A program of works written mostly by composers when they were teenagers - Mendelssohn's Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto, Strauss First Horn Concerto and Shostakovich's First Symphony.

This week's broadcast from the New York Philharmonic features mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe in John Corigliano's One Sweet Morning, and also performances of Dvorak's Symphony No. 7 and Barber's Essay No. 1 for Orchestra.

From the BBC Proms! Sakari Oramo leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Kurtag's Stele and Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A Minor on this broadcast from the summer festival.

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: "Musical Dynasties" - Musical families, including Gabrieli, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann, Strauss (the Johanns and Richard), and ending with the Haydns: Joseph and Michael.