Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä leads the CSO in Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony and Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto featuring Daniil Trifonov. The program also features two historic RCA recordings: Dvořák’s Carnival Overture and Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess, both under sixth music director Fritz Reiner.

This week's New York Philharmonic program features dance-themed works conducted by David Robertson and Alan Gilbert.

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is joined by Augustin Hadelich, who shines in Samuel Barber’s pensive and songful Violin Concerto. Also on the program, Valerie Coleman’s exploration of freedom and unity, Umoja, and the Third Symphony by pioneering composer, Florence Price.

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: "Johannes Brahms" - A two-week biography exploring the music and life of a defining voice of the German Romantic Era..