Music without borders

• Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Icons – Antal Dorati

• Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Rob Cowan profiles the Hungarian-born American conductor and composer who made a difference wherever he went and left a vast and varied recording legacy

Icons – Grigory Sokolov

• Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Harriet Smith enters the rarefied and reclusive world of the Russian-born, Italian-based pianist who shuns the studio and is known to music lovers mainly for his live recordings

Icons – Robert Thurston Dart

• Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Edward Breen pays tribute to an early music pioneer – a highly regarded musician, recording artist, musicologist and lecturer who left a legacy that we are still enjoying today

Icons – Gundula Janowitz

• Tuesday, March 22, 2016

The soprano Elizabeth Watts pays tribute to a fellow singer who made a huge impact on her as a teenager and whose pure, silvery voice opened her ears to a whole new repertoire

Music for Easter

• Monday, March 21, 2016

Icons – Emma Kirkby

• Monday, March 21, 2016

Lindsay Kemp profiles the well-loved soprano who in the early days of period performance defined what an early music voice was – and whose sound continues to compel today

Icons – Stephen Kovacevich

• Monday, March 21, 2016

Geraint Lewis pays tribute to a true ‘pianist’s pianist’ and a complete musician – one who is as much at home on the podium as he is at the keyboard

Icons – Friedrich Gulda

• Monday, March 21, 2016

The Austrian ‘terrorist pianist’ was equally comfortable in both jazz and classical music. Philip Clark dispels the myths surrounding an artist who was entirely sure of his own vision

Icons – Anna Moffo

• Monday, March 21, 2016

Mike Ashman champions the versatile, charismatic, no-nonsense American soprano who had a natural way of making herself heard and could leave her sound forever etched on the memory

Icons – Leonid Kogan

• Monday, March 21, 2016

Tully Potter celebrates the greatest violinist he ever heard in concert, the Soviet player Leonid Kogan, whose rare talent is happily well represented on a host of recordings

Icons – The Busch Quartet

• Monday, March 21, 2016

They were first heard a century ago and their Beethoven recordings surpass all others. Tully Potter pays tribute to the Busch Quartet

Top 10 Janáček recordings

• Friday, March 18, 2016

In any gathering of the finest recordings of Janáček's music, one particular conductor's name is always going to loom large...

Inside Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass

• Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Conductor Tomáš Netopil talks to Hannah Nepil about finding the true spirit of Janáček

Who’s to blame for ENO’s woes? You are

• Tuesday, March 15, 2016