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Mozart Sonata: We'll hear a performance by pianist Michael Endres (MEEKH-ah-el EN-dress), a Mozart specialist. He gave a series of all-Mozart recitals near Bonn, Germany in 1999. We're going to hear one of those works, the Piano Sonata No. 8 in D major, K. 311. (West German Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Cincinnati Trio: We'll hear music by Antonin Dvorak for the unusual combination of two violins and viola, the Terzetto (tairt-SET-toh) in C. The violinists are Timothy Lees and Alexander Kerr and the violist is Michael Strauss, recorded in concert on January 7th as part of the Linton Music Series in Cincinnati. (WGUC, Cincinnati)

Fred chats with Coleridge-Taylor scholar Dr. William Tortolano, a professor of music at St. Michael's College in Vermont, and the editor of the brief choral piece "Lift Up Your Heads."(NPR/ACA Digital/Horton Systems Co.)

We're devoting this hour to the music of three 20th-century American composers--Charles Ives, Anthony DiLorenzo (dee loh-REN-zoh) and Samuel Barber. We begin with Ives, who is widely regarded today as the founder of the modern American musical tradition. Ives was a cutting edge composer who began experimenting with such modern techniques as bi-tonality and polyrhythms long before they became fashionable. He was also an early champion of ragtime. From a concert last May in Saarbrucken (zhar-BROO-ken), Germany, we're going to hear Michael Stern and the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Three Ragtime Dances by Ives. (Saarland Radio/EBU)

Mediterranean Mendelssohn: The Saarbruecken (zahr-BROOK-en) Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Stern, performs Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4, the "Italian" Symphony. Recorded last season in Saarbruecken, Germany. (Saarland Radio/European Broadcasting Union)

Hermann Michael (HAIR-mahn MEE-keye-el) conducts the Buffalo Philharmonic and pianist Fabio Bidini (FAH-bee-oh bih-DEE-nee) in a performance of the Burleske for Piano by Richard Strauss. Recorded in an April 1999 concert at Buffalo's Kleinhaus Music Hall. (John Adamo of Crosswater Productions.)

Night Music in the streets of Chattanooga: Composer Luigi Boccherini (loo-EE-jee boh-ker-REE-nee) spent several years in Madrid, years that apparently included some sleepless nights. His piece "The Procession of the Military Night Watch in Madrid" is a compendium of the nighttime sounds and music of his Madrid, including church bells and beggar's dances. We'll hear it played by the Berlin Chamber Orchestra, in concert at the University of Tennessee last month. We'll also get the Berliners' encore: Aaron Copland's "Hoedown." (Christopher Summers and Michael Kull)

Diamond jubilee: The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra celebrated its 75th anniversary on October 28th with a gala concert in Copenhagen. Conductor Michael Schonwandt (MEEKH-ah-el SHE(R)N-vahnt) and the ensemble opened the performance with the first piece the orchestra played on October 28th, 1925. We're going to hear yhe Overture to the opera "The Cunning Peasant" by Antonin Dvorak. (Danish Radio/European Broadcasting Union) Also: We remember the "Unmelancholy Dane." Noted pianist and humorist Victor Borge (BOR-geh) died Saturday at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut. He would have turned 92 on January 3rd.

Pastoral Bach: We'll hear the guitar duo of Michael Newman and Laura Oltman play "Zion Hears the Watchman Singing," by Johann Sebastian Bach. (MUSICAL HERITAGE SOCIETY 515520W)

Renaissance Christmas: The Canticle A Cappella Choir devoted part of its Christmas concert this month at Our Lady of Sorrow Church in Santa Barbara, California to music of the 16th-century Italian composer Palestrina. From that concert, we'll hear the "O Magnum Mysterium" (oh MAHN-yoom mis-TEH-ree-oom. We'll also hear two 19th-century carols -- "Thy Little Ones, Dear Lord Are We" by Johann A. P. Schultz, in an arrangement by Phyllis Zimmerman. Our mini-concert concludes with two 16th-century carols ... "Sing Tiny Infant Child" by Michael Praetorius and "This Day is Born Emanuel" by John Gerrish. (Opus One Mobile Recordings)