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Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

The Orsino Ensemble play wind music by Barber, Nielsen and a UK premiere of Mark Simpson's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Plus, Gabriela Montero's 'Latin Concerto'.

Donald Macleod meets the friends (and foes) of composer Clara Schumann. Today, we hear how her husband Robert was entranced from the moment he first heard her play.

Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva on the London piano festival. James Baillieu on his appointment as Artistic Director of the Two Moors Festival from 2028.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.

The celebrated Italian pianist Beatrice Rana performs works by Debussy, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky in a recital from the Sala Sinopoli in Rome.

Five musicians offer an intimate, soloist's-eye-view of some of classical music's masterpieces.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

Broadcaster, jazz singer and actor Jumoké Fashola is sitting in for Soweto Kinch this week, and tonight she welcomes her Flowers guest, cellist and singer Ayanna Witter-Johnson.