Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Show more

With Sarah Walker: this week a collection of autumnal music, Italian Cantatas by Handel and recordings by the flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal. Show more

Donald Macleod focuses on two completely contrasting Vaughan Williams operas, one being his most successful and the other a work that the composer fretted over for many years. Show more

The Elias String Quartet in a recital from 2010's Cheltenham Music Festival. Haydn: Quartet in E flat, Op 64 No 6. Debussy: Quartet in G minor. Schumann: String Quartet in A, Op 41. Show more

A performance of Janacek's powerful opera Katya Kabanova given at Chicago Lyric Opera. A fine cast is headed by leading Finnish dramatic soprano Karita Mattila. Show more

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy and English National Opera's new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. In Tune also pays tribute to Rudolf Barshai. Show more

From St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London. Kaspars Putnins conducts the BBC Singers in a performance of Rachmaninov's Vespers. Show more

Philip Dodd talks to cancer researcher Prof Frances Balkwill about her work to understand a disease that affects one third of Britons. Show more

Donald Macleod focuses on two completely contrasting Vaughan Williams operas, one being his most successful and the other a work that the composer fretted over for many years. Show more

Novelist and short story writer Ruth Thomas tells the true tale of how a missing cat in a misty cherry orchard started a life long interest in the life and work of Chekhov. Show more

Max Reinhardt's Guy Fawkes preparations include Fireworks, Fire Fire Fire, Schurer's Detonation, Jon Hendricks, Juana Molina and more Zappa. Plus a recording of Kate Tempest. Show more

Jonathan Swain's selection includes highlights from the 2009 Beethoven Festival in Bonn. Show more