First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four
Conductor Valery Gergiev looks at Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony: A Soviet Artist's Reply to Just Criticism, written at the height of Stalin's purges. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four
Michael Berkeley introduces an in-depth exploration of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, including a full performance of the work that caused a riot at its premiere in 1913. Show more