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
CD Review
Baroque Spring Building a Library: Bach's Violin Sonatas
3 hours, 12 minutes on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Bach violin sonatas; Emil Gilels, Vaclav Neumann and Wolfgang Sawallisch; Disc of the Week: Mussorgsky and Prokofiev piano music.
Tom Service explores the changes in the performance of Baroque music over the last 40 years with Christopher Hogwood, Roger Norrington and Reinhard Goebel. Show more
Catherine Bott explores the world of English, Spanish and French Baroque music for the spoken theatre. Featuring music by Purcell, Arne, Lawes, Lully, Charpentier and others. 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
Richard Sisson presents an alternative view of music linked to spring, from Disney's Bambi to Harrison Birtwistle's Gawain, via Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn and Vivaldi. Show more
Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Verdi's La Traviata, with Diana Damrau (Violetta), Saimir Pirgu (Alfredo) and Placido Domingo (Germont). Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts. Show more
For Baroque Spring, Alyn Shipton presents requests in which jazz meets Baroque music. Including Benny Goodman, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Jacques Loussier and Respectable Groove. Show more
Igor Levit in a live recital at Wigmore Hall. Schubert/Liszt: Sei mir gegrusst. Schubert: 6 Moments Musicaux, D780. Liszt: Apres une lecture du Dante (Annees de pelerinage). Show more
Mark Heron conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Salford. Joe Duddell: Azalea Fragments. Gary Carpenter: Fred and Ginger. David Horne: Submergence. Show more
With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Italian music from Salford's Sonic Fusion Festival and London Ear Festival featuring flautist Roberto Fabbriciani and FLAME ensemble. Plus Sleeping Beauty. Show more
Geoffrey Smith celebrates the saxophonist known as the father of the jazz tenor, Coleman Hawkins, a musician who produced many important masterpieces over a 40-year career. Show more
For Radio 3's Baroque Spring season, John Shea presents a performance of Telemann's Der Tod Jesu. Show more