Brett Dean talks about the sound world of The Last days of Socrates

Composer Nicola Lefanu takes you through her new piece The Crimson Bird

Leila Josefowicz talks about working with Luca Francesconi on his violin concerto 'Duende'

Edward Gardner introduces our varied programme of Eastern European music

Antoine Tamestit and Veronika Eberle

Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending

Baiba Skride talks about Stravinsky's Violin Concerto

Sakari Oramo talks about the Last Night of the Proms

Conductor Laureate Jiří Bělohlávek conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 8

Ryan Wigglesworth discusses his piece Etudes-Tableaux

Brett Dean talks about his relationship with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Donald MacLeod talks to conductor Semyon Bychkov about Shostakovich's 7th Symphony