Christmas Day Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, including the winner of the Breakfast Carol Competition and your musical requests and suggestions. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Christmas Day with Ian Skelly - Victorian Christmas Cards, Michael Morpurgo, Bach's Christmas Oratorio
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your Christmas morning with a great selection of classical music. Ian Skelly's guest is author Michael Morpurgo. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of German early Baroque master Heinrich Schutz, starting with a visit to the Striezelmarkt for a Christmas pastry and a glass of Gluhwein Show more
Sean Rafferty gets an insight into the life, work and influences of bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel at his home in south Wales. Show more
Recorded yesterday in the candlelit chapel of King's College, Cambridge in the centenary year of the festival. Christmas carols and hymns sung by the world-famous chapel choir. Show more
Two fun-filled stories written by Michael Bond - Paddington's First Concert and Paddington at St. Paul's – read by Simon Russell Beale with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Show more
With readings from Horace to Dickens performed by Julian Rhind-Tutt and Lia Williams, and music from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, Words and Music explores town and country. Show more
New Generation Artists
Schubert's Trout Quintet and Schumann's Fantasy Pieces
1 hour, 14 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Kate Molleson presents the first programme in an eight-part, early evening series celebrating the prodigious talents of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists. Show more
Proms 2018 Repeats
Prom 39 repeat: The John Wilson Orchestra performs Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.
1 hour, 59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
The John Wilson Orchestra plus students from ArtsEd and Mountview perform Bernstein's West Side Story with Mikaela Bennett as Maria and Ross Lekites as Tony. Show more
Music for reflection. Mariam Batsashvili plays a Schubert impromptu and the Calidore String Quartet performs Golijov's Tenebrae, inspired by a visit to Jerusalem. Show more
Peter Phillips celebrates the wonder of Renaissance choral music by exploring the lives and works of two very contrasting composers, Orlando Lassus and Tomas Luis de Victoria. Show more
Guest editor and presenter Stewart Lee takes over Late Junction for the week, and invites folk musician Richard Dawson to bring in some tracks. Show more
Catriona Young presents a water-themed concert from the 2018 Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival. Show more
