Rob Cowan with music to begin the day. Arias by Puccini and Wagner, violin music by Paganini and Monti and Rolando Villazon sings some traditional Mexican songs.
Sarah Walker plays a collection of waltzes and classic recordings from Maurizio Pollini. Includes Johann Strauss II's Emperor Waltz and Ravel's La Valse. Show more
Donald Macleod reveals how after his wife's death in 1978, Leonard Bernstein began thinking his own mortality and creating a legacy. Show more
Steven Osborne (piano) in a recital at 2010's Edinburgh International Festival, featuring his own improvisations, plus Joplin, Gershwin, Ives, Crumb, Peterson, Ravel, Rachmaninov. Show more
Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. Wagner: Parsifal (Act 1 prelude). Strauss: 4 Last Songs. Schoenberg: 5 Pieces for Orchestra. Webern: 6 Pieces for Orchestra. Show more
A selection of music and guests from the arts world.
Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall. John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Monteverdi's Vespers. Show more
AL Kennedy explores the work and legacy of the so-called 'Glasgow Boys', a late 19th-century group of painters who were seen as Scotland's first modern artists. Show more
New Generation Artist jazz trumpeter Tom Arthurs performs some alternative jazz, joined by Benoit Delbecq on piano, Miles Perkin on bass and Thom Gossage on drums. Show more
Dramatist and singer Lizzie Nunnery on growing up in Liverpool and taking the city's beaches for granted. She explains the character of the people and her sensibility as a writer. Show more
Mary Ann Kennedy with music from across the globe, plus a session from Yorkshire band The Family Elan, led by bouzouki player Chris Hladowski and his sister, Stephanie Hladowski. Show more
With Susan Sharpe. Including the Orchestre Nationale de France performing music inspired by Spain. Plus music by Busoni, Falla, Ravel, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mozart, Bach, Haydn. Show more
