‘Working with contemporary composers is the main purpose of any company’

• Tuesday, September 27, 2016

One year into his Music Directorship of the Royal Ballet, Koen Kessels is determined to forge relationships with new composers, writes Sarah Kirkup

Watch a free live stream of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro

• Tuesday, September 27, 2016

The live stream from Dutch National Opera is conducted by Ivor Bolton

Playlist: Four Last Songs – when music mirrors life

• Monday, September 26, 2016

Hugo Shirley takes Strauss's Four Last Songs as his starting point for a musical journey

Playlist: Four Last Songs – hailing the soprano voice

• Monday, September 26, 2016

James Jolly uses Strauss's Four Last Songs as a point of departure for exploring the soprano voice

Playlist: The Baroque flute

• Monday, September 26, 2016

Nathaniel Gore explores the varying tone of the flute as the instrument evolved

Playlist: Suicide in opera

• Monday, September 26, 2016

Soprano Anna Prohaska highlights 10 arias sung by characters in extremis

Playlist: Let’s get minimal!

• Monday, September 26, 2016

Jed Distler traces the path of minimalism, from Purcell to Reich

Playlist: British church music

• Monday, September 26, 2016

David Threasher and Geraint Lewis explore some of the finest Anglican music of the 20th century

Playlist: Exploring Max Reger

• Monday, September 26, 2016

Gavin Dixon celebrates the centenary composer’s impressively broad output

Playlist: Ring out those bells!

• Monday, September 26, 2016

Hannah Nepil recommends works whose origins are in the sounds of bell-ringing

Can showmanship and conducting ever go hand-in-hand?

• Thursday, September 22, 2016

Gallery: here comes the Ju Percussion Group

• Thursday, September 22, 2016

Video of the day: watch Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin from Garsington Opera

• Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Starring Roderick Williams as Onegin and Natalya Romaniw as Tatyana

Video of the day: Returning the 'Lost Songs' to St Kilda

• Tuesday, September 20, 2016

James MacMillan travels to St Kilda to play the traditional music that was so nearly lost forever

Video of the day: Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata with Nelson Goerner

• Monday, September 19, 2016

Wonderful insights into Beethoven's masterpiece from the Argentine pianist