Martin Handley presents music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits.
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead; Disc of the Week: Bach's Magnificat, BWV243.
Tom Service talks to composers writing new works for a Mahler symphony cycle in Manchester and explores the operatic world of Hans Werner Henze. Show more
Lucie Skeaping tours round the most famous seat of early music training in the world, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, to find out about its work, its aims and its legacy. Show more
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano) perform sonatas by Prokofiev and Shostakovich from Wigmore Hall, London. Show more
Lucy Duran travels to the island of Madagascar and presents songs accompanying exhumation and reburial ceremonies, the ancestral zither, and also visits a Spirit House. Show more
Alyn Shipton and drum expert Richard Pite pick highlights of percussionist Big Sid Catlett's recordings, including work with Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk. Show more
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna in Bizet's tale of gypsies, love, jealousy and murder in Seville. Show more
Pieces from Klaas de Vries, Frederic Rzewski and Donnacha Dennehy are performed by pianist Joanna MacGregor, featuring the Ulster and RTE National Symphony orchestras. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present highlights from the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, including Aguiar, Tinoco, Saunders and Nunes. Show more
Catherine Bott talks to Edward Wickham about the L'homme arme melody, used in many 15th and 16th century mass settings. Featuring examples by Busnois, Josquin and Palestrina. Show more
Susan Sharpe presents music by Varese, Rachmaninov, Copland, Mendelssohn, Elgar, Viotti, Parac, Sor, Hidas, Sibelius, Mozart, Rangstrom, Debussy, Brahms, Boieldieu and Beethoven. Show more
