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Essential Classics Episodes

  1. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    With Rob Cowan. With Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw and music by Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

  2. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Proms Artist of the Day: pianist Martha Argerich, featured performing Ravel's Jeux d'eau.

  3. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Proms Artist of the Day: Mark Elder. With Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos 2 and 3

  4. Monday - Rob Cowan with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Proms Artist of the Day: Thomas Ades, who conducts Couperin's Les barricades mysterieuses.

  5. Friday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

    Including Proms Artist: Paul Watkins (cello), in Martinu: Variations on a Slovak Folksong.

  6. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

    With Proms Artist of the Day: BBC NOW, performing Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique.

  7. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

    Proms Artist of the Day: Hakan Hardenberger, featured in Telemann's Trumpet Concerto.

  8. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

    Proms Artist: Esa-Pekka Salonen, featured conducting Beethoven's Leonore Overture No 2.

  9. Monday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

    Proms Artist of the Day: Thomas Dausgaard, conducting Schubert: Overture (Die Zauberharfe)

  10. Friday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson

    Proms Artist of the Week: cellist Alban Gerhardt, in Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Op 125

  11. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson

    Including Proms Artist of the Week: Alban Gerhardt, featured in Alkan's Cello Sonata in E.

  12. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson

    With Proms Artist of the Week: Alban Gerhardt, featured in Reger's Cello Suite No 3.

  13. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson

    Proms Artist of the Week: cellist Alban Gerhardt, in Enescu's Symphonie concertante, Op 8.

  14. Monday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson

    Proms Artist of the Week: cellist Alban Gerhardt, featured in Faure's Cello Sonata No 1.

  15. Friday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Alistair McGowan

    Artist of the Week: Sarah Connolly, featured in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (final scene).

  16. Thursday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Alistair McGowan

    Includes Artist of the Week: Sarah Connolly, featured in Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben

  17. Wednesday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Alistair McGowan

    Proms Artist of the Week: mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, featured in music by Handel.

  18. Tuesday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Alistair McGowan

    With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: Sarah Connolly, in Brahms and Hahn.

  19. Monday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Alistair McGowan

    With Sarah Walker. Proms Artist of the Week: Sarah Connolly, in Elgar's Sea Pictures.

  20. Friday - Rob Cowan with Alan Ayckbourn

    With Artist of the Week: conductor Marc Minkowski in Mehul's Symphony No 1.

  21. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Alan Ayckbourn

    With Artist of the Week: conductor Marc Minkowski in Handel's Il delirio amoroso.

  22. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Alan Ayckbourn

    With Artist of the Week: conductor Marc Minkowski in Schubert's Symphony No 9 (Great).

  23. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Alan Ayckbourn

    With Artist of the Week: conductor Marc Minkowski in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

  24. Monday - Rob Cowan with Alan Ayckbourn

    With Artist of the Week: conductor Marc Minkowski in Charpentier's Te Deum.

  25. Friday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

    With Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo in Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.

  26. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

    With Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo in Bloch's Suite symphonique.

  27. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

    With Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo in Nielsen's Symphony No 3.

  28. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

    With Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo in Sibelius's Tapiola.

  29. Monday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

    With Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4.

  30. Friday - Sarah Walker with Chris Riddell

    Artist of the Week: Marc-Andre Hamelin, in Haydn's Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, H XI 36.

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