This week's program features five of the orchestra's principle players as concerto soloists, including Paul Langevin in Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, Anthony McGill in Copland's Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, and Frank Huang in Barber's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 14.

With songs about drinking in a tavern, springtime seduction, and the allures of gluttony and fortune, Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" doesn't hold back. Osmo Vänskä leads this colorful cantata based on medieval poetry on this week's CSO broadcast.

Khatia Buniatishvili performs Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra Fabio Luisi also conducts Sørensen's Evening Land and Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D (“Titan”).

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: "Symphonies Numbered Nine" - Bill takes a cross-section of the symphonic art form with symphonies numbered “nine," ranging from the young Mozart to the older Beethoven and into the nineteenth century, with compositions by Roger Sessions and Roy Harris.