Music, Classical

John Ireland: Epic March Music While You Work - The Sounds of Wartime Broadcasting Sincerely Yours - Music by 'The Forces' Sweetheart Vera Lynn Clifton Parker: Seascape from Western Approaches Richard Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto William Walton: Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario arr. Christopher Palmer World…

• Directed by: Jac van Steen (cond)
• Written by: Prokofiev

Jac Van Steen conducts Bartok's Piano Concerto No 3 and Prokofiev's Symphony No 7. With pianist Igor Revit.

• Directed by: Christoph Koenig (cond)
• Written by: Dvorak

Christoph Konig conducts Dvorak's Othello, Concert Overture, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 and Brahms's Symphony No 4, with Lara Melda, piano.

• Directed by: Thomas Sondergard (cond)
• Written by: Mahler

Thomas Sondergard conducts Huw Watkins's Violin Concerto and Mahler's Symphony No 5. With violinist Alina Ibragimova.

• Directed by: John Storgards (cond)
• Written by: Sibelius

John Storgards conducts Sibelius's Symphony No 1 and his Symphony No 5.

• Directed by: John Storgards (cond)
• Written by: Sibelius

John Storgards conducts Sibelius's Symphony No 4 and his Symphony No 2.

• Directed by: Sir Andrew Davis (cond)
• Written by: Delius

Andrew Davis conducts Elgar's Pomp And Circumstance March No 5, Delius's Legende and Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending and A London Symphony. With violinist Tasmin Little.

Toru Takemitsu: Green (November steps II) Toru Takemitsu: Marginalia Toru Takemitsu: I hear the water dreaming for flute & orchestra Interval György Ligeti: San Francisco Polyphony György Ligeti: Violin Concerto A concert showcasing the vibrant music of Ligeti and Takemitsu, two composers that…

• Directed by: David Hill (cond)
• Written by: Eric Whitacre

David Hill conducts Copland's In The Beginning, Eric Whitacre's Three Songs Of Faith, Waternight and his Sleep, plus Reich's The Desert Music, with Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano.

• Directed by: Nicholas Kok (cond)
• Written by: Sir Harrison

Nicholas Kok conducts Gustav Holst's Choral Hymns from The Rig Veda, Imogen Holst's Hallo, My Fancy, Whither Wilt Thou Go? and Sir Harrison Birtwistle's The Moth Requiem.

• Directed by: Paul Brough (cond)
• Written by: Gesualdo

Paul Brough conducts Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories, Paul Crabtree's Tenebrae Responsories On Songs By Bob Dylan, Ravel's Trois Chansons, Vitols's The Castle Of Light, Bernard Hughes's The Death Of Balder and Kodaly's Matra Pictures.

Sarah Chang is the featured soloist in a true American classic: Barber's Violin Concerto, which appears directly after another one, the same composer's mournful Adagio for Strings. Lastly, Copland's Symphony No 3 is conducted by David Alan Miller of the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

Sarah Chang is the soloist in Barber's Violin Concerto, plus there's Tsontakis' Let the River Be Unbroken, a musical panorama the American Civil War, and Copland's rousing Symphony No 3, as stirring a piece of post-war optimism as has ever been written, climaxing as it does with the ever-popular Fanfare for the Common…

Miss this one and you may not get another chance for years: first there's the UK premiere of very hip young US composer Sean Shepherd's Blue Blazes, then Gershwin's Piano Concerto with soloist Freddy Kempff, and to round it all off in high style, Charles Ives' seldom-played Symphony No 2, one of those big ol' American…

Quintet of brass players from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Musical classics from the big screen, conducted by Matt Dunkley and presented by Jamie MacDougall.

Christmas favourites presented by Jamie MacDougall and conducted by Stephen Bell.

Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony was the first major work by its composer and for all its rambling nature, it was a breath of salty air in English music of the time – and considerably more interesting, in its way, than Beethoven's fine but rather Mozart-y Piano Concerto No 1, here performed by Steven Osborne. Andrew Manze…

When Dvořák wrote his Cello Concerto, it was partly to prove to himself that he could write one at all; the result is one of the best-loved works in the repertoire. Here it's paired with Talich's arrangement of the suite from Janáček's Cunning Little Vixen and Bartok's sombre Concerto for Orchestra. Joshua Roman is the…

American cello star Alisa Weilerstein okays Elgar's Cello concerto, plus there's Berlioz's Overture: Le Corsaire and Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4. Donald Runnicles conducts.

Aaron Kernis' Newly Drawn Sky is a popular work by this respected American neo-romantic, and it's paired here with Grieg's Piano Concerto featuring Lars Vogt. Finally, Shostakovich's Symphony No 1 is full of youthful high spirits. Donald Runnicles conducts.

Donald Runnicles conducts Beethoven's Symphony No 4, Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1 with soloist James Ehnes, and Adams' jazz symphony City Noir.

Britten's Quatre chansons françaises features soprano Elizabeth Watts, who also returns at the end for the concert's climax: Mahler's poised (and, for him, relatively concise) Symphony No 4. In the meantime, there's Britten's Gloriana: Symphonic Suite. Martyn Brabbins conducts.

German Japanese maestro Jun Märkl conducts Messiaen's seldom-heard Les Offrandes Oubliées and Poèmes Pour Mi with soprano Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, followed by Debussy's hypnotic Images.

Copland's Quiet City features Mark O'Keeffe and James Horan on trumpet and cor anglais respectively; then Steven Osborne is the soloist for Beethoven's good-humoured Piano Concerto No 2. Finally, Schumann's fate-defying Symphony No 2. Andrew Manze conducts.