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Young cellist Alisa Weilerstein's Aspen debut came at the tender age of 14. We'll hear her play Antonin Dvorak's "Forest Quietude," accompanied by her mother Vivian. (EMI Classics 7243 5 73498 2 6)

Bach at the top: Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt joins 3 other pianists in this recording of J.S. Bach's Concerto in A minor for 4 pianos. Christoph Eschenbach (KREE-stawf ESH-en-bahkh) conducts the Hamburg Philharmonic. (DG 415 655-2)

Satie on Parade: Erik Satie's satirical ballet called Parade premiered in 1917, with sets by Picasso and a story by the famous writer, critic and film director Jean Cocteau (zhah(n) kohk-TOH). From a concert earlier this month at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, in Texas, we'll hear the ballet performed in by the Texas Festival Orchestra under the direction of Pascal Verrot (pahss-kahl vair-ROH). (Matthew Snyder Recordings)

The Canadian early music ensemble Les Violons du Roy (lay vee-oh-loh(n) doo RWAH--The King's Violins), performs Handel's Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6, No. 10, in concert in the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, New York. (Dorian Recordings)

Corelli at 8000 feet: From high in the Rockies at this year's Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, the International Sejong (SAY-jong) Soloists perform the Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6, No. 4, by Arcangelo Corelli (ahr-KAHN-jel-loh koh-REL-lee). Recorded in concert on July 5th. (Edgar Stanton Audio Recording Institute)

Tchaikovsky without the Orchestra: Critic John Pitcher's been listening to Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 lately, but in a recording that has no conductor, and not even an orchestra. He reviews an new recording of a piano transcription of Tchaikovsky's No. 6, the Pathetique, played by the young Japanese pianist Chitose Okashiro (CHEE-toh-say oh-kah-SHEER-oh).

A Piano Pathetique: From the new CD reviewed by John Pitcher, we'll hear the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, performed in a piano transcription by Chitose Okashiro (CHEE-toh-say oh-kah-SHEER-oh). (Pro Piano PPR 224530)

Violinist Jorja Fleezanis (flee-ZAH-niss) leads an ensemble of 16 young string players at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, near Houston, in the Langsamer Satz (LAHNG-zahm-er ZAHTS--Slow Movement) by Anton Webern (VAY-bairn). Recorded on June 30th in the Festival Concert Hall, Round Top, Texas. (Matthew Snyder Recordings)

Sax Concerto: Miles says the saxophone is still struggling to gain prominence in the classical field even though composers such as Claude Debussy and Darius Milhaud (dah-ree-ooss mee-YOH) began writing music where the saxophone got top billing.

Ringmaster Frederick Fennell and the Eastman Wind Ensemble take us under the big top with Boy Scouts of America, by Edwin Franko Goldman, and Thomas S. Allen's Whip and Spur. (Mercury 432 019-2)