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

In Building a Library, Ben Gernon chooses his favourite recording of the complete ballet of Ravel's Mother Goose, plus a round-up of the week's top new classical releases. Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to pianist Jeremy Denk, composer Missy Mazzoli discusses the dramatic range of her work, and Gillian Dooley's new discoveries on the music of Jane Austen. Show more

Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with pianist Keelan Carew, with boundary-pushing tracks by Kurt Weill, Busoni, Chopin, Nat King Cole and Casiopea. Show more

Euphonium player Steven Mead reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, from a magnificent and little-heard piece by Richard Strauss, to a tango by Piazzolla. Show more

From King Kong to Jason and the Argonauts to Wallace and Gromit, Matthew Sweet looks back at animating the inanimate and the role that music plays. Show more

Kathryn Tickell presents Fara and guests in a concert recorded at last month's Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow. Show more

Kevin Le Gendre presents extended highlights from Hiromi’s dazzling solo piano set on the J to Z Presents stage at the London Jazz Festival. Show more

From the New York Metropolitan Opera: Verdi's tragedy culminating in a masked ball, conducted by Carlo Rizzi and starring Charles Castronovo and Angela Meade. Show more

New music performed by the Ulster Orchestra, Rolf Hind, and the Kronos Quartet. Plus Alexander Hawkins and Sofia Jernberg talk about their new album. Show more

Corey Mwamba shares new free jazz and a work inspired by a piano dropped into deep waters by Rosanna Gunnarson and Karin Johansson. Show more

Violinist Geneva Lewis joins BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jaime Martín in Grace Williams' violin concerto, plus works by Dora Pejačević and Holst's The Planets. Show more