Brett Dean talks about his Trumpet Concerto, Dramatis Personae

Composer Nicola Lefanu takes you through her new piece The Crimson Bird

BBC SO performs Mahler Symphony No. 9

Donald MacLeod talks to conductor Semyon Bychkov about Shostakovich's 7th Symphony

Conductor Laureate Jiří Bělohlávek conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 8

Conductor David Charles Abell salutes a rare treat, Bernstein's Songfest

Denis Kozhukhin talks to Suzy Klein about his career as a pianist and Rachmaninov's 4th piano concerto

Brett Dean talks about how The Last Days of Socrates was conceived as a work for Chorus

Edward Gardner introduces our varied programme of Eastern European music

The BBC SO performs Mahler Symphony No. 6

Vilde Frang on Britten's Violin Concerto

Janine Jansen talks about Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending