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Christmas in Prague: We'll hear the "Czech Christmas Mass" by Jakub Jan Ryba (YAH-kuhb YAHN RIH-buh). It's a performance given in Prague last year, in the week before Christmas. The soloists include soprano Martina Bauerova (mar-TEE-nah bough-row-VAH), mezzo-soprano Pavla Vykopalova (PAHV-fla VRY-kuh-pah-loh-VAH), tenor Tomas Cerny (ta-MAHSH cher-NYEE), and baritone Vratislav Kriz (VRAH-tee-slav KRHEETS). We'll also hear the Kuhn (KOOHN) Mixed Chorus and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Ondrej Kukal conducts. (Norwegian Radio/Czech Radio/EBU)

Tetzlaff's Brahms: Christian Tetzlaff (TETS-lahf) brings his buttery violin tone to music of Johannes Brahms. We'll hear him play Brahms' Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor. It's from a performance recorded in June at Leitheim (LEYET-heyem) Castle in Germany. Lars Vogt (LAHRZ FOHT) is at the piano. (Bavarian Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Romantic Piano. From a concert last March in Germany, we're going to hear pianist Robert Leonardy along with Michael Stern and the Saarbrucken (zhar-BROO-ken) Radio Symphony Orchestra perform the Introduction and Allegro Appassionato for Piano and Orchestra by Robert Schumann. (Saarbrucken Radio/EBU)

Mozart Marathon: Last year, pianist Michael Endres (MEEKH-ah-el EN-dress) performed all 18 of Mozart's piano sonatas at a series of concerts near Bonn, Germany. We're going to hear one of those works, the Piano Sonata No. 7 in C major, K. 309. (West German Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Romanian romp: From a concert on July 14th at the Kissinger (KISS-ing-er) Summer Festival in Germany, we'll hear conductor Lawrence Foster and the French National Orchestra in a performance of the Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 by Georges Enesco (zhorzh en-NESS-koh). (Bavarian Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Do American conductors help themselves when they head to Europe to start their careers? Fred puts the question to an American in Paris, James Conlon, who headed to Europe in the 70s and is now general music director of the city of Cologne, Germany and the principal conductor of the Paris Opera.

Mozart Marathon: Last year, pianist Michael Endres (MEEKH-ah-el EN-dress) performed all 18 of Mozart's piano sonatas at a series of concerts near Bonn, Germany. We're going to hear one of those works, the Piano Sonata No. 9 in A minor, K. 310. (West German Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Our guest later this hour, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, plays the Recitative and Gavotte from the opera "Manon" (mah-NOH(N)) by Jules Massenet (zhool mah-seh-NAY). (RCA 09026-68817-2)

Haydn for Cello: Hungarian cellist Miklos Perenyi (MEE-kl(oh)sh pay-RAY-nyee) takes on a concerto written in his homeland -- the cello concerto in D major by Joseph Haydn. We'll hear a performance Perenyi gave this spring in Saarbrucken (zhar-BROO-ken), Germany. Michael Stern conducts the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra. (Saarland Radio/European Broadcasting Union) 27:56.

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra performs music by Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (YAHN DIZ-mahss ZEL-EN-kah): the overture "Hippocondrie" (ee-poh-koh(n)-DREE--"Hypochondria") in A major. Recorded last spring at the Schwetzingen (SHVET-sing-en) Festival in Germany. (Southwest German Radio/European Broadcasting Union)