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KATE REMINGTON IS HOST HOUR 1 A Beethoven opener: Pianist Robert Taub plays the second movement of the Piano Sonata No. 10 by Ludwig van Beethoven. Milestones of the Millennium--Ludwig van Beethoven. His life had all the makings a tragedy, and he himself said that he was bad at everythingexcept music. In today's Milestones of the Millennium, we'll focus on the life and music of Beethoven, starting at the very beginning: John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra in the first movement of the composer's Symphony No. 1. Milestones of the Millennium--Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven in perspective: Author and commentator Jan Swafford offers his thoughts on the life and music of Beethoven. Swafford asks the question "How could a life so chaotic and torn contain an art so magnificent and whole?" Milestones of the Millennium--Ludwig van Beethoven. Music from Beethoven's so-called middle-period: pianist Maurizio Pollini (moh-REETS-yoh poh-LEE-nee) performs the opening movement from the Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, the "Waldstein" (VAHLT-shteyen). Milestones of the Millennium--Ludwig van Beethoven. Late Beethoven: The Emerson String Quartet performs the final three movements of Beethoven's seven-movement String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, completed in 1826, the year before his death. A Die-Hard Fan: Composer Claude Debussy was so excited by Edouard Lalo's (ay-doo-ahr lah-LOH's) ballet "Namouna" (nah-MOO-nah) that he had to be ejected from the theater at its premiere. We'll hear David Robertson conduct the Monte Carlo Philharmonic in the Balcony Scene and Dance of the Slaves from that ballet. Chopin in Newport, Rhode Island: We'll hear a performance of Frederic Chopin's Etudes, Op 25, Nos. 8-12, by pianist Augustin Anievas (aw-goo-STEEN ahn-YAY-vahss). Recorded in concert last month at the lavish Marble House in Newport. Marble House was built by members of the Vanderbilt family as a "cottage" to escape the summer heat of New York. We'll travel to the Spoleto Festival in Italy for a performance by the Eroica Trio of the Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 7, by Edouard Lalo. The group began its performance in the 19th-century theater on Spoleto's Piazza Duomo just after the church bells chimed noon on July 12th. Waltzing in Berlin: From a concert at Berlin's famous Waldbuhne (VAHLT-boo-neh) amphitheater, conductor Kent Nagano (nah-GAH-noh) leads the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of "La Valse" (lah VAHLSS--"The Waltz") by Maurice Ravel (moh-reess rah-VEL).

Brahms in the wilderness: From a concert on July 22nd at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming, we're going to hear conductor Ling Tung and the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra perform the Symphony No. 2 in D major by Johannes Brahms. (Richard Mintel Recordings)

Pianist Frederic Chiu performs the La Ricordanza (ree-kor-DAHN-zah) Variations, Op. 33, by Carl Czerny (CHAIR-nee). Recorded in concert on July 17th at The Breakers as part of this year's Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island. (Benchmark Recordings)

Impressions of Seattle. From a concert on July 19th at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, we'll hear a quartet of musicians -- violinists David Kim and Scott Yoo, violist Marcus Thompson and cellist Toby Saks -- perform the String Quartet in G minor by Claude Debussy. (Bill Levey Recordings)

Shostakovich out west: From this wear's Music Academy of the West, the Academy Festival Orchestra performs the Symphony No. 6 by Dmitri Shostokovch. The conductor is Graeme Jenkins. Recorded in concert on July 8th at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, California. (Opus 1 Mobile Recordings)

Members of the Caramoor Virtuosi--pianist Andre Armstrong, violinist Ayako Yoshida (ay-YAH-koh yoh-SHE-dah) and cellist Edward Arron--play the Adagio for Piano Trio by Arvo Part (PAIRT). Recorded on July 5th in the First (Scots) Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina, as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival 2000. (Paul Jacoby Recordings)

C.P.E. Bach on High: From 8000 feet up in the Colorado rockies, cellist Lynn Harrell and the International Sejong (SAY-jong) Soloists perform the Cello Concerto in A-major by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The concert was recorded on July 5th at this year's Aspen Music Festival. (Aspen Music Festival Audio Institute)

A pretty darned important Bach discovery: Just when we thought that there was nothing more to learn about Johann Sebastian Bach, new information has surfacedin a lake. Pages from a long-lost diary written by the composer's last and least-known son, P.D.Q. Bach, have just been discovered in--of all places--North Carolina by Professor Peter Schickele (SHIK-kel-lee). He'll read P.D.Q.'s entry from July 29th, 1750, which concerns his father's death the day before.

A pretty darned important Bach discovery: Just when we thought that there was nothing more to learn about Johann Sebastian Bach, new information has surfaced...in a lake. Pages from a long-lost diary written by the composer's last and least-known son, P.D.Q. Bach, have just been discovered in--of all places--North Carolina by Professor Peter Schickele. He'll read P.D.Q.'s entry from July 29th, 1750, which concerns his father's death the day before.

Bach Week begins: This Friday, July 28th, marks the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. All this week we'll pay tribute to this great composer. We'll begin with Bach for orchestra: Leopold Stokowski (stoh-KAWFF-skee) conducts the Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra in his transcription of the Sarabande from John Sebastian Bach's Violin Partita No. 1. Russian pianist Vladimir Feltsman has devoted most of his time during the last decade to music by J.S. Bach. We'll hear him perform four preludes and fugues from the composer's Well-Tempered Clavier in concert. Recorded in late June at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. (Edgar Stanton Audio Recording Institute)