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We’re celebrating a birthday on this week’s Dress Circle (2/15 7:00 p.m.).Actually, we’re celebrating two birthdays. This week’s program begins our 43rd year as volunteer hosts of the Dress Circle, a fact of which we’re extremely proud. Since that, in itself, isn’t very musical, we’re also going to be celebrating the 121st birthday of Hyman Arluck who is better known as the fabulous composer of musicals and film songs, Harold Arlen.

Works by David Diamond, Leopold Godowsky, Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns and more.

Piano Concertos by Bach, Saint-Saëns and D'Albert.

American piano works this Friday (2/13, rebroadcast Saturday 2/14)

Comparing different pianists in the same works this Friday (2/20, rebroadcast Saturday 2/21)

Some composers, like Paul Dukas, are best known for one or two specific works, and on this week’s Sunday Opera (2/22 3:00 p.m.), we’re going to change that when we look at his only surviving opera “Ariane et Barbe-Bleue.” The extremely self-deprecating Dukas destroyed his other three operas, so we’re lucky to have this delightful version of the Charles Perrault fairytale.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (2/15 at 2 pm) features works written for the New York Virtuoso Singers.

This broadcast Monday (2/9 at 8 pm) includes the world premiere of a Piano Quintet by Spanish-American compeer/pianist Jorge Tabares.

Younger artists join seasoned chamber music veterans in this concert broadcast Monday (2/16 at 8 pm).