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Behind the music of our favourite TV shows

Next on: Thu 24 May at 2:00PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

Alchemists Of Sound takes a look at the most memorable sound effects of our time

Giacomo Puccini’s La Fanciulla Del West

Next on: Thu 24 May at 2:00PM , Sky Arts 2 HD

The Met Opera's take on Puccini’s atmospheric American West

In Search of Mozart

Next on: Fri 25 May at 5:00AM , Sky Arts 2 HD

Mozart's life explored in a feature-length documentary

A selection of the greatest arias

Next on: Fri 25 May at 5:50AM , Sky Arts 2 HD

Performers include Yvonne Kenny, Orla Boylan, Eva Martin and many more

Darbar Festival 2011

Next on: Fri 25 May at 6:00AM , Sky Arts 2 HD

The biggest event of its kind outside of India

Alison Balsom The Trumpet's Splendour

Next on: Fri 25 May at 12:15PM , Sky Arts 2 HD

Documentary following the award-winning solo trumpeter featuring spectacular performances by Bach, Debussy and Haydn

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Sky Arts 1 HD Clive James and Jeremy Isaacs 1.00PM Sky Arts 2 HD Tales Of The Unexpected 1.00PM

John Adams’ Nixon In China

Next on: Fri 25 May at 2:00PM , Sky Arts 2 HD

The Met Opera's take on Adams’ American opera, Nixon In China

An insight into an inspiring musician and person

Next on: Fri 25 May at 5:20PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound documents why Baez is not simply an 'American Master' but a world-class one

From The Basement

Next on: Fri 25 May at 7:00PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

Your backstage pass to intimate performances from Thom Yorke, The White Stripes, Jarvis Cocker and more.

Harry Connick Jr. In Concert

Next on: Fri 25 May at 9:00PM , Sky Arts 2 HD

The American sensation performs classics on Broadway

Video Games Live

Next on: Fri 25 May at 9:00PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra performs the soundtracks to some of the world’s greatest video games

Next on: Fri 25 May at 10:30PM , Sky Arts 2 HD

Bin-banging, tub-tapping, paint can-pounding show live from Brighton

Is it love all over again?

Next on: Sat 26 May at 6:00AM , Sky Arts 1 HD

Celebrities rediscover their first musical love

Could you live by art alone?

Next on: Sat 26 May at 7:00PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

Art of Survival sends four adventurers on a race from Athens to Edinburgh, but does their art get them to the finish line?

Think you know metal music?

Next on: Sat 26 May at 9:00PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

Metal Evolution explores the roots of this multi-generational phenomenon

Billy Idol in Super Overdrive

Next on: Sun 27 May at 1:50AM , Sky Arts 1 HD

The rebel rocker reunites with guitarist Steve Stevens for this electric 2009 live concert

John Lydon rants about wrongs of the world

Next on: Sun 27 May at 5:00AM , Sky Arts 1 HD

PiL frontman and former Sex Pistol 'Johnny Rotten' gets critical In Confidence

Gotterdammerung

Next on: Sun 27 May at 2:00PM , Sky Arts 2 HD

Wagner's Ring Cycle tetralogy comes to a dramatic climax in this performance of Gotterdammerung

The South Bank Show

Next on: Sun 27 May at 10:00PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

One of the world's most respected arts shows serves up a gourmet platter of top arts practitioners

Haydn: Orlando Paladino

Next on: Mon 28 May at 1:00AM , Sky Arts 2 HD

The renowned Freiburger Barockorchester's take on Haydn's comic opera

The rise and fall of the Blue Note

Next on: Mon 28 May at 7:00AM , Sky Arts 2 HD

Two-part documentary following the rise and fall of jazz label Blue Note

Darbar Festival 2008

Next on: Mon 28 May at 12:00PM , Sky Arts 2 HD

'Britain’s best festival of South Asian music' brings together Indian classical music maestros from around the world

Christoph Willibald Gluck's Iphigenie En Tauride

Next on: Mon 28 May at 2:00PM , Sky Arts 2 HD

The Met Opera's take on Gluck's Greek mythology-inspired Iphigenie En Tauride

The life and art of Chopin

Next on: Mon 28 May at 7:00PM , Sky Arts 2 HD

The documentary Fryderyk Chopin looks into the genius of the eponymous composer, from his early life to his death

Queen Rock Montreal

Next on: Mon 28 May at 10:00PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

Freddie and co perform a blistering set of hits

Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

Next on: Tue 29 May at 2:00AM , Sky Arts 2 HD

The Met Opera's take on Mussorgsky's intense masterpiece

Jo Whiley Meets Michael Stipe

Next on: Tue 29 May at 9:00PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

In an exclusive interview, the R.E.M. frontman reveals all about the rock band's 2011 break-up

Iron Maiden rock Rio

Next on: Tue 29 May at 11:35PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

Steel your senses for the full-scale metal assault that is Iron Maiden Live

Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale

Next on: Wed 30 May at 2:05AM , Sky Arts 2 HD

The Met Opera's take on Donizetti's comic opera Don Pasquale

Iron Maiden are Live After Death

Next on: Wed 30 May at 9:50AM , Sky Arts 1 HD

The heavy metal pioneers rock the stage on their 1985 World Slavery tour in this electrifying live concert

Gioachino Rossini's Le Comte Ory

Next on: Wed 30 May at 2:00PM , Sky Arts 2 HD

The Met Opera's take on Rossini's rarely heard comedy

Queen: The Phenomenon

Next on: Wed 30 May at 10:00PM , Sky Arts 1 HD

A rockumentary examining the British sensation

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