Tonight at 7 pm, Q2 Music at the Proms features the Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra making their BBC Proms debut with music by Witold Lutoslawski, Dmitri Shostakovich and Andrzej Panufnik. 

What happens when pop stars go wild? Sometimes they destroy hotel rooms. Sometimes they buy islands. Sometimes they write classical music. This week's episode of The Brothers Balliett takes a look at some remarkable members of the pop world writing more "serious" music.

Though New York City's Dawn of Midi resembles a jazz trio, their mechanical, textured music has more in common with post-rockers Tortoise or the pensive electronica of Squarepusher than, say, Miles Davis. Hear their Mixtape today at 3 pm.

All this week on Hammered!, pianist David Friend features keyboard music by composers under the age of 40. Listen weekdays at 10 am for music by Chris Cerrone, Judd Greenstein, Ryan Francis, Conrad Tao and more.

Australian pianist Lisa Moore guest-hosts for Phil Kline all this week, offering a survey of her native country's new-music scene, alongside selections of traditional Aboriginal music. Listen weekdays this week at 11 am.

Q2 Music at the Proms features the premiere of Frederic Rzewski's Piano Concerto, the UK premiere of Gerald Barry's No Other People, and pieces by John White and Morton Feldman. 

What do composers Yehudi Wyner, Michel Merlet and Russian-born composer Lera Auerbach all have in common? They've all contributed new examples to the ever-expanding repertoire of music for a solo string instrument with piano—a genre called, for simplicity's sake, the "Sonata."

Combining electronics and found sounds with more conventional orchestration, the music of John Supko often carries an otherworldly quality. Not surprisingly, his Mixtape features music with similar qualities.

This week on Hammered! pianist David Friend examines music by John Cage, Frederic Rzewski and others that takes traditional piano writing as a starting point, but deviates from the basics of traditional technique. Listen weekdays at 10 am.

Last week, Q2 Music at the Proms presented highlights from a London Sinfonietta performance pairing Anna Meredith punk-rock arrangements with modernist masters Edgard Varèse, Iannis Xenakis and Luciano Berio. Listen to the whole show on demand.

Summer is quickly coming to a close. To commemorate the changing of the seasons, the Brothers serve up a final installment of their four-part Summer Symphony Series with music of Aaron Jay Kernis and Charles Wuorinen. Listen today at 3 pm.

For this week's mixtape violinist David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet offers a playlist that jumps freely across time periods and continents, from Erik Satie to Nam June Paik to traditional Scandinavian folk music.

This week on the New Canon, we hear new piano-heavy recordings of works by Timo Andres and Victor Kissine, as well as music from our album of the week featuring Phyllis Chen on toy piano. Listen today at 3 pm.

This week, pianist David Friend continues his Hammered! residency with music for multiple pianos, featuring performances from the British piano sextet Piano Circus, as well as Friend's own piano sextet Grand Band. Listen weekdays at 10 am for music by Steve Reich, Kevin Volans and more.

On Saturday, August 10, Q2 Music at the Proms continued with a performance by the Aurora Orchestra. The ensemble makes its BBC Proms debut with two works by Frank Zappa. Today is the last day to hear the entire show on demand.

For the third installment of their 4-part Summer Symphony Series, the Brothers Balliett feature orchestral music of German composer Hans Werner Henze and American composer Milton Babbitt. Listen today at 3 pm.

The music of California-based singer-songwriter Jolie Holland brings is colored with elements of hushed folk, pre-war swing and film noir soundtracks. She shares music by Morton Feldman, Harry Partch and Egyptian singer-composer Mohammed Obdel Wahab.