Conductor Susannah Malkki leads the L.A Phil in Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beatrice Rana, piano), Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy and Kaija Saariaho's Vista.

Herbert Blomstedt conducts the Second Symphony of Brahms, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
(Bertrand Chamayou, piano) and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

From the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, directed by guest conductor Ariane Matiakh, performs both Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheharazade, and Ravel's Sheherazade – ouverture de feerie, and Sally Beamish's Hive (Catrin Finch, harp)

This week's program includes Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Prokofiev's Classical Symphony and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor (as performed by Nathan Milstein).

Michael Barone hosts this program featuring music from the diverse repertoire for the organ.

Host Robert Aubry Davis explores the sources and mainstreams of European music for the thousand years before the birth of Bach.

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: Game of Pairs (Part 1) - Explore the ways in which composers learn from the musicians who came before them, such as how Vivaldi influenced a young JS Bach, or the influences of Schumann in Brahms’s third symphony.

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