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

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

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

Janine Jansen talks about Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending

Antoine Tamestit and Veronika Eberle

Michael Zev Gordon introduces his new Violin Concerto with Carolin Widmann

Ingrid Fliter talks about the BBC Proms

BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican: Classical for Starters

Brett Dean - the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Artist in Residence

Katerina Karneus talks about Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Conductor Sir Andrew Davis and cellist Paul Watkins introduce Finzi's Cello Concerto

Sir Andrew Davis on Ravel's Daphnis & Chloe