Suzy Klein presents a refreshing choice of music. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Berlioz's Te Deum; Recent releases including Gennady Rozhdestvensky; Disc of the Week: Strauss' Rosenkavalier-Suite; Ein Heldenleben.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Featuring a new version of Prokofiev's opera The Gambler, due to open at the Royal Opera House, and a look at a new biography of Sibelius. Show more
Lucie Skeaping profiles the life and work of scholar and musicologist Dimitrie Cantemir, who in 1710 compiled the Book of the Science of Music, charting 17th century Ottoman music. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, London. Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin performs two Haydn sonatas, Liszt's Harmonies du soir, from Transcendental Studies and Chopin's Ballade No 4 in F minor. Show more
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Alyn Shipton is joined by pianist Gwilym Simcock to review the best albums of bassist Jaco Pastorius, master of the fretless electric bass and a key figure in jazz-rock fusion. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
Placido Domingo performs the title role in Verdi's compelling tale of 14th-century Genoese power-politics, illegitimacy and forbidden love. Show more
Alan Harris's dark fantasy about a man who has two lives. Terry is a clerk in a Cardiff law firm but also a warrior in an online game. But are his lives starting to converge? Show more
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Jac Van Steen plays David Sawer's Byrnan Wood; Arlene Sierra's Aquilo; Huw Watkins' Piano Concerto and Christian Jost's CocoonSymphonie. Show more
Lucie Skeaping travels to Cremona in Italy to explore the place where the Amati, Guarneri and Stradivari families gave birth to a new instrument - the violin. Show more
John Shea presents music by Mozart, Diepenbrock, Roussel, Haydn, Fasch, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Rautavaara, Kirnberger, Wagner, Telemann, Dvorak, Kuula, CPE Bach, M Gorecki Jr. Show more
