas by Mozart, Prokofiev and Franck.
| | 00:00Geoffrey invites you to party with saxophonist-singer Louis Jordan
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Music from the 2016 Wratislavia Cantans Festival with works by Shostakovich and Gorecki.
| 01:00Works by JS Bach and his sons. Catriona Young presents.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents breakfast, with the last of this year's musical Advent Calendar.
| 06:30Christmas Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny and the winner of Radio 3's Carol Competition.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents a Boxing Day edition of Radio 3's classical Breakfast show.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including the Friday poem.
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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 | 09:00Refresh 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.
| 09:00The best classical releases and Building a Library on Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2.
| 09:00Sarah Walker with a broad range of music, including her Sunday Escape.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Dipping a toe into the fertile archival territory of Heinrich Schutz’s writings.
| 12:00Celebrating Yuletide, Heinrich Schutz-style
| 12:00We are in Venice, where Heinrich Schutz studies with Gabrieli and hobnobs with Monteverdi.
| 12:00Heinrich Schutz is swept up in the convulsions of the Thirty Years’ War
| 12:00Heinrich Schutz attempts to retire – and eventually bids farewell with his Schwanengesang
| 12:15Cerys Matthews explores the influence of the 150 Psalms on musicians and composers.
| 12:00His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales discusses his musical choices with Michael Berkeley
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| 13:00 | 13:00Highlights from the Oxford Lieder Festival 2018 including Kai Ruutel and Camilla Tilling.
| 13:00Sean Rafferty visits the home of Sir Bryn Terfel.
| 13:00Highlights from the Oxford Lieder Festival 2018 including Kai Ruutel and Camilla Tilling.
| 13:00Highlights from the Oxford Lieder Festival 2018, a grand tour of Europe in song.
| 13:00Highlights from the Oxford Lieder Festival 2018, a grand tour of Europe in song.
| 13:00The multi-talented multi-instrumentalist takes us inside some of his favourite music.
| 13:00From Wigmore Hall, Augustin Hadelich and Charles Owen play Brahms and John Adams.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00The Mahler Chamber Orchestra performs Bartok and Martinů at the 2018 Lucerne Festival.
| 14:00Christmas carols and readings from the candlelit chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
| 14:00Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in music by Ravel.
| 14:00Gounod's Faust starring Piotr Beczala, Luca Pisaroni and Marina Rebeka.
| 14:00Performances of music by Haydn, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Schumann, Rachmaninov and Bernstein
| | 14:00Hannah French explores the lives and music of three 18th-century Catalonian brothers.
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| 15:00 | | 15:45Two stories by Michael Bond read by Simon Russell Beale with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
| 15:30From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, on the Feast of St Stephen.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet with film music for the Victorian detective
| 15:00From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, on the Feast of St Stephen.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Horatio Clare takes a sound walk through a German forest in the tradition of the Wanderer.
| | 16:30Actors Claire Benedict and Robert Lindsay read poems and prose about all things canine.
| | | 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 | | 17:00Julian Rhind-Tutt and Lia Williams in an exploration from Roman times to the present day.
| 17:45New Generation Artists perform Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, a Musical Zoo and Piazzolla.
| 17:00Adjoa Andoh and Rory Kinnear with poetry and music exploring human sins.
| 17:00An exploration of different worlds in text and music including Coleridge, Chopin and Satie
| 17:004/4Götterdämmerung, the last of the four operas of Wagner's Ring cycle.
| 17:00Think The Nutcracker is a super-saccharine classic for the feelgood season? Think again. 17:30Rebellion and rule breaking in music and readings by Samuel West and Natalie Simpson.
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| 18:00 | | 18:15New Generation Artists perform Schubert's Trout Quintet and music by Schumann and Strauss.
| 18:45John Wilson conducts the acclaimed English National Opera production at the Coliseum.
| 18:15Ashley Riches sings Finzi's Hardy setting, Earth and Air and Rain
| 18:15Andrei Ionita gives the first broadcast performance of Kashperova's Cello Sonata No 1.
| | 18:45The story behind the writing of Victor Hugo's book is one of adultery, intrigue and exile.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ with the BBC SO, Singers, Chorus and soloists.
| 19:30John Wilson Orchestra performs Bernstein's West Side Story at the Royal Albert Hall
| | 19:30Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra from the Royal Albert Hall
| 19:30The Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Kirill Petrenko, performs Beethoven and Strauss.
| | 19:30The Swedish Chamber Orchestra play three of JS Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
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| 21:00 | | 21:30Music for reflection and inner peace - a Schubert impromptu and Golijov's Tenebrae
| | | 21:30The Calidore Quartet plays Mendelssohn's String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80.
| | 21:58The Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard perform Bach at the Royal Albert Hall.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Peter Phillips delves into the lives and music of Josquin des Prez and Heinrich Isaac.
| 22:00Peter Phillips shares his love for the music of Orlando Lassus and Tomas Luis de Victoria.
| 22:00Peter Phillips shares his love of the choral music of Thomas Tallis and Nicolas Gombert.
| 22:00Peter Phillips delves into the music of Byrd, Cornysh and the Eton Choirbook.
| 22:00Peter Phillips shares his passion for the music of Thomas Tomkins and Manuel Cardoso.
| 22:00Tom Service presents music by Malin Bang and Marco Stroppa.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Dee Byrne’s Entropi in concert.
| 23:00A Christmas week of Late Junction specials begins.
| 23:00Two comedians share their passions for left-field music.
| 23:00A mixtape from recorder player and violinist Laura Cannell
| 23:00Sir David Attenborough's Mixtape plus concert sets from WOMEX 2018 with Lopa Kothari
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