Amanda Vickery and Tom Service reveal the story behind one of the world's most popular operas, Verdi's La traviata, and its incendiary premiere which scandalised Victorian London. Show more

Tom Service presents 40 years of great BBC archive featuring the French composer, conductor and musical icon Pierre Boulez, who died on 5th January 2016 at the age of 90. Show more

Claudia Hammond finds out to what extent music can influence the brain from a neurological perspective and how our musical tastes, education and preferences influence our lives. Show more

Tom Service and Why Music? resident experts Victoria Williamson and Philip Ball draw together some of the weekend's themes and answer questions from the audience and listeners. Show more

Tom Service explores what Schoenberg meant by dissonance and how he broke free from tonality in his music. Show more

Tom Service focuses on Schoenberg's own experience in the new atonal world that he entered, which the composer likened to being dropped in boiling water. Show more

Tom Service focuses on Schoenberg's objection to being dubbed a 'famous theoretician and controversial musician'. Show more

Drama documentary recreating the first performance of Handel's Messiah at London's Foundling Hospital in 1750, presented by Amanda Vickery and Tom Service. Show more

Tribute to the provocative composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who died in March, featuring extraordinary performances and documentary from the BBC's television archive. Show more

Amanda Vickery and Tom Service reveal an exceptional story of triumph of human spirit over unspeakable terror. In August 1942, a concert took place in Leningrad that defies belief. Show more

Tom Service takes a journey through Russia on the trail of the melodies of Russian giant Sergei Rachmaninoff. A celebration of a composer's musical triumph over critical adversity. Show more

Sarah Hall on new short story collection Madame Fox, Sir Antony Sher on his Queer Icon, contemporary depictions of fatherhood, and Beethoven's 9th at G20. Show more

Tom Service presents an analysis of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's Graal Théâtre followed by a performance of the work by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ludovic Morlot. Show more

Tom Service presents a tribute to British composer Sir John Tavener, whose music reflects the life of a man who saw music as a form of prayer. Show more

Performances of four Pierre Boulez works - Messagesquisse, Dialogue de l'ombre double, Mémoriale and Anthèmes - by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Show more

A review of Inventing Impressionism at the National Gallery, a look at anti-semitism in theatre, Sigourney Weaver on her new film Chappie and Simon Rattle's return to the UK. Show more

Tom Service heads from London to Vienna and Salzburg to unpick the living, breathing genius that was Mozart. With Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Nicola Benedetti, Paul Morley and others. Show more

Musicologist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis joins Tom Service to explore why repetition is so essential in music. Show more

Tom Service goes on an interactive odyssey to discover the secrets behind our favourite video game music. Show more

Tom Service meets German conductor Christian Thielemann, widely regarded as one of the greatest living exponents of the Austro-German symphonic and operatic repertoire. Show more