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In July, the musicians at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, Texas performed a concert that was "Basically Beethoven." From that performance, Michelle Reed Baker, horn, and Matthew Everett, piano, perform the composer's Sonata in F major for Horn and Piano, Op. 17. (Matthew Snyder Recordings)

Pianist Carlo Grante plays Ferruccio Busoni's (feh-ROOTCH-yoh boo-ZOH-nee's) piano transcription of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Recorded in concert last July at the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island. (Benchmark Recordings)

Eiji Oue (AY-jee OH-way) conducts the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra in a performance of the Symphony No. 31, the "Hornsignal" Symphony, by Franz Joseph Haydn. Recorded in concert on July 14th at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village, Wyoming. (Richard Mintel Recordings)

Offenbach over the border: The French National Orchestra and conductor Lawrence Foster take a trip to the Kissinger (KISS-ing-er) Summer festival in Germany. From a July 14th concert we'll hear a few numbers from the ballet "Gaite Parisienne" (geh-tay pah-reez-YEN). The music is by Jacques Offenbach (OHF-en-bahkh), arranged by Manuel Rosenthal. (Bavarian Radio/EBU)

"Carmen" Without Borders: The French National Orchestra helped some German neighbors celebrate Bastille Day with this performance of the "Carmen" Fantasy -- music from Georges Bizet's (zhorzh bee-ZAY) opera arranged into a concert piece for trumpet and orchestra by Franz Waxman. It's from a concert on July 14th at the Kissinger Summer festival in Bavaria, conducted by Lawrence Foster with trumpeter Wolfgang Bauer. (Bavarian Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

What Sergei Prokofiev Did in the Summer of '43: Violinist Robert McDuffie and pianist Orli Shaham (or-LEE shah-HAHM) play Prokofiev's Violin Sonata in D. Their performance was recorded in July of the summer of 2000 at the Aspen Music Festival. (Aspen Audio Institute)

When the 19th-century composer and violinist Ludwig Spohr invented the violin chin rest, he invented modern violin playing. From a concert on July 3rd at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, we'll hear violinists Kurt Nikkanen (nik-KAH-ken) and Gil Morgenstern perform the Duo for Two Violins in D major by Spohr. (Media Production Associates)

We'll hear a Divertimento in B-flat for winds most often attributed to Franz Joseph Haydn. Johannes Brahms borrowed the chorale tune in its second movement for his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn." The performance, recorded in late July at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, features flutist Timothy Day, oboist Harry Sargous, clarinetist Fred Ormand, hornist David Krehbiel and bassoonist Benjamin Kamins. (Opus One Mobile Recordings)

Sailor's Holiday: Leonard Bernstein's "On the Town," a tale of three sailors on a brief shore leave, was a Broadway smash in 1944. From a July concert in Berlin, Kent Nagano (nah-GAH-noh) conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Three Dance Episodes from Bernstein's hit show. (German Radio, Berlin/European Broadcasting Union)

>From this year's Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado, we'll hear a performance of the Divertimento in B-flat for winds by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The oboists are Stephen Taylor and Matthew Dine, the horn players are Stewart Rose and Christopher Caudill, and the bassoonists are David Carroll and Julie Feves. (David Wilson Recordings)