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Beethoven at the Crossroads: Beethoven's deafness was profound by the time he was 32. We'll hear a piece Beethoven was working on at the time he rejected suicide ... for music. We'll hear Beethoven's Symphony Number Two in D major. We're in concert in Portland's Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Guest conductor David Lockington leads the Oregon Symphony. (Michael, Johnson & Nettleingham Audio)

Isserlis in Wonderland: We'll hear cellist Steven Isserlis join pianist Stephen Hough (HUFF) and clarinetist Michael Collins for music by Brahms. It's the third movement of the Opus 114 Clarinet Trio. Isserlis himself wrote the liner notes for this CD. The notes begin with a page-long reverie, reminiscent of Lewis Carroll. Isserlis dramatizes a tale of the clarinet, tried before a jury of his peers ... the French horn, the bassoon, the oboe, the kettledrum ... We'll hear more of Isserlis' thoughts on the world of music, later this hour. (BMG Classics 09026-63504-2)

Ives in New England: From the orchestral set called "Three Places in New England" by Charles Ives, we'll hear the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and conductor Michael Stern perform the section called "From the Housatonic (HOO-sah-TAH-nik) at Stockbridge." Ives was inspired by a walk he took along the banks of the Housatonic River in Massachusetts. The concert was recorded in the fall of 1999. Ives won a Pulitzer in 1947. (ACA Digital/Horton Systems)

A Ride Down the Rhine: Robert Schumann added a little local color to his Symphony No. 3, called the "Rhenish" Symphony. It gets its nickname from the Rhine river. Schumann lived near the Rhine when he wrote the piece. >From a concert last season, we'll hear a performance by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, led by Michael Stern. (ACA Digital/Horton Systems)

Bartok's last Piano Concerto: From a concert in Atlanta, pianist Yefim Bronfman (yeh-FEEM BRONF-man) performs the Piano Concerto No. 3, the final piano concerto, by Hungarian composer Bela Bartok (BAY-luh BAR-tawk). Michael Stern conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. (ACA Digital Recording/Horton Systems Co.)

Buffalo's Gershwin: We'll hear Michael Tilson Thomas conduct the Buffalo Philharmonic in George Gershwin's overture to "Of Thee I Sing." (CBS MK 42240)

C.P.E. Bach in Washington: From a concert a few seasons ago at the Bellingham Festival of Music in Bellingham, Washington, we're going to hear Michael Palmer and the American Sinfonietta perform the Symphony No. 1 in D major by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. (Bart Chiate Recordings)

Czech pianist Lucas Vondracek (LOO-kahsh VAHN-drah-chek) is just 14 years old, but you'd never know he was a teenager just from hearing him play. >From a concert he gave in January at Rockefeller University in New York City, we're going to hear him perform three works by Frederic Chopin: The Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major; the "Grande Valse" (grahnd vahlss) in A-flat major, Op. 42; and the "Grande Valse Brillante" (bree-YAHNT) Op. 34, No. 1. (Michael Hesse's MSK Recordings of New York)

"Bear" of a Symphony: Conductor Michael Christie and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra perform the Symphony No. 82 in C major--the "Bear" Symphony--by Franz Haydn. It's from a concert last year at the Woodruff Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia. (ACA Digital Recording and Horton Systems Company)

We'll hear part of Michael Kamen's piece "New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms" which has just been released on CD. (Decca 289 467 631-2)