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A Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival performance of the"Ars Nova Suite," -- a collection of Italian caccia, ballata, madrigale, and canzone from the 14th and 15th centuries. Compoer Noel Stevens put them together for a modern woodwind quintet, played here by Tara Helen O'connor, flute; Allan Vogel, oboe; Lori Lovato, clarinet; Lynette Diers Cohen, bassoon, and Julie Landsman, French Horn. (Alpine Recordings)

SUSAN STAMBERG IS HOST HOUR 1 From Bach to Bach: Good composers sometimes steal from themselves. Violinists Isabelle Faust, Muriel Cantoreggi (kan-tor-REH-jee) and Christoph Poppen collaborate on the "Allegro" (ah-LEH-groh) movement from J.S. Bach's Concerto for Three Violins. Bach arranged the music from his own Concerto for Three Harpsichords. The soloists are joined by members of the Stuttgart Bach-Collegium. Liszt-O-Mania: Franz Liszt was well known for his flashy, knuckle-busting piano pieces. From this Summer's Newport Music Festival, pianists Frederic Chiu (CHOO), Carlo Grante (GRAHN-tay), Piers Lane and Hamish Milne pair off for just such a piece--Liszt's "Grand Gallop Chromatique" (kroh-mah-TEEK) arranged for eight hands on two pianos. Haydn on the shore: From the seaside music festival called SummerFest La Jolla (lah HOY-yah), just north of San Diego, pianist Wu Han, violinist William Preucil, and cellist David Finckel perform the Piano Trio No. 18 in A-major by Franz Joseph Haydn. The concert was recorded on August 6th. Raff from Roundtop: Music by the forgotten composer Joachim Raff (yoh-AH-keem RAHF) got the spotlight in a June concert at the Roundtop Music Festival in Roundtop Texas. The Dorian Quintet joins five other wind players in a performance of the Sinfonietta (sin-fohn-YEH-tah) for Two Wind Quintets by Joachim Raff. HOUR 2 Vanhal (VAHN-hahl) for Four: Oboist Sarah Francis teams up with three friends from the Tagore (tah-GORE) String Trio for a performance of the second movement from the Oboe Quartet by Johann Baptist (bahp-TEEST) Vanhal. From an August 9th concert at the 2000 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, a performance of the Wind Quintet in B-flat, Op. 56, No. 1 by Franz Danzi. The performers are Santa Fe veterans Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Allan Vogel, oboe; Franklin Cohen, clarinet; Lynette Diers Cohen, bassoon, and Julie Landsman, French Horn. More from Santa Fe: The energetic Minuetto from the Sextet in D major, Op. 110, by Mendelssohn, recorded in concert July 30th by this year's crop of Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival musicians. Basic Brahms: Critic Ted Libbey drops by to recommend recordings of the Symphony No. 1 by Johannes Brahms for the PT Basic Record Library. The Brahms First has a special connection with host Susan Stamberg. From one of Ted's recommended recordings, we'll hear the final movement of the Brahms First Symphony in a performance by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Istvan Kertesz (EESHT-vahn KAIR-tez).

SUSAN STAMBERG IS HOST HOUR 1 Lighter side of Telemann: The baroque ensemble called Musica Antiqua (MOO-sih-ka an-TEE-kwah) of Cologne performs three short movements from the Divertimento (dih-ver-tih-MEN-toh) in B-flat major by Georg Philipp Telemann (GAY-org TELL-eh-mahn). C.P.E. Bach in old Santa Fe: From the ongoing Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico, flutist Carol Wincenc (WIN-sense) is front and center in a Flute Concerto in D minor, written in 1747 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Coming to Terms with reeds: They may be small but they're vital to the sound of instruments from the clarinet to the oboe to the saxophone. In this edition of Coming to Terms, PT commentator Miles Hoffman joins Susan to explain how reeds work and why they're so labor-intensive. Zelenka (zeh-LEN-ka) for reeds: From the ongoing Santa Fe Chamber Music festival in New Mexico, oboists Allan Vogel and Thomas O'Connor, plus bassoonist Lynette Deers Cohen team up with double bassist Margie DAHN-ih-loh, and harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh for the Sonata No. 1 in F for 2 oboes and bassoon by Jan Dismas Zelenka (YAHN DIS-mahss zeh-LEN-ka). HOUR 2 The French Keyboard: Harpsichordist John Payne plays "La Forqueray" (la for-kair-RAY) by French baroque keyboardist, composer, and teacher Jacques Duphly (doo-FLEE). From a concert on August 5th at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming, cellist Sharon Robinson joins Jaime Laredo and the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra to perform the Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33 by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. Bassoonist Milan Turkovic and the members of the Borromeo Quartet perform the Divertissement for Bassoon and String Quartet by Jean Francaix. It's from a concert last month at the Chamber Music Festival Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Like a lot of prominent musicians in the 20th century, P-T commentator Rob Kapilow once studied with the famed teacher Nadia Boulanger. In this segment, Kapilow remembers a lesson he received from Boulanger about Mozart. Pianist Maria Joao Pires performs the first movement from the Piano Sonata in A minor, the "Tragic" Sonata, by Mozart.

Lutenist Paul O'Dette (oh-DET) breaks out his baroque guitar for a set of dance tunes by adventurous Spanish composer Santiago de Murcia (sahn-tee-YAH-goh day moor-SEE-ah). From a February recital at the University of Georgia, in Athens, O'Dette performs a Passacaglia (pah-sah-KAHL-yah), a Fandango, and a Gigue (ZHEEG). (ACA Digital Recording/Horton Systems)

The Boston Brass plays the Entry of the Guests from the opera Tannhauser by Richard Wagner. The performers are Richard Waddell and Jeff Conner, trumpets; J.D. Shaw, french horn; Ed Clough, trombone; and Andrew D. King, tuba. (Summit Records DCD 272)

The short-tempered P.D.Q: Pianist Christopher O'Riley plays two preludes and fugues fromThe Short-Tempered Clavier by P.D.Q. Bach--a.k.a. composer Peter Schickele (SHIK-kel-lee). Later this hour, Schickele shares his newest P.D.Q. Bach discovery with us. (Telarc CD-80930)

Milestones of the Millennium: Bach's St. Matthew Passion. St. Matthew Passion, Part One: J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion has been called the most imposing musical monument ever devoted to one of the gospels. Guiding us on a journey through the Passion are: tenor Ian Bostridge; conductors Ton Koopman (Tahn KOHP-mahn), Kenneth Slowik (SLOH-wik) and Joshua Rifkin; Bach scholars Christophe Wolff and Michael Marissen (mair-ISS-en), and soprano Ann Monoyios (MOH-noh-yohs). In Part One of the Passion we'll hear the opening chorus (Come Ye Daughters), the soprano aria from the last supper section (I Will Give My Heart) and the well-known chorale tune O Sacred Head Sore Wounded. We'll also hear the aria Behold My Savior is Now Taken and the final chorus of Part One Oh Man Lament Thy Heavy Sin.

The Kronos Quartet performs O Virtus Sapientie (oh VEER-tooss sah-pee-AIN-tee-ay) by Hildegard von Bingen, a Roman Catholic nun who lived in the 11th century. (Nonesuch 79457-2)

The Purcell (PER-sell) Quartet and theorbo (thee-OR-boh) players Nigel North and Paul O'Dette perform the Fantasy from the Royall Consort Suite No. 1 by 17th-century English composer William Lawes. Later this hour, poet Dick Davis tells us about his love for a woman and her theorbo. (Chandos CHAN 0584/5)

The Baroque Guitar: Paul O'Dette continues his visit with Lisa in NPR's Studio 4A for music composed for the ancestor of our modern day guitar-- the Baroque guitar. We'll hear music by one of the greatest composers for the instrument, Santiago de Murcia (san-tee-AH-goh day MOOR-see-ah). He was guitar master to the Queen of Spain, but travelled to Mexico to find the origins of particular dance tunes. O'Dette plays "Canarios" (kah-NAH-ree-ohss) and "Cumbees" (KOOM-bayss), two West African pieces discovered in Mexico, and a "Fandango" all by Santiago de Murcia.