Contemporary composer: Lera Auerbach

• Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Pwyll ap Siôn on a Russian-born American polymath whose striking music is inspired by dreams and haunted by other composers

A 21st-century Beethoven symphony cycle

• Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Video: Daniel Barenboim on working with Pierre Boulez

• Friday, March 10, 2017

Barenboim explores what it was like to work with Boulez

Historical female composers: a specialist's guide

• Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Alexandra Coghlan urges us to talk less and listen more when it comes to considering historical female composers, and in her disc selection she avoids the giants, highlighting instead some lesser-known figures

Watch: Bach's Goldberg Variations, introduced by Beatrice Rana

• Monday, March 6, 2017

Inside the recording studio with Rana as she records the Goldbergs

Toscanini: the 20th-century conducting giant who changed the history of recording

• Monday, March 6, 2017

Born 150 years ago, the Italian maestro dominated the gramophone age, making a huge impact across Europe and America. Richard Osborne pays tribute to the musician who defined what it was to be a 20th-century conductor

Top 10 classical music recordings for Easter

• Sunday, March 5, 2017

Easter has prompted some of the greatest works of art in every medium, and music certainly has its share of masterpieces...

Rostropovich: my precious memories of the great cellist and conductor

• Thursday, March 2, 2017

Thomas Beecham: the life and legacy of the conductor

• Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Rob Cowan speaks to musicians who played under Beecham in order to understand what made him such an inspirational conductor

Carlos Kleiber: a guide to the great conductor's lesser-known recordings

• Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Gramophone critic David Gutman examines the reclusive conductor whose legendary career began with his father Erich writing, ‘What a pity the boy is musically talented’

Wilhelm Furtwängler: The Man and Myth

• Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Rob Cowan reflects on the triumphs and controversies of one of the greatest conductors of all

Directing Handel, by Peter Sellars

• Tuesday, February 28, 2017

'Handel possessed an outrageous sense of humour and a stunning sense of theatre...'

Video: Bach's Keyboard Concerto No 1, with Jean Rondeau

• Tuesday, February 28, 2017

A video from the recording sessions of Rondeau's new Editor's Choice album, 'Dynastie'

Top 10 Rostropovich recordings

• Monday, February 27, 2017

Ten essential recordings, featuring Rostropovich as cellist and conductor

Playlist: inspirational castratos

• Monday, February 27, 2017

James Jolly traces the influences of castrato singers on the great composers