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

Contemporary Composer – Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

• Monday, March 14, 2016

Arnold Whittall celebrates a great British composer and recommends some key recordings

Dvořák’s Fifth Symphony – which recording is best?

• Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Dvořák’s Fifth is the first wholly personal masterwork in his symphonic canon. Andrew Achenbach separates the great performances on disc from the merely good

Handel's 'other' trio sonatas

• Monday, March 7, 2016

Nikolaus Harnoncourt's greatest recordings

• Monday, March 7, 2016

So many of Harnoncourt's recordings are highly regarded that it would be impossible to come up with a definitive list of his 'greatest', but those included here are all essential listening...

Joby Burgess - percussion pioneer

• Friday, March 4, 2016

Piecing together a Donizetti jigsaw

• Thursday, March 3, 2016

In a world of choice, we all need a little listening help

• Tuesday, March 1, 2016