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A conductor's choice and a critic's displeasure: Last year, Leonard Slatkin conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of a work by Michael Kamen called "New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms." The music critic of the Washington Post, Philip Kennicott, accused Leonard Slatkin of "squandering cultural dollars" when he commissioned the piece. Fred gets both sides of the story.

We all know it as the piece that gets played at graduation. But Elgar wrote his "Pomp and Circumstance" March No. 1, at least in part, to galvanize support from the English public for British troops in South Africa during the Boer War. We'll hear a performance by the Buffalo Philharmonic, with guest conductor Hermann Michael (MEE-heye-ell). (John Adamo of Crosswater Productions)

The American Chamber Players are back in Studio 4A to play the gorgeous Clarinet Trio that Johannes Brahms wrote late in this life, after he said he was going to give up writing music altogether. We'll hear clarinetist Loren Kitt, pianist Edward Newman and cellist Michael Mermagen (mer-MAY-gen). (NPR)

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/Horton Systems)

Candide: We'll hear Hermann Michael (HAIR-mahn MEEKH-eye-el) conduct the Buffalo Philharmonic in a 1999 performance of the Overture to Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" (kahn-DEED). (Crosswater Productions of Buffalo)

C.P.E. Bach: We'll hear music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. It's Michael Faust on flute, and Ilton Wjuniski (we-yoo-NISS-key) at the harpsichord. They'll play the Allegro from a D major sonata by C.P.E. Bach. (GM 2037)

Some of the inspiration for Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" is from early European music. We'll hear a selection of dances from Terpsichore (terp-SIK-oh-ree), a collection by Michael Praetorius, from 1612. The London Consort plays five quickies. (L'Oiseau Lyre CD 414 633)

Beethoven in Bellingham: From last year's Bellingham Festival of Music in Washington State, we'll hear Beethoven's "Coriolan" Overture. Michael Palmer conducts the American Sinfonietta. (Natural Soundfields, Ltd., Los Angeles)

Czech prodigy: The 14-year-old Czech pianist Lukas Vondracek (loo-KAHSH von-DRAH-chek) caused a stir last Friday during a free concert at Rockefeller University in New York. We've got a recording of his performance of three Czech Dances by Bedrich Smetana. (Recorded by Michael Hesse/MSK Recordings of New York)

Beethoven in Bellingham: From last year's Bellingham Festival of Music in Washington State, we'll hear Beethoven's "Coriolan" Overture. Michael Palmer conducts the American Sinfonietta. (Natural Soundfields, Ltd., Los Angeles)