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A Jolly Good March: From concert in July at the Kissinger (KISS-ing-er) Summer festival in Germany, we're going to hear Lawrence Foster and the French National Orchestra perform the Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 by Edward Elgar. (Bavarian Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Bach in Texas: The acclaimed Freiburg (FREYE-boorg) Baroque Orchestra from Germany takes Bach on the road to Houston, Texas. We'll hear the Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major from a concert the group gave last month at Rice University. (KUHF, Houston)

Stuttgart Fantasia: Roger Norrington conducts the Stuttgart (SHTOOT-gahrt) Radio Symphony in the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Recorded September 22nd at the Liederhalle (LEE-der-HAH-leh) in Stuttgart, Germany. (Southwest German Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Strauss in Germany. From a concert last May in Saarbrucken (zar-BROO-ken), Germany, we're going to hear the members of the Raphael Ensemble perform the String Sextet by Richard Strauss. (Saarbrucken Radio/EBU)

Brahms Double: Violinist Jaime (JAY-mee) Laredo and his wife, cellist Sharon Robinson, are the soloists in the Concerto in A minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra by Johannes Brahms. Michael Stern conducts the Saarbruecken (zahr-BROO-ken) Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert recorded in June at Congress Hall in Saarbruecken, Germany. (Saarland Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

The ensemble New Duesseldorf Court Music performs a piece by 18th-century French composer Joseph Touchmoulin (zho-sef toosh-moo-LA(N)): the Sinfonia in C. Recorded last spring in Augustusburg Castle in Bruehl, Germany. (West German Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

NPR's Kenneth Walker reports from Ivory Coast where opposition leader Laurent Gbagbo seized control yesterday after military president Robert Guei fled the capital during massive public demonstrations. But the new government now faces protests by supporters of candidates barred from last week's elections.

Three-part Schumann: Robert Schumann called this work his "Symphonette." >From a concert this June at the Kissinger Summer Festival in Germany, Wolfgang Sawallisch (VOHLF-gahng sah-VAH-lish) leads the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Schumann's Overture, Scherzo and Finale. (Bavarian Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Struming in New England: Guitarist David Leisner's career was sidelined during the 1980's due to a hand injury. We caught up with the guitarist--who's now fully recovered--at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. From a concert at the school's Jordan Hall, we'll hear Leisner performing four pieces by the 19th-century Austrian composer and guitarist Johann Kaspar Mertz: "Elegy," "Fingal's Cave," "Yearning" and "Tarantella." (New England Conservatory of Music).

An American in Germany: Los Angeles-born conductor Lawrence Foster takes the National Orchestra of France on a road trip to Germany. From this year's Kissinger (KISS-ing-er) Summer festival, Foster leads the orchestra in "An American in Paris" by George Gershwin. (Bavarian Radio/European Broadcasting Union)