Principle Clarinet Anthony McGill is the soloist in the Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto. This week's New York Philharmonic broadcast also features Nielsen's Symphony No. 2 and selections from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

Sir Georg Solti leads the CSO in Del Tredici’s Final Alice, featuring soprano Barbara Hendricks. The program also feature Berlioz’s Overture to Les Francs-juges, Dohnányi’s Varations on a Nursery Song (with András Schiff), and Weber’s Overture to Oberon

Daniel Harding leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s symphonic poem The Wild Dove and Stravinsky’s Petrushka. Also on the program is German composer Jörg Widmann’s Horn Concerto, featuring soloist Stefan Dohr.

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: "Tchaikovsky, Part 1" - Bill launches into the first part of a two-part series on the Russian Romantic composer Peter Tchaikovsky. Shunned by some other Russian composers as sounding “too Western”, Tchaikovsky was loved throughout the world as a great Russian composer.