Rob Cowan presents a refreshing choice of music. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Brahms: Tragic Overture. Mozart: Die Zauberflote (excerpt). Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44. Wagner: Lohengrin (excerpt). Smyth: Overture (The Wreckers). Show more
Donald Macleod charts Barber's final years, troubled by alcoholism and creative blocks, and assesses the effect on the composer of one of the great disasters of operatic history. Show more
Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment perform music for wind. Mozart: Serenade in C minor, K388/K384a. Beethoven: Octet in E flat, Op 103. Show more
Concerts featuring music and performers from Vienna. Includes Haydn: Symphony No 77. Sibelius: Symphony No 3. Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op 20 No 5. Sibelius: Symphony No 6. Show more
Petroc Trelawny presents. With the Sitkovetsky Trio ahead of the Jersey International Music Festival and the Bridge Quartet playing ahead of a concert at St John's, Smith Square. Show more
Presented by Catherine Bott. CBSO/Andris Nelsons in Shostakovich: Symphony No 4 and Bartok: Violin Concerto No 2 (soloist - Ilya Gringolts). Plus music by Beethoven. Show more
Presented by Ian McMillan. With a tribute to poet Peter Porter, Jacob Polley's new work The Bugle, performance poet Polar Bear's spoken film script and City Poems for smartphones. Show more
Donald Macleod charts Barber's final years, troubled by alcoholism and creative blocks, and assesses the effect on the composer of one of the great disasters of operatic history. Show more
Nature writer Richard Mabey asks whether a sense of direction should be considered a sixth sense. Show more
Lopa Kothari is joined in the studio by Rokia Traore, a Malian singer-songwriter who has worked with artists as diverse as the Kronos Quartet and Ali Farka Toure. Show more
Susan Sharpe presents music by Widmann, Mozart, Bruckner, Debussy, Byrd, Suk, Smetana, CPE Bach, Huggett, Berlioz, Debussy, Vaughan Williams, Bartok, Gratton, Pfitzner and Grieg. Show more
