Rob Cowan presents music, news and the occasional surprise. Show more
A sequence of great music in classic recordings. Show more
Donald Macleod considers the effect Darius Milhaud's self-avowed happy life had on his music. Including La muse menagere (excerpts), Stanford Serenade and Kentuckiana. Show more
Gifted young American pianist Kit Armstrong performs with the Szymanowski Quartet at the 2010 Plush Festival in Dorset. Debussy: Preludes (Book 1). Faure: Piano Quartet in G minor. Show more
Louise Fryer presents a celebration of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Mozart: Mass in C minor. Turnage: Your Rockaby. Bernstein: Symphony No 1. Suk: Asrael Symphony. Show more
With Sean Rafferty. Tenor Piotr Beczala, soprano Nino Machaidze and conductor Daniel Oren on Romeo et Juliette at Covent Garden, plus music from clarinettist Michael Collins. Show more
Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Bridgewater Hall. HK Gruber conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Gottfried von Einem's Episodes from Turandot and Poulenc's Les biches. Show more
John Sessions reads Chance Would be a Fine Thing, an unpublished short story by Anthony Burgess about two women and their ill-fated experiments with tarot cards. Show more
Presented by Martin Handley, from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. HK Gruber conducts the BBC Philharmonic and Manchester Chamber Choir in his most famous composition, Frankenstein!! Show more
Ian McMillan presents a special edition in front of an audience at 2010's Durham Book Festival. With novelist and poet Jackie Kay, Peter Blegvad with an Eartoon and Matthew Caley. Show more
Donald Macleod considers the effect Darius Milhaud's self-avowed happy life had on his music. Including La muse menagere (excerpts), Stanford Serenade and Kentuckiana. Show more
Architect Sunand Prasad describes the fight to save Covent Garden from demolition, demonstrating how people power can prevent architectural destruction and disaster. Show more
Lopa Kothari presents sounds from around the world and an exclusive studio session by The Reverend Payton's Big Damn Band from Indiana. Show more
With Susan Sharpe. The final programme in a series from the Utrecht Early Music Festival includes a Handel opera and concertos, choral songs by Mendelssohn and canzonettas by Haydn. Show more
