| 00:00 | 00:00Guest presenter Jules Buckley mixes a classical playlist for musician Marie Davidson. 00:30The Pavel Haas Quartet and La Cetra Baroque Orchestra. Presented by Catriona Young.
| 00:30A festive evening in 2019 with new and old Norwegian music. Catriona Young presents.
| 00:30Soprano Franziska Heinzen and pianist Benjamin Mead perform Hommage à Rilke.
| 00:30From the Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest, the Romanian Royal Camerata. With Catriona Young.
| 00:30Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
| | 00:00Corey Mwamba presents music that brings light in times of darkness.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00The Pavel Haas Quartet and La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Basle. With Catriona Young.
| 01:00The Bern Chamber Orchestra perform Debussy, Smetana, Mahler and Shostakovich.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, including shortlisted entries from the Carol Competition.
| 06:30Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, including shortlisted entries from the Carol Competition.
| 06:30Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, including shortlisted entries from the Carol Competition.
| 06:30Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, including shortlisted entries from the Carol Competition.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny announces the winner of the Carol Competition.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
| 07:00Elizabeth Alker presents Breakfast with Sounds of the Earth and seasonal music.
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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.
| 09:00Gillian Moore chooses her favourite recording of Mahler's First Symphony.
| 09:00Christmas music from EBU members in Europe and beyond: Iceland, Denmark and Canada.
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| 11:00 | | | | | | 11:45A book on Arvo Pärt. Luminosity in music. Beethoven's curtailed celebrations.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod introduces personal highlights from his year-long celebration of Beethoven.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod and guests consider Beethoven's boundary-pushing compositional process.
| 12:003/5More highlights from a year of programmes celebrating 250 years since Beethoven's birth.
| 12:004/5Highlights from this year's focus on Beethoven looking at the world the composer lived in.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod concludes his year-long focus on Beethoven with a selection of highlights.
| 12:30Jess Gillam and composer Eric Whitacre share their favourite Christmas music.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley’s guest is Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, a recital by Jack Liebeck and Katya Apekisheva.
| 13:00Nicola Heywood Thomas presents a live concert of Schubert performed by Llŷr Williams
| 13:00Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schubert Plus performed by Sir Bryn Terfel and Jâms Coleman
| 13:00Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schubert Plus, performed by harpist Catrin Finch.
| 13:00Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schubert Plus, performed by the Gould Piano Trio.
| 13:00Hear a leading musician open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.
| 13:00Christmas Music from EBU members across Europe and the world, including Finland and Spain.
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| 14:00 | 14:00The BBC Concert Orchestra performs Britten's cantata Saint Nicolas.
| 14:00Highlights from recent recordings made by the BBC's Orchestras and Singers.
| 14:00A selection of entries from this year's Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition.
| 14:00The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah.
| 14:00BBC NOW perform a concert of English music. Plus, Bartok from Ulster.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30Live from Hereford Cathedral.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet on film music.
| 15:00Live from Hereford Cathedral.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Early Music festivals from Europe.
| | 16:30Elisabeth Brauss plays a selection of Schubert impromptus.
| | 16:30Tom Service investigates what happens when musical rhythm is loosened by swing or rubato.
| 16:00Kathryn Tickell with a specially recorded session by Sam Amidon.
| 16:00Andrew McGregor is our guide for the rest of this day of Christmas Around Europe.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Sean Rafferty with music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty with music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty with music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty with music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
| 17:00In Tune celebrates Christmas, live from the BBC Radio Theatre.
| 17:00Standout albums, memorable session tracks and Mary Halvorson’s inspirations.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:30A performance of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, recorded at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
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| 19:00 | 19:00In Tune's curated playlist, including music by Richter, Lauridsen, Chopin and Bach. 19:30Christoph Eschenbach conducts Dvorak's Stabat Mater.
| 19:00In Tune's specially curated playlist: a sparkling mix of music shining brightly in winter. 19:30Daniele Rustioni conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony.
| 19:00A sparkling mix of music shining brightly in winter. 19:30The Gesualdo Six, directed by Owain Park, perform a concert of seasonal music
| 19:00Beethoven, live from Bonn. The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
| 19:00In Tune's specially curated playlist: a sparkling mix of music shining brightly in winter. 19:30A Choral Christmas with the BBC Singers, Jess Gillam, Katie Melua and Bob Chilcott.
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30A call to confront the spiritual questions of our time.
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| 22:00 | 22:00The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters 22:4511/20Paris-based Kate Stables muses on being a twin and how starting over can bring strength.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy listens out for echoes of Beethoven in Hegel 22:4512/20Brisbane-based Tenzin Choegyal powerfully recalls his Tibetan homeland in song.
| 22:00From paintings and folk tales to Brian Cox on the stars and Susan Greaney on Stonehenge. 22:4513/20From her home in Edinburgh, Lizabett Russo reflects on her roots in Romania.
| 22:00Tracing the sensual and radical Marlene Dietrich, from Europe to Hollywood. 22:4514/20Falle Nioke plays the music of his native Guinea from his current home in Margate.
| 22:00The Christmas Verb, with Floella Benjamin, John Cooper Clarke and Susie Dent. 22:4515/20Oregon-born, Galway-based Peter Broderick sings in praise of the blackberry.
| 22:00Elaine Mitchener curates and presents two Christmas editions of the New Music Show.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Night Tracks lights the candles and looks to the dancing flames.
| 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. 23:30Elizabeth Alker explores Berlin's music scene.
| 23:00Jennifer Lucy Allan presents our albums of the year and a mixtape by clipping.
| | 23:003/3Singer Nora Fischer celebrates the huge variety of sounds the human larynx can produce.
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