This week's broadcast presents two Grammy Award-winning recordings of Sir Georg Solti and the CSO: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Liszt’s A Faust Symphony, featuring vocal soloist Siegfried Jerusalem and the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

This week's broadcast pays tribute to Pierre Boulez, who served as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 - 1977.

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra to perform Thomas Larcher's cello concerto, returning into darkness. Alan Gilbert also leads the orchestra in Sibelius's Night Ride and Sunrise and Symphony No. 5 in E-flat.

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: "The Art of the Transcription."