Rob Cowan presents music, news and the occasional surprise.
With Sarah Walker. Featuring Anon medieval: Chominciamento di gioia. Mozart: Violin Sonata in F, K547. Tchaikovsky: Suite No 3 in G, Op 55. Schubert: Quintet in C, D956. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Borodin's last works, including the Petite Suite for piano and his unfinished Third Symphony. Show more
String quartet Meta4 perform at Birmingham Town Hall. Szymanowski: String Quartet No 1 in C, Op 37. Haydn: String Quartet in B minor, Op 64 No. Show more
With Katie Derham. Elgar: Sea Pictures. Britten: Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes). Schubert: Fantasy in C. Leifs: Organ Concerto. Tveitt: Wedding Suite. Shostakovich: Symphony No 5. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With Opera North's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, plus conductor Susanna Malkki and pianist Artur Pizarro, who plays Ravel and Strauss. Show more
Presented by Catherine Bott. BBC Philharmonic under Yutaka Sato in Britten: 4 Sea Interludes and Passacaglia (Peter Grimes). Ravel: Piano concerto in D (soloist - Louis Lortie). Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the potency of the Dies Irae chant from its sacred origins in the 13th century to its secular use as a familiar motif in the 19th and 20th centuries. Show more
Presented by Catherine Bott. Concluding a concert from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, Yutaka Sado conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Show more
Ian McMillan with a live edition of his cabaret of the word from the BBC Radio Theatre, featuring a Chekhov-inspired performance by improvisational group The Factory. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Borodin's last works, including the Petite Suite for piano and his unfinished Third Symphony. Show more
Chinese writer and film-maker Xiaolu Guo pays tribute to all she has learned from Chekhov in his deeply humane depiction of peasant life in a bitter winter landscape. Show more
Mary Ann Kennedy presents music from the 2010 Late Night Sessions at the world's biggest winter music festival - Celtic Connections in Glasgow. Show more
Susan Sharpe presents music, including Schubert's Die schone Mullerin, plus Brahms, Liszt, Weber, Corelli, Sjogren, Marcello, Chopin, Hellendaal, Poulenc, Wolf, Faure, Enna, Bach. Show more
