Petroc Trelawny presents music including piano works from Beethoven and Rachmaninov and some dances from Borodin and Stravinsky. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. A new Sviatoslav Richter release. Disc of the Week: Pergolesi's Saint Emidius Mass.
Tom Service explores the music of Carlo Gesualdo. Plus pianist Stephen Kovacevich on Schubert and Takemitsu, and Eliza Carthy on Folk Music and English identity. Show more
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of music written for Holy Saturday, including settings of Lamentations and Tenebrae Responsories by Palestrina, Lobo, Gesualdo and Morales.
Fiona Talkington introduces the Jerusalem String Quartet performing at London's Wigmore Hall. Mozart: String Quartet in D, K575. Ravel: String Quartet in F. Show more
Mark Tully surveys the career of Ravi Shankar, who celebrates his 90th birthday in 2010. Featuring an interview recorded with Shankar in 2000, as well as classic recordings. Show more
Archive interview in which trombonist Al Grey, who died in 2000, joins Alyn Shipton to select his key recordings with, among others, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Marco Armiliato conducts a performance of Verdi's spectacular opera Aida, set in the ancient Egypt of the pharaohs. Starring soprano Hui He. Show more
Charting a journey in sound, moving across the UK in a series of long, very slow and sometimes imperceptible fades from one location to another. Show more
Ivan Hewett interviews Viennese composer Kurt Schwertsik. The BBC Philharmonic perform Schwertsik's '...in keltischer Manier' and his Irdische Klang cycle. Show more
Until his untimely death in 2009, Rashied Ali was widely regarded as the doyen of free jazz drummers. Alyn Shipton picks his best recordings with the help of an archive interview. Show more
Susan Sharpe with music by Beethoven, Touchemoulin, Paderewski, Saint Saens, Veracini, Welffens, Wagner, Bach, Haydn, CPE Bach, Le Roux Obradovic, Brahms, Mozart, Zelenka, Avison. Show more
