Martin Handley presents a refreshing choice of music. Show more
Farewells: In his last Sunday morning programme, Iain Burnside contemplates musical farewells, introducing Beethoven, Wagner and Julie Andrews. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is writer Joanne Harris, author of the novel Chocolat. Her choices include In the Hall of the Mountain King, plus Smetana, Schubert, Mahler and Rachmaninov. Show more
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the final of the 2010 London Handel Festival Singing Competition, with the London Handel Orchestra directed by Laurence Cummings. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents requests, including a piano concerto by part of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Gregorian moods by Durufle and Respighi, and David Oistrakh and Francoise Pollet. Show more
Choral Vespers for the Feast of St Anselm, from the Church of the London Oratory. Show more
Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Concert Orchestra explore Darius Milhaud's pantomime Le boeuf sur le toit and Francis Poulenc's Les biches suite. Show more
Aled Jones explores the world of choral music for weddings and is joined by Nigel Short of St Bart's Church, David Guest of the Wedding Music Company and the Rev Richard Coles. Show more
Antony Sher stars in a play about the life of William Shakespeare. Business is going well, but the Bard urgently needs a collaborator for his latest play. Show more
Norman Lebrecht talks to Russian pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. He discusses his work for the KGB, his exile to the West and how arthritis has affected his piano playing. Show more
David Bamber and Gillian Bevan explore the defiance of rebellion in readings by WB Yeats, Maya Angelou and Philip Larkin; with music by Chopin, Bax, Copland and Leonard Cohen. Show more
Claire Martin talks to drummer, composer, producer and teacher Billy Cobham about his new CD, Palindrome. Plus drummer Martin Drew and his New Couriers in a specially recorded gig. Show more
Susan Sharpe with music by Spohr, Jersild, Schumann, Grainger, Arriaga, Chopin, Mozart, Hellendaal, Franck, Massenet, Weyse, Corelli, Reger, Dvorak, Strauss, Scherrer and Barnes. Show more
