Martin Handley presents great pieces, great performances and a few surprises. Show more
With Andrew McGregor. Including Dowland: In darkness let me dwell; Osmo Vanska talks about recording Beethoven with the Minnesota Orchestra; Dvorak: Rusalka (excerpts). Show more
Alyn Shipton explores Dryden and Purcell's collaboration on the semi-opera King Arthur, bringing to life the world of Restoration theatre. Show more
Lucie Skeaping explores classical ballet's origins, which can be found in the balet comique de la royne, a stage entertainment held at the court of Catherine de Medici in 1581. Show more
From Cadogan Hall, London. Vocal ensemble Stile Antico perform Renaissance polyphony setting texts from the Song of Songs, from Ceballos, Clemens non Papa, Gombert and Guerrero. Show more
From Cadogan Hall, London. Concert given by the Nash Ensemble and tenor Toby Spence. Holloway: Fantasy-Pieces, Op 16. Schumann: Liederkreis; Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47. Show more
Alyn Shipton explores the recorded catalogue of Wynton Kelly, one of the most individual pianists in jazz, famous for his work with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Wes Montgomery. Show more
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
Two Schumann performances: Dutch baritone and current NGA Henk Neven sings Liederkreis, Op 39, and Russian viola player and former NGA Maxim Rysanov plays Marchenbilder. Show more
From the Royal Albert Hall. In their second concert at the 2010 Proms, the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vanska perform Berg's Violin Concerto, featuring Gil Shaham. Show more
Rana Mitter discusses Friedrich Schiller's great work Ode to Joy, famously set to music by Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony, with Billy Bragg, Peter Oswald and David Constantine. Show more
From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Osmo Vanska conducts the Minnesota Orchestra, an international line-up of soloists and the BBC Symphony Chorus in Beethoven's Symphony No 9. Show more
Alan Harris's dark fantasy about a man who has two lives. Terry is a clerk in a Cardiff law firm but also a warrior in an online game. But are his lives starting to converge? Show more
Presented by Tom Service. Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in premieres of recent works by Martin Suckling, James Clapperton, David Fennessy and David Horne. Show more
Robert Hollingworth explores Monteverdi's powerful fourth book of madrigals and plays recordings by Concerto Italiano, the Consort of Musicke, I Fagiolini and La Venexiana. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music by Svendsen, Bruch, Halvorsen, Schubert, Suk, Engel, Britten, Viotti, MacDowell, Albinoni, Debussy, Bach, Rosetti, Wiren, JC Bach, Schreker and Kverno. Show more
