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From the Shwetzingen Festival in Germany, the Jerusalem Quartet performs the String Quartet No. 1 by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. We'll also hear them perform an encore from the same concert: the third movement of Franz Schubert's String Quartet No. 14, Death and the Maiden. Recorded in concert in May 2000. (Southwest German Radio/EBU)

The New York-based Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performs J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. Recorded in concert on May 20th at the Schwetzingen (SHVET-sing-en) Festival in Germany. (Southwest German Radio/EBU)

Violinist Joerg-Michael Schwarz (YURG-MEYE-kel SHWARTS) and the New York Collegium perform Die Fechtschule (dee FEKHT-shoo-leh--The Fencing School) by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (YOH-hahn HEYEN-rikh SHMELT-ser). We'll also hear an encore: the Presto from Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto Alla Rustica. Recorded in concert on March 12th at Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. (WGBH, Boston)

Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 is performed by the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The performance was recorded in concert last May at the Schwetzingen (SHVET-sing-en) Festival in Germany. (Southwest German Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Commentator Jan Swafford offers his thoughts on the importance and lasting contributions of Johann Sebastian Bach, a man who, Swafford says, "revealed the full scope of what our music can achieve." Music from the capstone of Bach's creativity: the Mass in B minor. Philippe Herreweghe (fee-LEEP HEH-reh-VEH-geh) conducts the Collegium Vocale (koh-LAY-gee-oom voh-KAH-lay) in the Sanctus and Dona nobis pacem (DOH-nah NOH-bees PAH-chem) sections. (Harmonia Mundi HMC 901615)

From a concert on May 1st at the Schwetzingen (SHVET-sing-gen) Festival in Germany, Nicholas McGegan (mc-GEE-gan) conducts the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the Suite from the Opera Dardanus (dahr-dah-NOOSS) by Jean-Philippe Rameau (zhah(n)-fee-leep rah-MOH). (Southwest German Radio and the EBU)

A trio of musicians from the Vienna String Sextet performs the Bagatelle for two violins and viola from Drobnosti (DROHB-nohs-tee--Miniatures) by Antonin Dvorak. Recorded in concert in May at the Schwetzingen (SHVET-sing-en) Festival in Germany. (Southwest German Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

From one of the CDs that PT critic Ted Libbey will recommend later this hour, we'll hear the Gloria from the Notre Dame Mass by composer Guillaume de Machaut (gee-yohm deh mah-SHOH). Jeremy Summerly condicts the Oxford Camerata. (Naxos 8.553833)

Pianist Christopher Basso (BAH-soh) performs the spookily atmospheric Sunken Cathedral by Claude Debussy. Recorded in concert on June 23rd at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts. (Emmanuel Audio)

Mozart at sea level: From the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Rockport, Mass., the Shanghai String Quartet performs the String Quartet No. 20 in D, K. 499, the Hoffmeister Quartet, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Recorded June 30th at the Rockport Art Association. (Emmanuel Audio Recording)