Michael Phillips hosts this holiday special that includes beloved standards like “White Christmas” from “Holiday Inn” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” from “Meet Me in St. Louis”, and an eclectic mix of wintry film scores, like Alexandre Desplat’s folk-inspired score for “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, and Bernard Herrmann’s sleigh ride accompaniment composed for the Orson Welles drama “The Magnificent Ambersons.”

The New York Philharmonic performs Mozart’s last symphonies - Nos. 39, 40 and 41.

This CSO broadcast features a recording of Pierre Boulez leading the symphony in Bartok's "Cantata Profana,” based on a Romanian folk tale about a band of brothers who go on a hunting trip, and are mysteriously turned into stags.

Stanislav Kochanovsky leads the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in a thoroughly Russian program, featuring Leonidas Kavakos in the Violin Concerto No. 2 by Shostakovich, as well as Tchaikovsky’s passionate masterpiece, the Symphony No. 6.

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: "Mozart Piano Concertos."