Main content

Essential Classics Episodes

  1. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Jon Snow

    With Artist of the Week: Jordi Savall, featured conducting Beethoven's Symphony No 3.

  2. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Jon Snow

    Artist of the Week: Jordi Savall, directing Monteverdi's Madrigals of War and Love.

  3. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Jon Snow

    Artist of the Week: Jordi Savall, featured conducting Lawes's Consort Sett a 5 in C minor.

  4. Monday - Sarah Walker with Jon Snow

    With Artist of the Week: Jordi Savall, featured conducting Bach's Orchestral Suite No 4.

  5. Friday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

    Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli, featured conducting Liszt's A Faust Symphony.

  6. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

    Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli, featured conducting part of Strauss's Salome, Op 54

  7. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

    Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli, featured conducting Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1

  8. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

    Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli, featured conducting Schumann's Symphony No 2.

  9. Monday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

    Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli, featured conducting music by Schubert and Webern.

  10. Friday - Rob Cowan with Kasper Holten

    Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli, featured performing music by Bizet and Giordano.

  11. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Kasper Holten

    Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli, in music by Stefano Donaudy and Agustin Lara.

  12. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Kasper Holten

    Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli, featured performing music by Rossini and Verdi.

  13. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Kasper Holten

    Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli, featured in music by Mascagni and Leoncavallo.

  14. Monday - Rob Cowan with Kasper Holten

    Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli. With Puccini's E lucevan le stelle (Tosca).

  15. Friday - Sarah Walker with David Hepworth

    Artist of the Week: trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger, featured in HK Gruber's 3 MOB Pieces.

  16. Thursday - Sarah Walker with David Hepworth

    Artist of the Week: Hakan Hardenberger, featured performing Hummel's Trumpet Concerto.

  17. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with David Hepworth

    Artist of the Week: trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger, featured playing Takemitsu's Paths.

  18. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with David Hepworth

    Artist of the Week: Hakan Hardenberger, featured in Part's Concerto Piccolo on B-A-C-H.

  19. Monday - Sarah Walker with David Hepworth

    Artist of the Week: Hakan Hardenberger, featured in Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat.

  20. Friday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom

    Including Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Elgar's Violin Concerto

  21. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom

    With Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Nielsen's Violin Concerto.

  22. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom

    With Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Brahms's Violin Sonata No 1.

  23. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom

    Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2.

  24. Monday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom

    With Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Korngold's Violin Concerto.

  25. Friday - Rob Cowan with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

    With Artist of the Week: Arturo Toscanini, featured conducting Elgar's Enigma Variations.

  26. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

    With Artist of the Week: Arturo Toscanini, featured conducting Wagner's Gotterdammerung.

  27. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

    Artist of the Week: Arturo Toscanini, conducting Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1.

  28. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

    With Artist of the Week: Arturo Toscanini, featured conducting Beethoven's Symphony No 7.

  29. Monday - Rob Cowan with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

    Artist of the Week: Arturo Toscanini, featured conducting Debussy's Iberia.

  30. Friday - Sarah Walker with Joan Bakewell

    With Artist of the Week: Dinu Lipatti, featured in Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor.

  2. 1
  3. …
  4. 80
  5. 81
  6. 82
  7. 83
  8. 84
  9. …
  10. 130