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'Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch, who unwraps an hour of festive music Yule love.

Kuhmo Chamber Music recreate Christmas 1887 when Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Grieg dined together. Their chamber music is played together with arrangements of Finnish Christmas carols.

Hannah French presents a Christmas Day edition of Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to [email protected].

Bring some sparkle to your festive celebrations by joining Petroc Trelawny live on Christmas Day for uplifting seasonal music, studio guests and listener requests.

A service of carols, hymns and readings live from the candlelit Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

BBC Proms 2024: Eric Whitacre conducts the world premiere of Eternity in an Hour with the BBC Singers, Christopher Glynn, Nick Lisher and 12 Ensemble.

3/5. Donald Macleod learns how, in Latvia, traditional Christian celebrations sit alongside ancient pagan customs and folk music honouring 'Ziemassvetki' or Winter Solstice.

Dominic West and Ruth Bradley with readings exploring the challenging aspects of Christmas: useless presents, tedious board games, relentless relatives, and awful office parties.

BBC Proms 2024: Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma perform Brahms's Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87 and Beethoven's 'Archduke' Trio, Op. 97.

BBC Proms 2024: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jaime Martín perform Bacewicz and Prokofiev. Nemanja Radulovic is soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

Hannah Peel presents a sparkling and immersive soundtrack for Christmas Day, with an eclectic mix of music, from traditional folk to carols, and relaxing classics and electronics.

Award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch settles in with jazz on Christmas Day.

Walton's Viola Concerto and Elgar's First Symphony performed with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Penny Gore presents.

Hannah French presents a Boxing Day edition of Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to [email protected].

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

Elizabeth Alker with an afternoon of performances for Boxing Day - occasional music from Bach, Faure and Prokofiev on childhood, family time with the Wagners, plus film favourites.

4/5. Donald Macleod explores the theme of 'light' with composer, Eriks Esenvalds and watches a winter sunset over the Daugava river with singer and folklorist, Ilona Dzerve.

Specially recorded performances of music by Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Messiaen from Radio 3's current New Generation Artists - stars of the future.

Maria Callas is the inspiration for a programme including readings from Joyce, Austen, Langston Hughes and MR James with music by Puccini, Debussy and Verdi.

BBC Proms 2024: the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Antonello Manacorda conducting in symphonies by Mozart, Louise Farrenc and Beethoven - his 'Eroica'.

Norman Lebrecht in conversation with British-Polish opera and theatre director Sir David Pountney.

Hannah Peel presents an immersive soundtrack for Boxing Day, with an eclectic mix of traditional folk and new music, relaxing classics and electronics, plus wintery ice sounds.

'Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch, who spins new music from the Canadian group BADBADNOTGOOD.

Violinist Tobias Feldmann, cellist Harriet Krijgh and pianist Lauma Skride perform trios by Beethoven, Smetana and Schubert at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg in Austria.

Hannah French presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem. Email your requests to [email protected].

Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Elizabeth Alker puts childhood at the heart of today's programme with a performance of Engelbert Humperdinck's magical operatic evocation of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.

5/5. Donald Macleod discovers how singing has helped sustain Latvia's population in the face of oppression, and how Latvian composers have been inspired by messages of hope at Christmas.

Music by Elgar, Dvorak and Ginastera from violinist Hana Chang, the Kleio Quartet and tenor Santiago Sanchez - stars of the future - in their first recordings at the BBC.

Actors Amanda Hale and Oliver Alvin-Wilson read a selection of poetry and prose wrapped in a varied selection of music exploring feelings and ideas about the nature of 'warmth'.

BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: Dinis Sousa conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia in music by Tailleferre, Sibelius & Dvorak.

Writer and broadcaster Norman Lebrecht talks to the charismatic Lithuanian conductor, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla.

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from experimental noise duo Pollution Opera, the new project of sound artists, vocalists and disruptors Nadah el Shazly and Elvin Brandhi.

Soweto Kinch presents a look back at some of the great names in jazz that have passed away in 2024.