Petroc Trelawny presents a special Christmas eve programme, including the opening of the final window in the musical advent calendar. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including performances by Jussi Bjorling; Music in Time: Schubert: Die schone Mullerin; Nordic composers: Alfven: Swedish Rhapsody No 3 (Dalarapsodi). Show more
Donald focuses on Berwald's operas, the young musicians he nurtured and, beyond music, the business acumen which saw him managing a glassworks and later a sawmill. Show more
The Danish String Quartet in a performance given at the Citadel in Aberdeen. Beethoven: String Quartet No 1 in F, Op 18. Nielsen: String Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 13. Show more
Ian Skelly presents a performance of Tchaikovsky's only comic opera, the Christmas story The Tsarina's Slippers, given at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 2009. Show more
Texts and music about kisses, with readings by Pippa Nixon and Jonathan Cullen. With Shakespeare, Fleur Adcock, Herrick and Sylvia Plath, plus Stravinsky and Irving Berlin. Show more
BBC New Generation Artists perform, including jazz trumpeter Laura Jurd with band Dinosaur and Siberian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov in CPE Bach and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1. Show more
Recorded at the BBC Proms 2015, London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev with Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Babayan and Alexei Volodin play the complete Prokofiev piano concertos. Show more
Recorded at the BBC Proms 2015, Tom Service presents the first part of Yo-Yo Ma performing the complete solo cello suites by JS Bach. Show more
Lars Petter Sveen recalls growing up in an atheist family. Show more
Mara Carlyle presents an alternative soundtrack to Christmas Eve, including new music from Anna Meredith, Vic Chesnutt's White Christmas and Weddell Seals recorded by Chris Watson. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents Christmas carols from Denmark, Romania, Belarus and the UK. Show more
