Daily from 7.00pm.
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Celebrating the string quartet through 50 years of BBC archive. Ensembles including the Amadeus, Chilingirian, Borodin and Kronos quartets perform in myriad styles and settings. Show more
Opera North and Phoenix Dance Theatre power an epic, heart-rending journey of the soul. A contemporary dance staging of Mozart’s great choral lament, choreographed by Dane Hurst. Show more
Historian Amanda Vickery and broadcaster Tom Service unearth the fascinating story of the lifelong friendship between composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. Show more
Danielle de Niese explores the lives and works of five female composers who were famous in their lifetimes, but whose work was then forgotten. Show more
Performance artist Marina Abramovic invites Alan Yentob into her home, opens her archive, travels to her birthplace in Belgrade and talks about turning her life into art. Show more
The Shock of the New
Episode 5: The Threshold of Liberty
59 minutes
on BBC Four HDAvailable for years
Robert Hughes's classic series about art in the twentieth century. Hughes examines the surrealists and their attempts to make art without restrictions. Show more
A look at the artists who made visual art from the crags and vistas of their internal world - the Expressionists, including Van Gogh, De Kooning and Pollock. Show more
Celebrating the string quartet through 50 years of BBC archive. Ensembles including the Amadeus, Chilingirian, Borodin and Kronos quartets perform in myriad styles and settings. Show more
Historian Amanda Vickery and broadcaster Tom Service unearth the fascinating story of the lifelong friendship between composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. Show more
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
