Rob Cowan presents a refreshing choice of music. Show more
With James Jolly. Vaughan Williams: 3 Shakespeare Songs. Arne: Favourite Concerto No 2. Faure: Piano Quartet No 1. Mackenzie: Benedictus, Op 37. Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's music for stage and screen, focusing on Soviet realism, frothy comedy and a collaboration with the film maker Sergei Eisenstein. Show more
A concert by pianist Tom Poster. Mozart: Piano Sonata, K282. Bartok: Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs. Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie. Plus Schumann/Liszt and Stravinsky. Show more
From Manchester, three BBC New Generation Artists and the BBC Philharmonic under Richard Davis in Falla, Weinberg and Mozart. Plus the BBC CO in Boccherini, Grieg and German. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. Acoustic group Spiro perform ahead of a concert at St George's Bristol and the Feinstein Ensemble play Bach before a concert at the Southbank Centre. Show more
Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vanska perform works by Sibelius: Karelia Suite and Kullervo. With Paivi Nisula (soprano) and Hannu Niemela (baritone). Show more
Night Waves
John Simpson, Jack Fuller/Angels/Childhood/No One Knows about Persian Cats
45 minutes
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Anne McElvoy talks to the BBC's John Simpson and ex-Chicago Tribune editor Jack Fuller. Plus angels in fiction, great thinkers on childhood and a film about modern culture in Iran. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's music for stage and screen, focusing on Soviet realism, frothy comedy and a collaboration with the film maker Sergei Eisenstein. Show more
London-based writer Kamila Shamsie explores her city of birth. She escapes the hot, steamy bustle of the city centre and heads like hundreds do to the nearby beaches. Show more
Verity Sharp's selection includes panpipes from the Solomon Islands, Simon Limbrick's Dot Machines, a Celtic journey dance and a Renaissance pavan by Tobias Hume. Show more
John Shea presents music by Mussorgsky, Dvorak, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, Marais, Zelenka, Rosenmuller, Wanski, Rameau, Rheinberger, Arnic, Lassus and Gabrieli. Show more
