Top 10 classical recordings with Irish connections

• Friday, March 17, 2017

From Thomas Roseingrave to Gerald Barry, this selection of recordings shows the diversity of music-making in Ireland

Derek Walcott | My Music: ‘Even if my knowledge is limited, in terms of appreciation, Mozart swings!’

• Friday, March 17, 2017

The Nobel Prize-winning poet on opera writing, music and Caribbean speech melodies

Video: a perfect match – Bach on a Stradivari violin

• Thursday, March 16, 2017

Samuel Staples plays the 'Ex-Croall; McEwen' made by Antonio Stradivari in 1684, and now offered for sale

Contemporary composer: Nico Muhly

• Thursday, March 16, 2017

Kate Molleson charts the inexorable rise of Philip Glass’s former assistant, who has gone on to become one of the most sought after and commissioned composers of his generation

Contemporary composer: Christopher Fox

• Thursday, March 16, 2017

Philip Clark champions a British composer whose music is impossible to categorise

Contemporary composer: Georg Friedrich Haas

• Thursday, March 16, 2017

Philip Clark on the Austrian composer championed by today’s great maestros

Contemporary composer: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• Thursday, March 16, 2017

A powerful understanding of the symphony orchestra makes the Finnish conductor an inspiring composer, finds Arnold Whittall

Contemporary composer: David Lang

• Wednesday, March 15, 2017

The Los Angeles native creates music of pristine beauty through the pared-down purity of his scores, says Kate Molleson

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...