In Tune Highlights

Conductor of The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, talks to Suzy Klein about their Choral Pilgrimage and taking music back to the buildings it was originally composed for.

Marin Alsop on conducting at the "big party celebrating classical music" - the Last Night of the Proms

Conductor Lorin Maazel on his 51 year association with the Vienna Philharmonic, opera staging, and his own Castleton Festival in Virginia.

Mighty Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel on his new album, new record label, and how to beat jetlag.

One of the greatest singers on the planet, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato on singing at the Last Night of the Proms, kickboxing, frocks and the great Dame Janet Baker.

'The Maltese Tenor', Joseph Calleja, talks to Sean Rafferty about why he chose to pursue opera, the sporting career he abandoned, and serenading girls beneath their windows. He sings Verdi arias at the BBC Proms, before appearing at this year's Proms in the Park, and his new album of romantic Mediterranean songs, Amore, is out now.

Poet Paul Muldoon pays tribute to his friend and fellow Irish poet, the great Seamus Heaney

Actor, writer and director Simon Callow talks to Sean about getting Inside Wagner's Head.

British Jazz original Django Bates talks to Sean Rafferty ahead of his Prom celebrating American Jazz legend Charlie Parker.

The legendary mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker on her extraordinary life and career, on the day she celebrates her 80th birthday.

Highlights from In Tune for the week 12-16 August, presented by Sean Rafferty. Featuring interviews with Broadway singer Maria Freedman on Sondheim & Bernstein, conductor Valery Gergiev on his Proms appearance, Peter Phillips on Renaissance music, Suzy Klein talking to the Spooky Men's Chorale about getting Australian men to sing, and novellist Alexander McCall Smith discussing his writing at the In Tune special from Edinburgh Festival.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conductor Ilan Volkov returns to the Proms to conduct a programme of experimental music.

Tenor Mark Padmore and baritone Jacques Imbrailo on Britten's Billy Budd at Glyndebourne plus Proms guests: sitar virtuoso Nishat Khan, composer Mark-Anthony Turnage on the world premiere of his new piece 'Frieze', conductor Vasily Petrenko and trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth.

Everyone's favourite 'bad boy' violinist, Nigel Kennedy, is performing yet another reinterpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Proms. This podcast has an exclusive look behind-the-scenes at a rehearsal, and Sean talks to Nigel about why he's still returning to the piece that brought him fame and admiration from across the world.

Sean Rafferty interviews Proms artists: conductor Daniel Harding; violinist Daniel Hope; conductor Sian Edwards; pianist Nicolai Lugansky; and violinist Vadim Repin.

Clarinettist Emma Johnson and pianist Pascal Roge on their love of French music; conductor Daniel Barenboim and director Justin Way on staging the first full Ring cycle at the Proms; and soprano Clara Mouriz on her forthcoming Proms debut.

At the age of 21, Daniel Harding made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic and became the youngest conductor to appear at the Proms. Now, at 37, he talks about being a wunderkind and why critical reviews no longer bother him, ahead of his two BBC Proms.

Spanish mezzo soprano Clara Mouriz talks to Sean about her Proms performance with Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic, and accompanist Joseph Middleton discusses concert dress and how to play the piano in flipflops.

Historian David Starkey with a sneak preview of his new TV series Music and Monarchy, star trumpeter Alison Balsom on performing at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, brothers Huw and Paul Watkins on their musical upbringing and Stockhausen's muse, Kathinka Pasveer on the Proms premiere of Mittwoch aus 'Licht'.

Young Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki on making his BBC Proms debut, working with conductor Sir Antonio Pappano and icecream from a certain luxury department store.