This week's broadcast features a Strauss double bill - Don Quixote with violist Cynthia Phelps and cellist Carter Brey, conducted by Bernard Haitink, and Ein Heldenleben, with violinist Frank Huang and conductor Alan Gilbert.

Paavo Järvi leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Ludwig van Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and Carl Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony.

Simon Rattle leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Francisco Coll’s vibrant Piano Concerto, with soloist Kirill Gerstein, as well as Roberto Gerhard’s Dances from Don Quixote, Poulenc’s Les Biches, and Debussy’s La Mer.

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: "Get the Picture" - Works inspired by well-known paintings and poems, including Goyescas, by Enrique Granados, a musical impression of Francisco Goya’s paintings, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Hindemith’s Matthias der Maler, and Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead.