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It’s an afternoon of some “interesting” relationships on this week’s Sunday Opera (6/1 3:00 p.m.) with Ivar Hallstrom’s “Duke Magnus and the Mermaid” and Louis Spohr’s treatment of “Beauty and the Beast” (“Azore et Zamire”).

Schumann's Toccata, Prophet Bird and Etude Variations, plus works by Beethoven, Brahms and Bach.

Music of Franz Liszt, This Friday (5/30, rebroadcast Saturday 5/31)

Although Giacomo Meyerbeer was one of the most celebrated composers during his lifetime and wrote some sixteen operas, many of his works often go overlooked. We’re going to remedy that, a bit, on this week’s Sunday Opera (5/25 3:00 p.m.) with a recording of his last work, “L’Africaine” or “Vasco da Gama” in its edited final version.

Comparative performances of a Liszt Transcendental Etude, as well as works by Lecuona, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. (With an encore broadcast Sunday 5/11).

Happy May! As always, we’re celebrating the month by looking at some of the musicals that opened in New York this month on this week’s Dress Circle (5/4 7:00 p.m.). The list of May openings is not extensive because of Tony nominations and voting. The cut-off for nominations this year was April 27th, so a show opening after that would be eligible for the following year’s award if the nominating committee and voters remembered it. We still have eleven shows represented, spanning 119 years of musical history.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (5/17 at 2 pm) features two contemporary settings of this hymn.

Members of Bard College's The Orchestra Now perform works by Kaija Saariaho and Alberic Magnard on this broadcast Friday (5/16 at 8 pm).