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Sunday Morning Episodes

  1. Rivers, lakes and seas

    Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside. Music by Ravel, Barber, Mendelssohn, Liadov, Elgar.

  2. 27/07/2008

    Iain looks at contraptions composers have invented to enliven their sound palettes.

  3. 20/07/2008

    Iain considers the relationship between politics and music. Including music by Ligeti.

  4. Death

    Iain looks at the influence of death and bereavement on composers.

  5. 06/07/2008

    Music includes Busoni's All'Italia, Berlioz's Harold in Italy and Elgar's In the South.

  6. Iain Burnside - Celebrating Summer

    Including Tippet: Dances from The Midsummer Marriage and Sorabji: Transcendental Studies.

  7. 22/06/2008

    Iain considers the influence of landscape on music, focusing on Bax, Howells and Messiaen.

  8. 15/06/2008

    For a Father's Day special, Iain is joined by poet Jo Shapcott.

  9. 08/06/2008

    Iain explores the science of music, focusing on works by Borodin, Elgar and Hindemith.

  10. 01/06/2008

    Iain is live from the Guildhall, Bath, with guests Joanna MacGregor and cellist Tim Hugh.

  11. 25/05/2008

    Focusing on Vienna and the music and musicians who have come from the city.

  12. Iain Burnside

    Iain talks to pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet about Chopin's pianistic influence on Paris.

  13. 11/05/2008

    Looking at the notion of musical recycling, with music including Britten's Lachrymae.

  14. 04/05/2008

    With works inspired by the month of May, including Berio's Folk Songs.

  15. 27/04/2008

    Choreographer/director Will Tuckett selects music by Vaughan Williams and Stravinsky.

  16. 20/04/2008

    With Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre. Featuring music by Frank Bridge.

  17. 13/04/2008

    Debating the question that if architecture is frozen music, how does it sound?

  18. 06/04/2008

    With a programme on the theme of food and gluttony that includes music by Bach and Weill.

  19. 30/03/2008

    Iain ponders the relationship between music and sexuality.

  20. 23/03/2008

    Iain presents a programme focusing on the themes of war and peace.

  21. 16/03/2008

    To mark St Patrick's Day, Iain presents a selection of Irish-themed works.

  22. 09/03/2008

    Including Elgar's Piano Quintet, Prokofiev's opera The Gambler and music by Haydn and Weir

  23. 02/03/2008

    With music inspired by Russia's turbulent history, including Lyadov's The Enchanted Lake.

  24. 24/02/2008

    Iain and painter Tom Phillips admire musical portraits by Messiaen and Mozart.

  25. 17/02/2008

    Iain Burnside and Marcus Du Sautoy explore the connections between music and mathematics.

  26. 10/02/2008

    Including Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2.

  27. 03/02/2008

    With music including Schumann's Faschingswank aus Wien and Berlioz's Le carnaval romain.

  28. 27/01/2008

    Iain is joined by musicologist Erik Levi to look at the Nazis' relationship with music.

  29. 20/01/2008

    Iain Burnside explores the enduring legacy of Scotland's best-loved poet, Robert Burns.

  30. 13/01/2008

    Iain takes to his sick-bed with works by CPE Bach and Gabrieli, plus the Mozart Requiem.

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