The Philharmonic's celebration of the Leonard Bernstein cententary concludes this week with a playlist program featuring the works of Copland, Barber, Bernstein and others, including his Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.

Jaap van Zweden leads the symphony in Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, recorded live at the 2025 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam. This broadcast also features Claudio Abbado conducting Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, featuring Hanna Schwarz and a 1930 RCA recording of Karl Goldmark’s Ballet Music from The Queen of Sheba, under the baton of second music director Frederick Stock.

First Night of the BBC Proms! Dalia Stasevska leads the BBC Orchestra in Ravel's Piano Concerto in G (Yunchan Lim, piano) and Finzi's For St. Cecilia (Thomas Atkins, tenor), as well as Josephine Stephenson’s That the sunrise not leave us unmoved, Gershwin's An American in Paris, and Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.

Each week Bill explores a different theme in classical music with illuminating commentary and musical examples, over the course of time sampling from all genres and eras of classical music. This week: "String Quartets from Fibich to Sibelius" - Works by lesser-known late-19th-century composers.