Frances Fyfield and her guests explore the fascinating evolution of one of the most popular symphonies ever written, Dvorak's Symphony No 9, 'From the New World'. Show more

Stories of graft and genius are revealed in handwritten music manuscripts as singer Simon Keenlyside and conductor Jane Glover join Frances Fyfield to explore Mozart's Don Giovanni. Show more

Frances Fyfield is in Paris for the last in the current series, telling the story of Bizet's Carmen through the composer's handwritten scores and notebooks. Show more

Frances Fyfield is joined by Chopin expert Adam Zamoyski and pianist Stephen Hough at the British Library to look at the Chopin's piano score, Barcarolle. Show more

Frances Fyfield is joined by conductor Christopher Warren-Green, musicologist Stephen Johnson and graphologist Ruth Rostrum to pore over the manuscript of Holst's The Planets. Show more

Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music, his tribute to the conductor Sir Henry Wood, launches the new series of Frances Fyfield's exploration of great music manuscripts. Show more

Frances Fyfield's latest run of programmes exploring and celebrating autographed music manuscripts finishes in an upbeat mood with a trip to Turin to see Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria. Show more

Frances Fyfield is joined by the star of La Scala's season-opening production of Madame Butterfly, Maria José Siri, to explore the manuscript of Puccini's operatic masterpiece. Show more

Frances Fyfield is in the British Library to look at the handwritten manuscript of one of Josef Haydn's London Symphonies, the Drum Roll. Show more

Frances Fyfield is joined by violinist Rupert Marshall Luck and pianist Lucy Parham to explore the love story behind the autograph manuscript Elgar's salon classic Salut D'Amour. Show more

George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess is the subject of Frances Fyfield's series exploring great pieces of music through the hand-written composition scores and sketches. Show more

Frances Fyfield tracks down the stories behind the scores of well-known pieces of music. Finzi's Clarinet Concerto. Frances is joined by acclaimed clarinettist Emma Johnson.

Frances Fyfield is in Brno to see the wild manuscript fragments that form Leos Janacek's spectacular Glagolitic Mass. Show more

Frances Fyfield is joined, in Milan, by soprano Irina Lungu and musicologist and conductor Nigel Simeone to explore the manuscript of Verdi's enduringly popular opera La Traviata. Show more

The singer Christine Andreas and Broadway MD Ted Sperling gather at the Library of Congress in Washington DC to explore the music manuscripts of the smash musical hit My Fair Lady. Show more

Frances Fyfield is joined by conductor Gianandrea Noseda to explore the often feverish handwriting of one of the most popular opera's ever written, Puccinini's La Boheme. Show more

On the 100th anniversary of Debussy's death, Frances Fyfield is joined by the French conductor Francois Xavier Roth to explore the composer's orchestral masterpiece, La Mer. Show more

Frances Fyfield is in Paris for her latest series celebrating the handwritten scores of famous pieces of classical music. Today it's a choral favourite - Gabriel Faure's Requiem. Show more

Sir Thomas Allen joins Frances Fyfield to explore the handwritten piano score of Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, the Oratorio commissioned for, and first performed in Birmingham. Show more

Frances Fyfield visits the Ricordi Archive in Milan to see the lavish manuscript of Puccini's final and unfinished opera Turandot. Show more