Sara Mohr-Pietsch 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 Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Rossini Overtures; Artist of the Week: Jordi Savall; CD Review Recommendation: Handel: Eight Great Keyboard Suites, HWV426-33. Show more

Donald Macleod examines some of the earliest surviving stories from Bach's youth, revealing the character traits that would shape his future career. Show more

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, Fiona Talkington introduces Vilde Frang (violin) and Michail Lifits (piano) performing music by Mendelssohn, Lutoslawski and Brahms. Show more

Louise Fryer presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers in Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week: Glinka, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Standford and Bach. Show more

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With live music from pianist Florian Uhlig, conversation and music from cellist Richard Tunnicliffe, jazz pianist Alexander Hawkins and Baroque poetry. Show more

Donald Macleod examines some of the earliest surviving stories from Bach's youth, revealing the character traits that would shape his future career. Show more

As part of Baroque Spring and the Bristol Baroque Festival, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and John Butt perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 4 and Cantata No 161. Show more

Tom Service is joined by the director of the Barbican Nicholas Kenyon, and scholar and conductor John Butt to discuss the history of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Show more

Live from St George's, Bristol, John Butt directs the OAE, Choir and soloists. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D; Cantata No 9 (Es ist das Heil uns kommen her). Show more

For 2012's Free Thinking, Anne McElvoy chairs a debate entitled Hell is Other People, with broadcaster Katie Adie, psychologist Oliver James and journalist David Aaronovitch. Show more

Alexandra Harris, author of Romantic Moderns and a Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, discusses the legacy of Baroque style in 20th-century English design. Show more

As part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring season, Jez Nelson presents a new commission from pianist Alexander Hawkins and his improvising nonet, featuring American trumpeter Peter Evans. Show more

For Baroque Spring, John Shea presents a recording from the BBC Proms Chamber Music season 2012, featuring Bach's The Art of Fugue arranged for ensemble by Mahan Esfahani. Show more