Alina Ibragimova joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra to perform the magical Violin Concerto No. 1 by Sergei Prokofiev, which is paired with Carl Nielsen’s shattering Symphony No. 5 for this broadcast.

Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in an all-Mahler program featuring "Blumine", the discarded movement from his first symphony. We'll also hear the only movement written for his Symphony No. 10, and selections from the song cycle "Des Knaben Wunderhorn", with mezzo-soprano, Ekaterina Gubanova; and baritone Simon Keenlyside. (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: "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.