Episodes categorised as 'Performances & Events' available now on BBC iPlayer

The Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner perform four Bach motets.

Valery Gergiev conducts the LSO in music by Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky and Dutilleux.

Radio 3 New Generation Artists Francesco Piemontesi, Malin Christensson and Maxim Rysanov.

1/4. The late Richard Hickox conducts music by Elgar, Bach, Rubbra, Ravel and Vaughan Williams.

Takacs Quartet in Haydn's String Quartet, Op 77 No 1, and Bartok's String Quartet No 4.

Powerful classic play set in the early 1960s, centring on the reunion of an Irish family.

3/3. Ivan Hewett interviews young French composer Bruno Mantovani at his home in Paris.

1/2. Lucy Duran presents Malian duo Amadou and Mariam in concert in London's Kentish Town.

Tom Service travels across the English Midlands taking a snapshot of music making.

The BBC SO under Martyn Brabbins in music by maverick American composer George Crumb.

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With composer Howard Goodall and the Vienna Piano Trio.

2/2. Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Semele, starring soprano Rosemary Joshua.

5/5. BBC Philharmonic in music by Pierne and Bartok. Plus Handel Operas 2009: Semele (Act 3).

4/8. Soprano Elizabeth Watts performs Schubert's Fruhlingsreise and Barber's Hermit Songs.

Max Reinhardt joins Fiona Talkington to select seasonal music.

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Christian and Tania Tetzlaff (violin/cello) in Schumann, Mozart.

With Sean Rafferty. La boheme at the Royal Opera House and pianist Garrick Ohlsson.

1/2. Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Semele.

4/5. Louise Fryer presents Acts 1 and 2 of Handel's opera Semele. Plus BBC Performing Groups.

3/8. Tai Murray (violin), Andreas Brantelid (cello) in Mendelssohn, Korngold and Shostakovich.

Fiona Talkington presents music from Kate Rusby, Deolinda and Paul O'Dette.

Takacs Quartet in Beethoven: Quartets in G, Op 18 No 2; F minor, Op 95; B flat, Op 130.

Sean Rafferty presents a Christmas special from the Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House.

From All Saints' Church, Swanton Morley, with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College.

3/5. BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Bax, Alan Bush, Vaughan Williams, Warlock and Finzi.

2/8. Tai Murray, Maxim Rysanov and Anreas Brantelid. Bruch, Mendelssohn and Dobrinka Tabakova.

Fiona Talkington presents some of her favourite tracks of 2009.

The Takacs Quartet begin a cycle of all Beethoven's quartets at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With conductor John Wilson and pianist Julius Drake.

2/5. From Manchester: BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena in Saint-Saens, Mozart and Haydn.

1/8. Ingrid Fliter (piano) and Meta4 perform music by Beethoven and Schumann.

With Fiona Talkington. David Fray in Schubert: Impromptus, Op 90; 6 moments musicaux.

Julia Neuberger gives a lecture about ending prejudice against Britain's senior citizens.

A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead for men.

Psychoanalyst Michael Brearley delivers a talk about the nature of leadership.

A debate about the importance of the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and Wear.

Lisa Jardine on how IVF is changing our ideas about the definition of a family.

Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd at 2009's Free Thinking festival.

Rana Mitter hosts a public debate: Is The West Losing Its Nerve?

Innovative music producer William Orbit presents his personal guide to the world of sound.

Philip Dodd meets psychotherapist Gwen Adshead. Contains some disturbing images.

Ken Livingstone asks an audience in Gateshead if the North-South divide still matters.

2/2. Banning Eyre meets traditional US musicians and singers from around North Carolina.

2009's Free Thinking festival opens with Tanya Byron's vision of the 21st-century family.

1/2. Banning Eyre visits Mount Airy, North Carolina, and talks to folk musician Mike Seeger.