Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season with the Breakfast Forty-Eight and the Musical Map of Britain. Show more

With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library. Handel: Keyboard Suites, HWV426-33; New chamber music recordings; Disc of the Week: Couperin: Trois Lecons de Tenebres.

Simon Russell Beale celebrates the 850th anniversary of Notre Dame, Paris, by exploring the tension between the sacred and secular as expressed in the music produced by this city. Show more

As part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring season, Catherine Bott explores the development of the Baroque music of eastern Europe. Show more

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, a concert by the St Lawrence String Quartet. Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op 71 No 2. Beethoven: String Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3 (Razumovsky). Show more

Actor and director Philip Franks selects music written for the theatre. Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Elgar, and Duke Ellington's arrangement of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suites. Show more

An historic performance of Verdi's La Forza del Destino given at the Met in 1977 with Leontyne Price, Placido Domingo, Rosalind Elias and Cornell MacNeil. James Levine conducts. Show more

Drama by Clare Dwyer Hogg. A man hides in Donegal, waiting for the death he knows is inevitable. All he has for company are ghostly regrets - until his wife arrives. Show more

Alyn Shipton introduces a selection of listeners' requests, including Bill Holman. Show more

As part of Baroque Spring, works by Alexander Goehr, Kevin Volans, Poul Ruders, Gerald Barry. They talk to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about the inspiration they have taken from the Baroque. Show more

Geoffrey Smith picks highlights from the post-Count Basie career in the 1940s and 50s of saxophonist Lester Young, hailed as 'the president of all the tenors'. Show more

John Shea presents a concert of Chopin and Liszt from pianist Lukas Geniusas given at the 66th International Chopin Festival. Show more