Rob Cowan presents music including a Strauss waltz, a Wagner overture, a Chopin mazurka and a Rachmaninov prelude. Show more

With Sarah Walker. Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture. Bax: Summer Music. Grieg: I Walked One Balmy Summer's Eve. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 2. Haydn: Summer (The Seasons). Show more

Donald Macleod and Suzanne Aspden discuss Handel's place in the London opera scene of the early 18th century, a world fraught with feuding both on and off the stage. Show more

The Schubert Ensemble perform a recital as part of the Leeds International Chambert Music Series 2010. Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor, K478. Chausson: Piano Quartet in A, Op 30. Show more

Katie Derham presents the Halle performing John Foulds's April - England, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 (soloist Paul Lewis) and Strauss's Ein Heldenleben. Show more

Live from Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival. Show more

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. With conductor Sakari Oramo on his concerts at the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival, plus pianist Nelson Freire ahead of his Prom with the BBC SO. Show more

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Thomas Dausgaard conducts his Danish ensembles in Ligeti: Night; Morning. Plus Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (soloist - Henning Kraggerud). Show more

Kate Clanchy reflects on the importance of the summer house to people in Scandinavia and Russia, including artists such as Grieg, Sibelius, Nabokov and Tove Jansson. Show more

With Andrew McGregor. Thomas Dausgaard's Prom with his Danish orchestra and choirs continues with Ligeti's Lux aeterna and the UK premiere of Rued Langgard's Music of the Spheres. Show more

A charming tale by Tove Jansson about two elderly eccentrics who develop an unlikely friendship after they tussle over a bench in the hothouse of a Finnish botanical garden. Show more

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Thomas Dausgaard's Prom with his Danish orchestra and choirs concludes with Sibelius' Fifth Symphony. Show more

Sean Street tells the story of how in 1610 Bristol merchant John Guy founded Cupids Cove, the first English settlement in Canada. He explores its re-discovery and all this reveals. Show more

Small objects of daily life unlock stories about the revolutions of 1989. Furniture curator Jana Scholze remembers life in Communist East Germany and a much-desired garden chair. Show more

Max Reinhardt's selection includes Robert Ashley's The Contents of her Purse from his opera Improvement, a Blues Prayer from Billy Jenkins and a Blues Moan by Blind Willie Johnson. Show more

Jonathan Swain presents music by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Fodor, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, Poulenc, Holten, Mozart, Schubert, Saint Saens, Verdi and Pachelbel. Show more