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Behind this silver lining is a cloud. How many times have you had sunny midsummer excursion spoiled by severe weather? Beethoven felt your pain and memorialized the experience in a symphony. The North German Radio Symphony, led by Herbert Blomstedt, performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F, the Pastoral Symphony. (North German Radio)

Busoni (boo-ZOH-nee) Bonanza: From her recital at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, last season, pianist Jeni Slotchiver (SLAH-chiv-er) performs two works by Ferruccio Busoni (fer-OO-choh boo-ZOH-nee). First we'll hear his Sonatina No. 6, a chamber-fantasy on Bizet's Carmen. That's followed by a piece from his Seven Elegies for Piano, the Intermezzo: Turandot's Boudoir (TOOR-an-dot's bood-WAHR). (NGA Audio Services)

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)

From a new CD that Time magazine critic Terry Teachout reviews later this hour, pianist Arcadi Volodos (ahr-KAH-dee VOH-loh-dohss) performs two short piano pieces Sergei Rachmaninoff: the Prelude in F minor, Op. 32, No. 3, and the Etude-Tableaux in C-sharp minor, Op. 33, No. 6. (Sony Classical ASK 64384)

Young cellist Alisa Weilerstein's Aspen debut came at the tender age of 14. We'll hear her play Antonin Dvorak's "Forest Quietude," accompanied by her mother Vivian. (EMI Classics 7243 5 73498 2 6)

The Canadian early music ensemble Les Violons du Roy (lay vee-oh-loh(n) doo RWAH--The King's Violins), performs Handel's Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6, No. 10, in concert in the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, New York. (Dorian Recordings)

Corelli at 8000 feet: From high in the Rockies at this year's Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, the International Sejong (SAY-jong) Soloists perform the Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6, No. 4, by Arcangelo Corelli (ahr-KAHN-jel-loh koh-REL-lee). Recorded in concert on July 5th. (Edgar Stanton Audio Recording Institute)

Tchaikovsky without the Orchestra: Critic John Pitcher's been listening to Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 lately, but in a recording that has no conductor, and not even an orchestra. He reviews an new recording of a piano transcription of Tchaikovsky's No. 6, the Pathetique, played by the young Japanese pianist Chitose Okashiro (CHEE-toh-say oh-kah-SHEER-oh).

A Piano Pathetique: From the new CD reviewed by John Pitcher, we'll hear the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, performed in a piano transcription by Chitose Okashiro (CHEE-toh-say oh-kah-SHEER-oh). (Pro Piano PPR 224530)

Diaa Hadid has covered South Asia and Afghanistan from NPR's bureau in Mumbai since October 2023. She previously spent 6 years in NPR's Islamabad bureau, where she covered Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her favorite stories are about people and moments that capture the complexity of the places she covers.