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The Saarbruecken (zahr-BROO-ken) Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Reinhard Goebel (REYEN-hart GE(R)-bel), performs a little-known work from 1779 by German composer Georg Joseph Vogler (GAY-org YOH-sef FOHG-ler): Hamlet: Incidental Music for Orchestra. Recorded last fall in Saarbruecken, Germany. (Saarland Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Festive Grieg: From this year's Schwetzingen (SHVET-sing-gen) Festival in southwest Germany, we'll hear the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in a May 20th performance of the Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg (ED-vard GREEG). (Southwest German Radio/EBU)

From a concert last month at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Rockport, Massachusetts, we hear a performance of the Piano Trio in C major by Franz Joseph Haydn. The players are violinist Andres Cardenes (KAR-den-ness), cellist Anne Martindale Williams, and pianist David Deveau (dev-VOH). (Tom Stephenson's Emmanuel Audio Recording)

From a concert recorded three weeks ago at the Music Hall in Hamburg, Germany, Valery Gergiev (VAH-leh-ree GAIR-gee-ev) conducts the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Symphony in Three Movements by Igor Stravinsky. (North German Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Music for the Kings and Queens of England: The Academy for Old Music, a Berlin-based ensemble, devoted a concert last March at the Schwetzingen (SHVET-sing-en) Festival in Germany to English music. From that concert, we're going to hear the Overture in G major and the Fantasy Upon One Note by Henry Purcell. (Southwest German Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Heroic overture: From a concert on April 24th at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, Germany, we'll hear conductor Horst Stein and the German Symphony Orchestra performing the Overture to the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus by Beethoven. (Sender Freies Berlin/European Broadcasting Union)

An Ode to Rachmaninoff: Rhina Espaillat (REE-nah ESS-pay-yaht) reads her poem Rachmaninoff on the Mass Pike, which was inspired by a performance she heard of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 3. The poem appears in the current issue of Chamber Music magazine.

Music by American composer Arnold Black, who died last Sunday at the age of 77: The St. Petersburg String Quartet performs the second movement of Black's Quartet for Strings,My Country 1998-1999. He composed the piece for the 30th anniversary of the festival he founded, the Mohawk Trail Concerts in Charlemont, Mass., and it was premiered there last July. (Harrison Digital Audio Services) (

Pianist Christopher Basso (BAH-soh) won the Van Cliburn Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs earlier this month. From the competition, we'll hear his performances of the Prelude in G-sharp minor, Op. 32 by Sergei Rachmaninoff and L'Isle Joyeuse (leel zhwah-Y(OO)Z--The Joyous Isle) by Claude Debussy. Basso performed both pieces in recital at the Rockport Festival in Massachusetts last Friday night, where he filled in for an ailing Helene Grimaud (ay-len gree-MOH). (Jim Jackson Recordings)

Chris Benderev is a founding producer of and also reports stories for NPR's documentary-style podcast, Embedded. He's driven into coal mines, watched as a town had to shutter its only public school after 100 years in operation, and, recently, he's followed the survivors of a mass shooting for two years to understand what happens after they fade from the news. He's also investigated the pseudoscience behind a national chain of autism treatment facilities. As a producer, he's made stories about ISIS, voting rights and Donald Trump's business history. Earlier in his career, he was a producer at NPR's Weekend Edition, Morning Edition, Hidden Brain and the TED Radio Hour.