| 00:00 | 00:30John Shea's selection includes a recital given by the Casals Quartet.
| 00:30For Baroque Spring, John Shea presents Bach's The Art of Fugue arranged by Mahan Esfahani.
| 00:30With John Shea. Includes Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Schubert's Symphony No 9.
| 00:30John Shea presents a performance of Mozart and Nielsen from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
| 00:30For Baroque Spring, Catriona Young presents a performance of Theile's St Matthew Passion.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith celebrates Coleman Hawkins, considered the father of the jazz tenor sax.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00For Baroque Spring on Radio 3, Catriona Young presents Buxtehude's Membra Jesu nostri.
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| 02:00 | | | | | | | 02:00For Radio 3's Baroque Spring season, John Shea presents Telemann's Der Tod Jesu.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Baroque Spring.
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| 09:00 | 09:00With Sarah Walker. CD Review Recommendation: Handel: 8 Great Keyboard Suites, HWV426-33.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Walton: Belshazzar's Feast.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Britten: Spring Symphony.
| 09:00With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Bach: Orchestral Suite No 4.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Includes Building a Library: Bach accompanied violin sonatas.
| 09:00Rob Cowan marks the end of a year of featuring Bach's sacred cantatas with No 31, BWV31.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod examines some of the earliest surviving stories from Bach's youth.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod follows the young Bach to his new job at the court of Weimar.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod on why Bach found joy and sadness after he became court conductor in Cothen
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod on Bach's move to Leipzig, where he set about transforming musical life.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod on Bach's last years, when his focus turned to his posthumous reputation.
| 12:15Tom Service explores the changes in the performance of Baroque music over 40 years.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is South African-born actress Janet Suzman.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Vilde Frang (violin) and Michail Lifits (piano) perform Mendelssohn, Lutoslaski and Brahms
| 13:001/4Wihan Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, K421. Dvorak: Quartet in F, Op 96.
| 13:002/4Live from LSO St Luke's, London, the LSO String Ensemble plays Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky.
| 13:003/4Nicholas Angelich (piano) in Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales. Plus Mussorgsky.
| 13:004/4Nash Ensemble Schubert's Octet in F for wind and strings, D803 at LSO St Luke's, London.
| 13:00Catherine Bott explores English, Spanish and French Baroque music for the spoken theatre.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping explores the Lutheran chorale in German Baroque music.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Louise Fryer with music by Glinka, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Standford and Bach
| 14:002/4Louise Fryer presents music by MacMillan, Gubaidulina, De Sabata, Calvisius and Prokofiev.
| 14:003/4Presented by Louise Fryer. With Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 1, plus Schein and Scriabin.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents Verdi's I masnadieri (The Bandits), an opera written for London.
| 14:004/4A selection of live and specially recorded music, with top chamber recitals and operas.
| 14:00Vilde Frang (violin) and Michail Lifits (piano) perform Mendelssohn, Lutoslaski and Brahms(R)
| 14:001/2Brecon Baroque performs music by Schmelzer, Biber and Corelli at Tredegar House in Wales. 14:40Katie Derham tours Tredegar House in Wales with Lars Tharp and the NT's Derw Thomas.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Portsmouth Cathedral during Holy Week, as part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring.
| | | 15:00Richard Sisson with music linked to spring, including Birtwistle, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.
| 15:002/2Brecon Baroque performs theatre music by Henry Purcell at Tredegar House in Wales.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Sean Rafferty with live music plus poetry for Baroque Spring read by Dominic West.
| 16:30With live music from pianist Jean-Marc Luisada, plus artist Pedro Reyes and John Coxon.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents a selection of live music and guests from the arts world.
| 16:30Suzy Klein with conductor Robin Ticciati, plus live recorder/harpsichord music.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty presents live music from pianist Joanna MacGregor, plus violinist Maya Magub
| 16:30Live from the Met in New York, Verdi's La Traviata with Diana Damrau and Placido Domingo.
| 16:00Live from Manchester Cathedral on Easter Day.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | | 17:00Greg Beardsell on the legacy of Carlo Gesualdo. Plus a tribute to conductor Eric Ericson.
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| 18:00 | 18:301/5Donald Macleod examines some of the earliest surviving stories from Bach's youth.
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod follows the young Bach to his new job at the court of Weimar.
| 18:303/5Donald Macleod on why Bach found joy and sadness after he became court conductor in Cothen
| 18:304/5Donald Macleod on Bach's move to Leipzig, where he set about transforming musical life.
| 18:305/5Donald Macleod on Bach's last years, when his focus turned to his posthumous reputation.
| | 18:30Texts and music on the theme of tears, with readings by Samantha Bond and Samuel Barnett.
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| 19:00 | 19:301/2The OAE and John Butt perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 4 and Cantata No 161.
| 19:301/2Early Opera Company in Handel operas excerpts including Ottone, Rodelinda and Alessandro.
| 19:30Harpischordist Mahan Esfahani performs Bach's Goldberg Variations at St George's, Bristol.
| 19:30Frank Martin's Oratorio Golgotha and James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross.
| 19:301/2BBC Singers in Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit; Jesu, meine Freude.
| 19:30For Baroque Spring, Alyn Shipton presents requests in which jazz meets Baroque music.
| 19:45Adaptation of Tennessee WIlliams's play, starring Liz White and Michael Malarkey.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:101/2Tom Service discusses the history of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. 20:302/2The OAE performs Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D; Cantata No 9.
| 20:153/3Sara Mohr-Pietsch and conductor Paul Goodwin answer your questions about Baroque music. 20:352/2Excerpts from Handel's Admeto, Siroe, Riccardo Primo, plus works by Porpora and Hasse.
| | | 20:15Stephen Johnson examines the sources of Bach's setting of the St Mark Passion. 20:352/2The BBC Singers and St James's Baroque perform Bach's St Mark Passion.
| 20:30Live from Wigmore Hall in London, pianist Igor Levit plays works by Schubert and Liszt.(R)
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:30The BBC Philharmonic in orchestral works by Joe Duddell, Gary Carpenter and David Horne.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Anne McElvoy chairs a debate entitled Hell is Other People at Free Thinking 2012.(R) 22:451/5Alexandra Harris discusses the legacy of Baroque style in 20th-century English design.
| 22:00Including James Wood, Michael Grigsby, Margaret Mountford on Pompeii, In the House. 22:452/5Paul Farley, poet and professor of creative writing, discusses 'baroque 'n' roll'.
| 22:00Author Mohsin Hamid talks to Samira Ahmed about his latest novel. 22:453/5Former architect Ed Hollis discusses 20th-century architecture's battle with the Baroque.
| 22:00Sir Nicholas Hytner, posthumanism, and the inner city gangs attempting peace negotiations. 22:454/5Mexican novelist Chloe Aridjis discusses the survival of Baroque in her country.
| 22:00Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's word cabaret, exploring Traveller and Romany writing. 22:455/5Tessa Hadley on Henry James's sentences and jokes. Is there such a thing as Baroque prose?
| 22:00Italian music from the Sonic Fusion Festival in Salford and the London Ear Festival.
| 22:00Lucy Duran visits Bolivia, listening to the panpipes of Lake Titicaca.
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| 23:00 | 23:00A new commission from pianist Alexander Hawkins, part of Baroque Spring on BBC Radio 3.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music by Rokia Traore and Kevin Ayers.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington with music from Kan Mikami and jazz trio Troyka.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music from Joni Mitchell, Grand General and Thomas Ades.
| 23:00Lopa Kothari presents music from around the world and a session by Meklit Hadero.
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