Elizabeth Alker with a Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.

In Building a Library, Laura Tunbridge chooses her favourite recording of Schumann's Cello Concerto and tenor Nicky Spence shares his selection of exciting new releases. Show more

Tom Service is in conversation with the Finnish soprano, Karita Mattila, and he catches up with double-bassist and composer, Edgar Meyer. Show more

Jess Gillam and composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman share the music they love including Tchaikovsky, Arve Henriksen, Pan Daijing, Ella & Louis and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Show more

Soprano Helena Dix reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from a musical description of a Blue Wren, to a very famous overture. Show more

Matthew Sweet musters all his resourcefulness to bring us the best modern survival film scores as Jodie Comer tackles rising water and raising a child in The End We Start From. Show more

Kathryn Tickell with a live show from this year's festival in Glasgow including music from Canadian folk band Beòlach. Show more

At the Metropolitan opera, New York, redemption overcomes rage when a nun and a murderer meet on death row. Starring Latonia Moore, Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny. Show more

Tom Service reports on the Venice Music Biennale, with electronic music by Robert Henke and Brigitta Muntendorf, and our own recording of a world premiere by Julius Aglinskas. Show more

Corey Mwamba shares new free jazz and improvised music that explores the power of resonance, with snare solos by Regan Bowering and a droney session recorded in a Spanish convent. Show more

Giovanni Antonini conducts the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Basel Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Haydn's mighty Creation from the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. John Shea presents. Show more