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

Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending

Edward Gardner introduces our varied programme of Eastern European music

Michael Zev Gordon introduces his new Violin Concerto with Carolin Widmann

Semyon Bychkov talks about conducting Elektra at the Royal Albert Hall

Janine Jansen talks about Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending

BBC Symphony Orchestra 90th-birthday Montage

Baiba Skride talks about Stravinsky's Violin Concerto

Semyon Bychkov: 'Beloved Friend' Tchaikovsky Project

BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican: Classical for Starters

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