Saturday Classics Clips

1. Did this piece change musical history?

   Duration: 02:33

2. The ultimate music to relax to?

   Duration: 01:35

3. "Music, of all the art forms, has perhaps the most immediate relationship with the now..."

   Duration: 02:07

4. 'A Magical Boat'

   Duration: 01:55

5. Anthony Burgess at 100 - A Clockwork Orange

   Duration: 01:18

6. 'When I hear it, I still break out in a cold sweat...'

   Duration: 01:48

7. Music by ‘a young, little-known composer by the name of… Igor Stravinsky’

   Duration: 01:58

8. Franz Liszt's dance of death

   Duration: 01:34

9. 'A fine example of dance's ability to connect at a level beyond words...'

   Duration: 01:29

10. I'd never been to Berlin before...'

    Duration: 02:36

11. ‘Not purely self-indulgence...’

    Duration: 02:04

12. "Some of the most glorious a cappella harmonisation I’ve ever encountered"

    Duration: 01:25

13. "Perhaps only Verdi can match such late achievements..."

    Duration: 01:28

14. "The most perfect song ever written about the madness of being in love..."

    Duration: 01:44

15. Chris Jarvis describes the 'typewriter' for younger listeners

    Duration: 01:17

16. James Rhodes meets amateur pianists Bryony and Jack

    Duration: 03:13

17. "When I listen to this music what I read is this incredible information overload"

    Duration: 02:15

18. A young Neil Sedaka talks about composing "75 ballads" in a rare archive interview

    Duration: 04:03

19. "This piece...marks the clear limit of my career as a pianist"

    Duration: 02:15

20. "The sense that Russia is in Europe but not of it endures today..."

    Duration: 02:11

21. "It's easy to forget that Soviet censorship was not just about limiting political free speech..."

    Duration: 02:01

22. "I've never forgotton where I was the first time I heard this performance"

    Duration: 02:34

23. "One of the great piano performances of the last 20 years"

    Duration: 01:54

24. "... I have never heard anything so extraordinary in all of my life". Teodor Currentzis' recording of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte.

    Duration: 01:54