249 episodes
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| 20070219 | Petroc Trelawny features pianist Angela Hewitt, who begins the programme with an excerpt from Rameau's Suite in G minor. |
| 20070220 | Petroc Trelawny features pianist Angela Hewitt, who begins the programme with an excerpt from Chabrier's Dix pieces pittoresques. |
| 20070221 | Petroc Trelawny features pianist Angela Hewitt, who begins the programme with an excerpt from Francois Couperin's Livres de clavecin (Ordre 6). |
| 20070222 | Petroc Trelawny features pianist Angela Hewitt, who begins the programme with an excerpt from Chopin's Nocturne in Fm, Op 55 No 1. |
| 20070226 | Petroc Trelawny features violinist Maxim Vengerov, who begins the programme with Bazzini's sprightly Ronde des Lutins. |
| 20070227 | Petroc Trelawny features violinist Maxim Vengerov, who begins the programme with Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565. |
| 20070228 | Petroc Trelawny features violinist Maxim Vengerov, who begins the programme with Saint-Saens's Introduction and Rondo capriccioso. |
| 20070301 | Petroc Trelawny features violinist Maxim Vengerov, who is joined by viola player Lawrence Power to begin the programme with part of Mozart's Sinfonia concertante in E flat, K364. |
| 20070305 | Geoffrey Smith features pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who begins the programme with Schubert's Impromptu in E flat, D899. |
| 20070306 | Geoffrey Smith features pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who begins the programme with Mozart's Rondo in D, K382. |
| 20070307 | Geoffrey Smith features pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who begins the programme with Debussy's Etude Pour les arpeges composes. |
| 20070308 | Geoffrey Smith features pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who begins the programme with Beethoven's 32 Variations in C minor, WoO80. |
| 20070312 | With Catherine Bott. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Conductor Simon Rattle begins the programme with Bernstein's Prelude, Fugure and Riffs. |
| 20070313 | With Catherine Bott. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Conductor Simon Rattle begins the programme with the Urlicht from Mahler's Symphony No 2. |
| 20070314 | With Catherine Bott. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way: conductor Simon Rattle begins the programme with Sibelius's Night-Ride and Sunrise. |
| 20070315 | With Catherine Bott. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Conductor Simon Rattle begins the programme with La vallee des cloches from Ravel's Miroirs orchestrated by Percy Grainger |
| 20070319 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. The multi-talented Wayne Marshall begins by conducting the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in music by George Gershwin |
| 20070320 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Wayne Marshall begins the programme by playing his own transcription for organ of the overture to Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II. |
| 20070321 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Wayne Marshall begins the programme at the piano in concert with his soprano sister Melanie. |
| 20070322 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Wayne Marshall begins the programme directing Gershwin's I Got Rhythm from the piano. |
| 20070326 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Dawn Upshaw begins the programme with an aria from Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. |
| 20070327 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Dawn Upshaw begins the programme with Ravel's Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme. |
| 20070328 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Dawn Upshaw begins the programme with an aria from Bach's Cantata BWV199. |
| 20070329 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Dawn Upshaw begins the programme with Joseph Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne. |
| 20070402 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Norwegian cellist Truls Mork begins the programme with the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No 6. |
| 20070403 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Cellist Truls Mork begins the programme with Schumann's Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70. |
| 20070404 | With Petroc Trelawny. Music with a featured artist leading the way. Cellist Truls Mork begins with Bruch's Kol Nidrei, joined by the French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| 20070405 | With Petroc Trelawny. Featured artist Truls Mork is the soloist in Haydn's Cello Concerto in C, with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra directed by Iona Brown. |
| 20070409 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Pianist Murray Perahia begins the programme with Schubert's Impromptu No 3 in G flat, D899. |
| 20070410 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Pianist Murray Perahia begins the programme with Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words. |
| 20070411 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Pianist Murray Perahia begins the programme with Mozart's Piano Concerto No 3 in D. |
| 20070412 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Pianist Murray Perahia begins the programme with Handel's Chaconne for Keyboard in G. |
| 20070416 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Clarinetist Michael Collins begins the programme with Poulenc's witty Clarinet Sonata. |
| 20070417 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Clarinetist Michael Collins directs his group London Winds in Ligeti's Bagatelles for wind quintet. |
| 20070418 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Clarinetist Michael Collins begins the programme with Arnold Bax's Clarinet Sonata. |
| 20070419 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Clarinetist Michael Collins begins tonight's programme playing Copland's Sextet with the Vanbrugh Quartet and pianist Martin Roscoe. |
| 20070423 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Tenor Placido Domingo begins the programme with Rossini's Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville). |
| 20070424 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Tenor Placido Domingo begins tonight's programme with Beethoven's Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!... In des Lebens Fruhlingstagen (Fidelio, Act 2). |
| 20070425 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Tenor Placido Domingo begins the programme with Puccini's Nessun dorma (Turandot, Act III). |
| 20070426 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Tenor Placido Domingo begins the programme with Agustin Lara's Granada. |
| 20070430 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Tonight Mark Elder conducts tenor Marcelo Alvarez and the Orchestra of the Nice Opera in music from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. |
| 20070501 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra in Butterworth's rhapsody A Shropshire Lad. |
| 20070502 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Mark Elder conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in music from Shostakovich's Hamlet. |
| 20070503 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Mark Elder conducts soprano Jane Eaglen and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Casta Diva from Bellini's Norma. |
| 20070507 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Trombonist Christian Lindberg begins the programme with Rimsky-Korsakov's Concerto for Trombone and Military Band. |
| 20070508 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Trombonist Christian Lindberg begins the programme with Frank Martin's Ballade for Trombone and Orchestra. |
| 20070509 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Trombonist Christian Lindberg begins the programme with Leopold Mozart's Concerto in D for alto trombone. |
| 20070510 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Christian Lindberg begins the programme by conducting Alfven's Fest-Overture. |
| 20070514 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Violinist Vadim Repin begins the programme with Bartok's Romanian Folkdances. |
| 20070515 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Violinist Vadim Repin begins the programme with Chausson's Poeme for violin and orchestra. |
| 20070516 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Violinist Vadim Repin begins the programme with Prokofiev's Five Melodies. |
| 20070517 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Violinist Vadim Repin performs Tikhon Khrennikov's First Violin Concerto. |
| 20070521 | With Jonathan Swain. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Artur Schnabel begins the programme with Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 22 in F, Op 54. |
| 20070522 | With Jonathan Swain. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Artur Schnabel begins the programme with Schubert's Impromptu in G flat, D899 No 2. |
| 20070523 | With Jonathan Swain. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Artur Schnabel begins the programme with Mozart's Rondo in A minor, K511. |
| 20070524 | With Jonathan Swain. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Artur Schnabel and cellist Pierre Fournier begin the programme with Beethoven's Cello Sonata in C, Op 102. |
| 20070528 | With Catherine Bott. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Baritone Simon Keenlyside begins with his role of Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute. |
| 20070529 | With Catherine Bott. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Baritone Simon Keenlyside begins the programme in one of his signature roles, Britten's Billy Budd. |
| 20070530 | With Catherine Bott. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Baritone Simon Keenlyside begins the programme with a selection of Schubert's lieder. |
| 20070531 | With Catherine Bott. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Baritone Simon Keenlyside begins the programme with excerpts from a new recording of Donizetti's Dom Sebastien, Roi de Portugal. |
| 20070604 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs an arrangement of Erbarme dich from Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra conducted by Ton Koopman. |
| 20070605 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is joined by his Silk Road Ensemble to perform music from China and Central Asia. |
| 20070606 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is joined by pianist Emanuel Ax to perform Beethoven's Cello Sonata No 4 in C. |
| 20070607 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs part of Tan Dun's Symphony 1997. |
| 20070611 | With Geoffrey Smith. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. John Eliot Gardiner begins the programme with Laudate Pueri Dominum from his pioneering recording of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. |
| 20070612 | With Geoffrey Smith. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. John Eliot Gardiner begins the programme with music from Weber's opera Oberon. |
| 20070613 | With Geoffrey Smith. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. John Eliot Gardiner begins the programme with Bach's Cantata No 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, from the recordings made on his extraordinary Bach Pilgrimage. |
| 20070614 | With Geoffrey Smith. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. John Eliot Gardiner begins the programme conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Chabrier's rhapsody Espana. |
| 20070618 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Martha Argerich begins the programme with six of Chopin's Preludes. |
| 20070619 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Martha Argerich begins the programme with Ravel's Sonatine. |
| 20070620 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Martha Argerich begins the programme with Bach's Toccata in C minor. |
| 20070621 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Martha Argerich plays Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3 in C. |
| 20070625 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Flautist Emmanuel Pahud plays Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 5 with the Berlin Baroque Soloists. |
| 20070626 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Flautist Emmanuel Pahud performs Debussy's First Arabesque. |
| 20070627 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Flautist Emmanuel Pahud performs Toru Takemitsu's Towards the Sea III with harpist Mariko Anraku. |
| 20070628 | With Martin Handley. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Flautist Emmanuel Pahud is joined by the Berlin Philharmonic for Mozart's Flute Concerto No 1. |
| 20070702 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Angela Gheorghiu sings arias by Bellini and Puccini, beginning with Casta Diva from Norma. |
| 20070703 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Tenor Roberto Alagna joins his wife Angela Gheorghiu for an excerpt from Verdi's Otello. |
| 20070704 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Angela Gheorghiu sings a selection of earlier music, including arias by Handel and Mozart. |
| 20070705 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Angela Gheorghiu performs songs from her native Romania. |
| 20070709 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Jiri Belohlavek conducts the Prague Symphony Orchestra and soprano Eva Urbanova in Verdi's Ritorna Vincitor from Aida. |
| 20070710 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Jiri Belohlavek conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Brahms' Academic Festival Overture. |
| 20070711 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Jiri Belohlavek conducts the Prague Symphony Orchestra in Suk's Fantastic Scherzo. |
| 20070712 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Jiri Belohlavek conducts the Czech Philharmonia Orchestra in Smetana's Vltava (Ma Vlast). |
| 20070716 | With Ian Skelly. A sequence of music with a featured Proms performer leading the way. After his performance in this evening's Prom, we hear Antonio Pappano conducting his other orchestra, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, in Wagner's Siegfried's Funeral March. |
| 20070718 | With Ian Skelly. A sequence of music with a featured Proms performer leading the way. Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Voices in Puccini's La Rondine. |
| 20070719 | With Ian Skelly. A sequence of music with a featured Proms performer leading the way. Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini. |
| 20070910 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Countertenor Andreas Scholl begins the programme with an aria from Bach's Cantata Vergnugte Ruh. |
| 20070911 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Countertenor Andreas Scholl begins the programme with 'He was despised' from Handel's Messiah. |
| 20070912 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Countertenor Andreas Scholl performs an aria from Mozart's early opera Mitridate, re di Ponto. |
| 20070913 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Countertenor Andreas Scholl begins the programme with the Agnus Dei from Bach's Mass in B minor. |
| 20070917 | With Geoffrey Smith. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. To celebrate the London Philharmonic Orchestra's 75th anniversary, the orchestra plays under some of its former principal conductors. Adrian Boult conducts Holst's ballet music from The Perfect Fool. |
| 20070918 | With Geoffrey Smith. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. To celebrate the orchestra's 75th anniversary, Bernard Haitink conducts the LPO in Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. |
| 20070919 | With Geoffrey Smith. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. To celebrate the orchestra's 75th anniversary, Georg Solti conducts the LPO, the choirs of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester Cathedrals, and organist Ralph Downes in Walton's Coronation Te Deum. |
| 20070920 | With Geoffrey Smith. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. To celebrate the orchestra's 75th anniversary, Klaus Tennstedt conducts the LPO in Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Wagner's Gotterdammerung. |
| 20070924 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Felicity Lott performs a feast of English music including excerpts from Britten's Peter Grimes |
| 20070925 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Felicity Lott is well known for her interpretations of Strauss's music and here performs in the closing scene of his opera Capriccio. |
| 20070926 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Felicity Lott performs French music, including songs by Poulenc and Faure. |
| 20070927 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Soprano Felicity Lott sings arias by Mozart, including from The Marriage of Figaro and Cosi fan tutte. |
| 20071001 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Helene Grimaud begins with Brahms's Three Intermezzi. |
| 20071002 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Helene Grimaud begins with Chopin's Barcarolle, Op 60. |
| 20071003 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Helene Grimaud begins the programme as soloist in Arvo Part's Credo. |
| 20071004 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Pianist Helene Grimaud begins with the Etudes-Tableaux by Rachmaninov. |
| 20071022 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. The Brodsky Quartet are joined by Anne Sofie von Otter for Respighi's Il Tramonto. |
| 20071023 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. The Brodsky Quartet have recorded the complete Shostakovich String Quartets, and this programme includes his Quartet No 7. |
| 20071024 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. This programme includes the Brodsky Quartet's recording of Britten's 3 Divertimenti. |
| 20071025 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. The Brodsky Quartet perform a Quartet by Tunde Jegede inspired by the music of Beethoven. |
| 20071029 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Cellist Steven Isserlis begins with an early work by Strauss, his Romance for cello and orchestra. |
| 20071030 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Cellist Steven Isserlis collaborates with his friend Stephen Hough in music by Liszt. |
| 20071031 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Cellist Steven Isserlis performs Thrinos, a solo work written for him by John Tavener. |
| 20071101 | With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Cellist Steven Isserlis begins the programme with a rarity by Faure written for cello and organ. |
| 20071105 | With Tom Service. This week's featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming. We hear her perform works by Mozart and Handel, including the Countess' aria Porgi Amor from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. |
| 20071106 | With Tom Service. This week's featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming. We hear her perform music from the opera stage, including Song to the Moon from Dvorak's Rusalka. |
| 20071107 | With Tom Service. This week's featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming. She once considered following a jazz career and we hear her perform with jazz pianist Fred Hersch. |
| 20071108 | With Tom Service. This week's featured artist is American soprano Renee Fleming. We hear her as the Marschallin in an award-winning recording of Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier. |
| 20071112 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Conductor Richard Hickox and the BBC Philharmonic begin with Percy Grainger's English Dance. |
| 20071113 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Conductor Richard Hickox is joined by soprano Susan Gritton and members of Collegium Musicum 90 in Hummel's offertory Alma virgo. |
| 20071114 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. Richard Hickox conducts Sinfonia 21 in the first suite of Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances. |
| 20071115 | With Petroc Trelawny. A sequence of music with a featured artist leading the way. Richard Hickox conducts soprano Yvonne Kenny and the LSO in Per pieta from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. |
| 20071119 | With Petroc Trelawny. Pianist Imogen Cooper is the featured artist and the programme includes Schubert's 3 Kalvierstucke, D946. |
| 20071120 | With Petroc Trelawny. The spotlight is on featured artist pianist Imogen Cooper, and the music includes Ravel's Alborada del gracioso and La Vallee des cloches from Mirroirs. |
| 20071121 | With Petroc Trelawny. Pianist Imogen Cooper features in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and conductor Neville Marriner. |
| 20071122 | With Petroc Trelawny. Pianist Imogen Cooper is the featured artist in Schubert's Des Baches Wiegenlied from Die Schöne Müllerin, with baritone Wolfgang Holzmair. |
| 20071126 | With Martin Handley. Baritone Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. In this programme he performs Beethoven's song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte with pianist Alfred Brendel |
| 20071127 | With Martin Handley. Baritone Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. This programme includes an excerpt from Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony. |
| 20071128 | With Martin Handley. Baritone Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. Including arias from Bach's Mass in B minor and St John Passion. |
| 20071129 | With Martin Handley. Baritone Matthias Goerne is the featured artist. Including some of Hans Eisler's Hollywood songs. |
| 20071203 | With Ian Skelly. Baroque violinist Rachel Podger performs the eighth of Vivaldi's La Stravaganza Violin Concertos, Op 4. |
| 20071204 | With Ian Skelly. Baroque violinist Rachel Podger is joined by fortepianist Gary Cooper to perform Mozart's Sonata in B flat for Violin and Keyboard, K378. |
| 20071205 | With Ian Skelly. Baroque violinist Rachel Podger performs Bach's Solo Sonata No 2 in A minor, BWV1003. |
| 20071210 | Petroc Trelawny presents The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers, who perform Bach's Jauchzet, frohlocket! from Weihnachts-Oratorium with the Symphony of Harmony and Invention. |
| 20071211 | Petroc Trelawny presents The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers, who perform Carver's O bone Jesu. |
| 20071212 | Petroc Trelawny presents The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers, who perform Palestrina's Motet, Assumpta est Maria. |
| 20071213 | Petroc Trelawny presents The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers, who perform Tallis' Spem in alium. |
| 20071217 | With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring American conductor Marin Alsop, who was a pupil of Leonard Bernstein. Including her recording of Bernstein's Divertimento. |
| 20071218 | With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring conductor Marin Alsop, who is known for her interpretations of American music. Including Gershwin's Blue Monday. |
| 20071219 | With Petroc Trelawny. Marin Alsop became principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2002, and this programme features their recording of Bartok's Dance Suite. |
| 20071220 | With Petroc Trelawny. Marin Alsop returns to American music, and her recording of the Barber Violin Concerto with soloist James Buswell. |
| 20080107 | With Petroc Trelawny. Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie is the featured artist and the programme includes music for solo harpsichord by Rameau. |
| 20080108 | With Petroc Trelawny. Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie is the featured artist and the programme includes a pioneering recording by Christie's group Les Arts Florissants of music by Charpentier. |
| 20080109 | With Petroc Trelawny. Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie is the featured artist and the programme includes an excerpt from Handel's oratorio Theodora. |
| 20080110 | With Petroc Trelawny. Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie is the featured artist and the programme includes an excerpt from Mozart's opera Die Zauberflote. |
| 20080114 | With Martin Handley. Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Bach's Violin Concerto No 2 in E, BWV 1042, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| 20080115 | With Martin Handley. Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Bartok's Tempo di ciaconna, from his Sonata for Solo Violin. |
| 20080116 | With Martin Handley. Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Chausson's Poeme, Op 25, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Okko Kamu. |
| 20080117 | With Martin Handley. Violinist Nigel Kennedy is the featured artist. Including Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Violins, with Daniel Stabrawa and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| 20080121 | With Tom Service. The Nash Ensemble are the featured artists and the programme includes the Sextet by Francis Poulenc. |
| 20080122 | With Tom Service. The Nash Ensemble are the featured artists and the programme includes Mark-Anthony Turnage's An Invention on 'Solitude'. |
| 20080123 | With Jonathan Swain. Featuring a live recording of the Nash Ensemble playing Beethoven's Clarinet Trio at Wigmore Hall in 2005. |
| 20080124 | With Jonathan Swain. The final programme on the Nash Ensemble features music by one of their collaborators, Malcolm Arnold, and includes his Trio for flute, viola and bassoon. |
| 20080128 | With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring the pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough. Including his recording of Schoenberg's 6 Kleine Klavierstucke, Op 19. |
| 20080129 | With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough's recording of Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder, Op 18. Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano) Adrian Thompson (tenor) Stephan Loges (baritone) Stephen Hough and Graham Johnson (piano duet). |
| 20080130 | With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough's recording of Beethoven's Sonata in A minor, Op 23, with violinist Robert Mann. |
| 20080131 | With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough playing Suk's Ballade and Serenade, Op 3, with cellist Steven Isserlis. |
| 20080205 | Presented by Petroc Trelawny, the programme marks the Halle Orchestra's 150th birthday, and includes a historic recording of Berlioz conducted by Hamilton Harty. |
| 20080206 | With Petroc Trelawny. Marking the Halle Orchestra's 150th birthday, this programme celebrates the orchestra's relationship with John Barbirolli and includes music by Elgar. |
| 20080207 | Introduced by Petroc Trelawny, the programme marks the Halle Orchestra's 150th birthday with performances conducted by three previous music directors - James Loughran, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Kent Nagano. |
| 20080211 | With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff, who performs Bach's Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV 1007. |
| 20080212 | With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is cellist Heinrich Schiff, who performs Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. |
| 20080213 | With Catherine Bott. Featuring cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff, who performs Haydn's Cello Concerto in C with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner. |
| 20080214 | With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff, who conducts the Northern Sinfonia playing Schubert's Overture in C (In the Italian Style). |
| 20080218 | With Tom Service. A profile of American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, well-known for her interpretations of French music. Plus a performance of Ravel's Sheherazade. |
| 20080219 | Tom Service profiles American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and includes her version of Dido's Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, plus opera arias by Mozart. |
| 20080220 | Tom Service profiles mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and returns to French repertoire with excerpts from Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict and Damnation of Faust. |
| 20080221 | Tom Service concludes his profile of mezzo-soprano Susan Graham with Berg's Seven Early Songs and opera arias by Handel. |
| 20080225 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is the pianist Peter Donohoe and the programme includes music by Brahms. |
| 20080226 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is the pianist Peter Donohoe, who performs works including a piano concerto by Kevin Volans |
| 20080227 | Petroc Trelawny introduces performances by the pianist Peter Donohoe, who plays music by composers including Chopin. |
| 20080228 | Petroc Trelawny introduces performances by pianist Peter Donohoe, who plays music by Debussy and Rachmaninov. |
| 20080303 | With Petroc Trelawny. This week's featured artist is conductor Sakari Oramo, who in this programme leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the CBSO Youth Chorus in John Foulds' Three Mantras from Avatara. |
| 20080304 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is conductor Sakari Oramo, who directs the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Uuno Klami's Karelian Rhapsody. |
| 20080305 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is conductor Sakari Oramo, who leads the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Bartok's Romanian Folkdances. |
| 20080306 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is conductor Sakari Oramo, who leads performances of contemporary music - beginning with Magnus Lindberg's Chorale. |
| 20080310 | Catherine Bott profiles violinist and leader of his own string quartet, Thomas Zehetmair, in a programme that includes Beethoven's Romance in F and music by Elliott Carter |
| 20080311 | Catherine Bott profiles Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair in a programme that includes Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041. |
| 20080312 | Catherine Bott profiles Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair, who features as soloist in a recording of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No 2. |
| 20080313 | Catherine Bott profiles Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair in a programme that includes the Sonata No 4 for solo violin by Ysaye. |
| 20080317 | Tenor Mark Padmore is the featured artist, ahead of his performance as the Evangelist in Bach's St John Passion on Good Friday. The programme includes Beethoven's song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte, Op 98, with Graham Johnson accompanying on piano. |
| 20080318 | The featured artist is tenor Mark Padmore, who sings Handel's Thus when the sun from's watery bed, from the oratorio Samson, with The English Concert directed by Andrew Manze. |
| 20080319 | Featuring Mark Padmore, who sings the title role in an excerpt from Act 3 of Rameau's Zoroastre with soprano Gaelle Mechaly and Les Arts Florissants directed by William Christie. |
| 20080320 | Featuring tenor Mark Padmore singing Bach's Welt, deine Lust ist Last... Mein Verlangen ist from Cantata No 161, with the English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner. |
| 20080325 | With Catherine Bott.This week's featured artist is pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who gives a performance of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No 1. |
| 20080326 | With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the programme includes a performance of Haydn's Sonata in D, H XVI 37. |
| 20080327 | The featured artist is pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the programme includes a selection of Grieg's Lyric Pieces performed on Grieg's own piano at his house in Troldhaugen in Norway. |
| 20080331 | With Catherine Bott. The featured artist is soprano Karita Mattila, who sings music from her native Scandinavia, including Sibelius's Luonnotar. |
| 20080401 | Catherine Bott profiles soprano Karita Mattila. She performs vocal works by Mozart including the role of Fiordiligi in his opera Cosi fan tutte. |
| 20080402 | Catherine Bott profiles soprano Karita Mattila. She sings excerpts from operatic works, including one from Janacek's Jenufa. |
| 20080403 | Catherine Bott profiles soprano Karita Mattila, who in this programme sings music by Schubert and Schumann. |
| 20080407 | With Suzy Klein. Featuring pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, who last year celebrated his 70th birthday, and who performs Bach's Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052. |
| 20080408 | With Suzy Klein. Featuring the work of pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, in a programme that includes Beethoven's Sonata No 23 in F minor (Appassionata). |
| 20080409 | With Suzy Klein. Featuring the work of pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy in a programme that includes Richard Strauss' Don Juan. |
| 20080410 | With Suzy Klein. Featuring the work of pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy in a programme that includes Chopin's Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52. |
| 20080414 | With Catherine Bott. Featuring the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, who perform music by composers including Handel. |
| 20080415 | With Catherine Bott. Featuring the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, who perform music by composers including Purcell. |
| 20080416 | With Catherine Bott. Featuring the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, who perform music by composers including Vivaldi. |
| 20080417 | With Catherine Bott. Featuring the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, who perform music by composers including Rachmaninov. |
| 20080421 | Tom Service introduces this week's featured artist, soprano Natalie Dessay, who performs Handel's duet Ah, nella sorte umane with fellow soprano Veronique Gens. |
| 20080422 | With Tom Service. The featured artist is soprano Natalie Dessay and the programme includes, among others, her performance in the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. |
| 20080423 | With Tom Service. The featured artist is soprano Natalie Dessay and the programme includes her performance as Konstanze in Mozart's opera Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. |
| 20080424 | With Tom Service. The featured artist is soprano Natalie Dessay, who sings the role of a nightingale in works by Stravinsky and Saint-Saens. |
| 20080428 | Catherine Bott profiles American violinist Joshua Bell in a programme that features his recording of Debussy's Violin Sonata, with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. |
| 20080429 | Catherine Bott profiles American violinist Joshua Bell in a programme that features his performance of Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1. |
| 20080430 | Catherine Bott profiles violinist Joshua Bell, who is heard performing John Corigliano's music for the film The Red Violin. |
| 20080501 | Catherine Bott profiles violinist Joshua Bell, who is featured performing Barber's Violin Concerto and music by Bernstein. |
| 20080505 | With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring pianist Mikhail Pletnev, with recordings of Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux in E flat minor, G minor, C sharp minor and E flat minor (Ops 33, Nos 6, 9, 8 and Op 39 No 5). |
| 20080506 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who performs Tchaikovsky's Meditation, Mazurque pour danser and Polacca de concert from 18 Pieces, Op 72. |
| 20080507 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who performs Chopin's Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31. |
| 20080508 | With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring the work of Mikhail Pletnev, with a performance of Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 10 in C, Op 70. |
| 20080513 | Presented by Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is celebrated organist Gillian Weir, who is heard performing Messiaen's Meditations sur le mystere de la Sainte-Trinite, in a recording from Arhus Cathedral in Denmark. |
| 20080514 | Presented by Petroc Trelawny. The featured artist is organist Gillian Weir, who performs Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544, in a recording from the Thomaskirche, Leipzig. |
| 20080515 | Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Featuring organist Gillian Weir, who performs Liszt's St Francis of Paola walking on the waves, arranged by Lionel Rogg, in a recording from the Royal Albert Hall, London. |
| 20080519 | Tom Service profiles clarinettist Sabine Meyer, who is heard performing Lutoslawski's Dance Preludes accompanied by pianist Alfons Kontarsky. |
| 20080520 | With Tom Service. Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with recordings of Weber's Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor with the orchestra of the Staatskapelle Dresden under Herbert Blomstedt. |
| 20080521 | With Tom Service. Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with a recording of Brahms's Clarinet Trio in A minor with cellist Heinrich Schiff and pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. |
| 20080522 | With Tom Service. Featuring clarinettist Sabine Meyer, with a recording of Copland's Clarinet Concerto with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ingo Metzmacher. |
| 20080526 | With Suzy Klein. Featuring Jordi Savall, who directs Hesperion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya in the invitatory antiphon Regem cui, part of his 'Route to the Orient' project. |
| 20080527 | Presented by Suzy Klein. The featured artist is Jordi Savall, who is joined by harpsichordist Ton Koopman in Bach's Sonata in G for viola da gamba and keyboard, BWV1027. |
| 20080528 | Presented by Suzy Klein. Featuring Jordi Savall, who directs Les Concerts des Nations in Mozart's serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik. |
| 20080529 | Presented by Suzy Klein. The featured artist is Jordi Savall and the programme includes pieces he wrote mourning the death of the artist Caravaggio, with Savall himself directing Hesperion XXI and Le Concert des Nations. |
| 20080602 | With Petroc Trelawny. The programme features South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, and includes tracks from his album African Magic. |
| 20080603 | With Petroc Trelawny. The programme features South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, and includes tracks from his album Cape Town Revisited. |
| 20080604 | With Petroc Trelawny. The programme features South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, and includes tracks from his album Desert Flowers. |
| 20080605 | With Petroc Trelawny. The programme features South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, and includes tracks from his album Mindif. |
| 20080609 | The featured artist is organist Simon Preston, who is heard in music including Bach's Organ Sonata No 6 in G. |
| 20080610 | The featured artist is organist Simon Preston, who is heard in music including Marcel Dupre's Entree, Meditation, Sortie for organ. |
| 20080611 | The featured artist is Simon Preston, who is heard in music including Handel's Concerto in B flat for organ, for which he is joined by the English Concert under Trevor Pinnock. |
| 20080612 | The featured artist is organist Simon Preston, who is heard in music including William Walton's Crown Imperial, arranged for organ by Herbert Murrill. |
| 20080616 | Presented by Martin Handley. The featured artist is German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is famous particularly for his interpretations of Bach. The programme includes a performance of Bach's Cantata: Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152, in which Quasthoff is joined by soprano Dorothea Roschmann. |
| 20080617 | With Martin Handley. Featuring German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is heard in Brahms's Four Serious Songs and, displaying his lighter side, in music by Duke Ellington |
| 20080618 | Presented by Martin Handley. The featured artist is German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is heard performing operatic arias by Mozart and Beethoven. |
| 20080619 | With Martin Handley. The featured performer is German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is heard performing music very close to his heart. He is well-known for his interpretations of Schubert and Schumann lieder, and the programme features the latter's famous song-cycle, Dichterliebe. |
| 20080623 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artists are the choir Polyphony, heard performing Britten's AMDG with director Stephen Layton. |
| 20080624 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artists are the choir Polyphony, who perform Walton's Coronation Te Deum, with The Wallace Collection and director Stephen Layton. |
| 20080625 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artists are the choir Polyphony, who perform Poulenc's Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence, with their director Stephen Layton. |
| 20080626 | With Petroc Trelawny. The featured artists are the choir Polyphony, who perform John Tavener's Butterfly Dreams, under director Stephen Layton. |
| 20080630 | With Suzy Klein. The featured artsist are the celebrated group Kronos Quartet, who are heard performing music by Golijov. |
| 20080701 | With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, a group celebrated for work in expanding the range of the string quartet, and who are heard performing music by Kevin Volans |
| 20080702 | With Suzy Klein. Featuring the Kronos Quartet, a group that have commissioned many works for string quartet. They perform music by Piazzolla. |
| 20080703 | With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, a group which has collaborated with many different composers from around the world, and who are heard performing music by Terry Riley |
| 20080707 | Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in Monteverdi's sacred concerto Exulta Filia and a Schubert song from the BBC archives. Presented by Petroc Trelawny |
| 20080708 | The featured artist is tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in an excerpt from Berlioz's Les Troyens, as well as a Schubert song from the BBC archives. Presented by Petroc Trelawny |
| 20080709 | Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in songs from Vaughan Williams' setting of poetry by AE Houseman, On Wenlock Edge, and a Schubert song from the BBC archives. Presented by Petroc Trelawny |
| 20080710 | Featuring tenor Ian Partridge, who is heard in clips from Handel's Alexander's Feast, as well as a selection of Schubert songs from the BBC archives. Presented by Petroc Trelawny |
| 20080714 | Featuring French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, in performances of French music. Aimard is well-known for his interpretations of Messiaen's music and he is heard in part of Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus. |
| 20080715 | Featuring French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is heard in German music including Berg's Piano Sonata, and in part of his new CD of Bach's The Art of Fugue. |
| 20080716 | Featuring French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who plays in and directs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 6. |
| 20080717 | Featuring French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is heard in music by Ligeti, a composer with whom he has collaborated closely throughout his career. |
| 20080721 | The featured artist is Olivier Latry, organist of Notre Dame, Paris, who is heard in music by Cesar Franck. |
| 20080724 | With further recordings of featured artist Olivier Latry, organist of Notre Dame, Paris, renowned for his performances of the works of Olivier Messiaen. |