Schubert: Symphony No. 9 'Great'

Stephen Johnson explores Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C 'Great'.

• 20 mins

Beethoven's Symphony No. 7

Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.

• 20 mins

Holst: The Perfect Fool

Stephen Johnson explores Holst's The Perfect Fool.

• 20 mins

Schubert: Symphony No. 5

Stephen Johnson explores Schubert's Symphony No. 5.

• 20 mins

Bruckner: Symphony No 2

Stephen Johnson explores Bruckner's Symphony No 2 in C minor.

• 20 mins

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8

Stephen Johnson explores Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony.

• 20 mins

Bach: St Mark Passion

Stephen Johnson examines the sources of Bach's setting of the St Mark Passion.

• 20 mins

Bach: Mass in B minor

How Bach the devout Lutheran set about producing a mass in the Catholic tradition.

• 20 mins

Dvorak: Piano Quartet No. 2

Stephen Johnson explores the intricacies of Dvorak's Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat.

• 20 mins

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Act 3)

Stephen Johnson explores Act 3 of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.

• 20 mins

Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem

Stephen Johnson explores Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem.

• 20 mins

Tippett: Symphony No. 2

Stephen Johnson explores Tippett's Symphony No. 2.

• 20 mins

John Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony

Stephen Johnson explores John Adams' Doctor Atomic Symphony.

• 20 mins

Faure's Piano Quartet No 1

Stephen Johnson explores Faure's Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor.

• 20 mins

Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits

Stephen Johnson analyses Vaughan Williams's Five Tudor Portraits.

• 10 mins

Bizet's Symphony in C

Stephen Johnson explores the colourful world of Bizet's Symphony in C.

• 20 mins

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Stephen Johnson explores the unique sounds of Stravinsky's The Right of Spring.

• 20 mins

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 9 'Razumovsky'

Stephen Johnson explores the musical language of Beethoven's third Razumovsky Quartet.

• 20 mins

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7

Stephen Johnson explores Prokofiev's seventh and final symphony.

• 20 mins

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

Stephen Johnson explores Sibelius's Seventh Symphony.

• 20 mins

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Stephen Johnson explores themes of triumph and doubt in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

• 20 mins

Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Stephen Johnson explores what Mahler's songs can tell us about his Symphony No. 5.

• 20 mins

Mozart's Clarinet Quintet

Stephen Johnson explores Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A, K581.

• 20 mins

Sound of Cinema: On the Waterfront

Stephen Johnson explores On the Waterfront, Leonard Bernstein's only true film score.

• 20 mins

Brahms and Berg Piano Sonatas

Stephen Johnson compares the first published works of Brahms and Berg, both piano sonatas.

• 20 mins

Mozart: Requiem

Stephen Johnson explores Robert Levin's recompletion of Mozart's Requiem.

• 20 mins

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3

Stephen Johnson explores the emotional heart of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3.

• 20 mins

Debussy: Images

Stephen Johnson explores the musical paintings created by Debussy in Images.

• 20 mins

Reich's The Desert Music

Stephen Johnson explores visions of nuclear armageddon in Steve Reich's The Desert Music.

• 20 mins

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony

Stephen Johnson separates storytelling & autobiography in Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony.

• 20 mins