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Mother-daughter Act: We'll hear Dvorak's "Silent Woods," played by young cellist Alisa Weilerstein (ah-LISS-ah WEYE-ler-steyen). It's music from her debut recording. Her mother, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, plays the piano. (EMI Classics 7243 5 73498 2 6)

Gounod's First Symphony: We'll hear the companionable First Symphony by French composer Charles Gounod. It starts out like Mozart, and ends with a thrilling tympani roll. We'll hear a top- notch concert performance that the Lausanne (loh-ZAHN) Chamber Orchestra gave last month in Switzerland. Okko Kamu (AWK-kaw KAH- moo) conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. (Swiss Radio/EBU)

Jeremy Dances: We'll hear a preview from this week's artist-in- residence at Performance Today: young American pianist Jeremy Denk. It's a selection from a recital he gave a year ago at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Denk plays the Courante from the Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830, by Johann Sebastian Bach. (Tom Stephenson's Emmanuel Audio Recordings of Boston)

Songs of the Lovelorn: We'll hear the "Hour of the Shepherd," a wry piece by Jean Francaix (zhah(n) frah(n)-SAY). The three movements each have a wry title. There's "The Old Boyfriends," "Pin-up Girls," and "The Nervous Teenagers." It's a performance by members of the Camerata Pacifica. We'll hear flutist Adrian Spence, oboist Andria Ridilla, clarinettist Emily Bernstein, bassoonist John Steinmetz, horn player Steve Becknell, and pianist Joanne Pearce Martin. It's from a concert they gave April 6th in Santa Barbara, California. (Opus One Mobile Recordings of Santa Barbara)

Emersons in Portland: We'll hear the Emerson String Quartet from a concert it gave March 6th at Lincoln Hall Auditorium at Portland State University, in Oregon. The group performs one of Haydn's last string quartets--his Quartet in G major, Op. 77, No. 1. We'll also hear an encore, the slow movement of Samuel Barber's String Quartet, also known as the Adagio for Strings. (Roderick Evenson Recordings)

Handel fit for a King: From a concert last month in Ann Arbor, Michigan, The King's Violins perform the Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op. 6, No. 4, by George Frideric Handel. Bernard Labadie conducts. (Bob Skon/Michigan Radio)

Listening to music is not always love at first hearing. Commentator Linda Kobler comes to grips with how she used to hate Chopin, but now she likes him, and how her husband was reviled by music by John Adams. That is, until he heard it 6 times.

Piano Discovery: From a concert on February 6th at Lincoln Theater in Miami Beach, Florida, we're going to hear a performance of the "Wanderer" Fantasy by Franz Schubert. The performance features pianist Pietro (PYAY-troh) de Maria, one of many pianists who participated at this year's Miami International Piano Festival of Discovery. (Simon Soong Recording)

King's Bonus: As a bonus, we'll hear more from the concert the King's Violins played last month at the University of Michigan. It's the Chaconne (shah-KOHN) in G minor by Henry Purcell (PER-sell). (Recorded by Bob Skon and Michigan Radio) 6:00.

Handel's Birds: We'll hear a concert performance from the Canadian group called Les Violons du Roy (lay vee-oh-loh(n) doo RWAH), or The King's Violins. It's the Concerto Grosso in F, Op. 6, No. 9, by Handel. They played it March 22nd at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. The second movement features some musical bird calls. (Recorded by Bob Skon and Michigan Radio).