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Telemann amidst splendor: From a concert last March in the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles near Paris, we're going to hear the Limoges Baroque Orchestra perform music from the Paris Quartet No. 6 by Georg Philipp Telemann . (Radio France/EBU)

Pianist Katia Skanavi has been captivating audiences the world over since 1997, when she was named a finalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas. From a concert on October 6th at the University of Georgia, we're going to hear Skanavi in a performance of the Serious Variations by Felix Mendelssohn. (ACA Digital Recordings and Horton Systems Company)

Satie on Parade: From this summer's Round Top Festival in Texas, Pascal Verrot (pah-skahl veh-ROH) conducts the Texas Festival Orchestra in the ballet "Parade" by Erik Satie (sah-TEE). (Matthew Snyder Recordings)

Royal Fiddles in Troy: One of America's finest concert halls, the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, New York, celebrated its 125th anniversary in April. From a concert at the hall last spring, the Canadian early music ensemble Les Violons du Roy (lay vee-oh-loh(n) doo WAH--The King's Violins), performs George Frideric Handel's Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6, No. 10. We'll also hear an encore, "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from the oratorio "Solomon" by Handel. (Dorian Recordings)

Basic Enigma. PT Basic Record Librarian Ted Libbey adds the "Enigma" Variations by Edward Elgar to the collection, and lists his top picks on compact disc.

Going Up?: Conductor Edo de Waart (AY-doh deh VAHRT) races the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to the top floors, with a performance of Graeme Koehne's (KUH-neh's) "Elevator Music." Recorded in concert at Symphony Hall in Boston. (WGBH, Boston/Antonio Oliart-Ros Recordings)

In July, the musicians at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, Texas performed a concert that was "Basically Beethoven." From that performance, Michelle Reed Baker, horn, and Matthew Everett, piano, perform the composer's Sonata in F major for Horn and Piano, Op. 17. (Matthew Snyder Recordings)

Well-Tempered Kapilow: Commentator, conductor and composer Robert Kapilow shows us there's a lot going on inside a simple-sounding Bach prelude. He'll demonstrate with the Prelude No. 6 in D minor from J.S. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier," Book One.

And for a complete example of what Robert Kapilow demostrated, Brazilian pianist Joao Carlos Martins (zhoh-WOW KAR-lohss mar-TEENZ) plays J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D minor from "The Well-Tempered Clavier," Book One. (Tomato 2699132)

Russian Round Top: Sergei Prokofiev once referred to his Fifth Symphony as the culmination of his long creative life. From a concert on June 24th at the Round Top Festival in Texas, we're going to hear conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Texas Festival Orchestra in a performance of Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major. (Matthew Synder Recordings)