Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Bach Day in the Baroque Spring season with the Breakfast Forty-Eight and the Musical Map of Britain. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Telemann Wind Concertos; Michael Tilson Thomas; CD Review Building a Library: Bach: Sonatas for violin and continuo. Show more
Donald Macleod explores how Puccini's music came to be linked with the ideas of the new unified Italy, as well as how the opera Manon Lescaut made his name and fortune. Show more
Conductor John Eliot Gardiner is joined by leading soloists, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a celebration of the music of Bach. Show more
Stephen Johnson explores how Bach, a devout Lutheran, set about producing a Latin mass in the Catholic tradition, and unpacks some of the many musical clues to its meaning. Show more
Conductor John Eliot Gardiner is joined by leading soloists, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a nine-hour celebration of the music of Bach. Show more
Neurologist Oliver Sacks talks to Joan Bakewell about his beliefs, including hallucinatory states' role in the formation of religion, and his own need to create order from chaos. Show more
Jez Nelson presents music from improvising ensemble the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, featuring co-founders Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg. Show more
John Shea's selection includes the Pavel Haas Quartet performing two works by Dvorak. Show more