Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms and dips into his rucksack for a surprise or two. Plus the latest Specialist Classical Chart. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3. Debussy: Prelude a L'apres-midi d'un faune. Rimsky-Korsakov: Nimfa. Beethoven: Piano Trio (Ghost). Saint-Saens: Africa, Op 89. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Balakirev's early career in St Petersburg, when he interited the mantle of 'father of Russian music' from Mikhail Glinka. Show more
Robert Plane (clarinet), Alice Neary (cello) and Benjamin Frith (piano) perform music by Zemlinsky, Webern and Brahms at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Show more
The BBC CO performs in Newport News, Virginia. Prokofiev: Classical Symphony. Stravinsky: The Firebird. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2. Plus Balakirev, Gregson and Bowen. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty, with live music from tenor Stuart Skelton and an interview with conductor Mark Wigglesworth, and pianist Garrick Ohlsson performs in the studio. Show more
Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Karl-Heinz Steffens conducts the CBSO at Birmingham's Symphony Hall in Schubert's Symphony No 8, Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and Dvorak's Symphony No 7. Show more
Anne McElvoy explores the idea of wilderness with poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, discussing edgelands, those forgotten places that are neither city nor countryside. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on Balakirev's early career in St Petersburg, when he interited the mantle of 'father of Russian music' from Mikhail Glinka. Show more
Novelist Hisham Matar reflects on a photograph of himself as a young boy with members of the 'rabbit club' in his grandfather's small Libyan town in the 1970s. Show more
Nick Luscombe's selection includes the Psychedelic Aliens, Basil Kirchin, Pierre Bastien and his robot orchestra, plus a rare recording of Takemitsu's Cross Talk. Show more
John Shea presents the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra performing music by Hurnik, Suk and Bruckner. Show more
