From the BBC Proms! Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrate the centenary of Hungary’s greatest living composer, György Kurtág, with a rare performance of his powerful orchestral elegy, Stele. This broadcast from the summer festival also features Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A Minor.

Conductor Marin Alsop guides the SF Symphony through an exhilarating journey that spans the United States, Venezuela, and Mexico. Gabriela Ortiz’s playfully seductive Antrópolis sets the stage while the Venezuelan composer and pianist Gabriela Montero performs her Piano Concerto No. 1, Latin. Paired fanfares by Aaron Copland and Joan Tower join with Samuel Barber’s primal and propulsive Symphony No. 1. (Part of the WFMT Orchestra Series)

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.