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>From two of Ted's recommended recordings we'll hear some of Kurt Weill's "Little Threepenny Music," music that comes from his popular stage piece, "The Threepenny Opera." Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the London Symphony Orchestra. (CBS MK 44529)

A Weill Suite: From one of the CDs that PT critic Ted Libbey recommends later this hour, we'll hear two selections from Kurt Weill's (VEYEL's) "Little Threepenny Music": "The Instead-of Song" and "Polly's Song." Michael Tilson Thomas conducts members of the London Symphony. (CBS MK 44529)

From Michael Kamen's score to X-Men, we'll hear the Final Showdown from the movie soundtrack. (Decca 289 467 270-2)

Salieri (sah-lee-AIR-ee) at the opera: Michael Dittrich (DIH-trick) conducts the Slovak Radio Symphony in the overture to the opera Caesar in Farmacusa (far-mah-KOO-zah) by Antonio Salieri. (Naxos 8.554838)

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.

Violinist Joerg-Michael Schwarz (YURG-MEYE-kel SHWARTS) and the New York Collegium perform Die Fechtschule (dee FEKHT-shoo-leh--The Fencing School) by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (YOH-hahn HEYEN-rikh SHMELT-ser). We'll also hear an encore: the Presto from Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto Alla Rustica. Recorded in concert on March 12th at Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. (WGBH, Boston)

From a concert last year at Emanuel Church in Boston, Michael Beattie conducts the Emmanuel Music Orchestra and Chorus in a performance of the Cantata No. 115, Make My Spirit Ready, by Johann Sebastian Bach. The concert features soloists Kendra Coltan, soprano, Gloria Raymond, alto, Gerald Gray, tenor and Paul Guttry, bass. (Tom Stephenson's Emmanuel Audio Recordings)

The Resurrection Symphony by Gustav Mahler opened the Aspen Music Festival's new performance tent last month. Thanks to a longtime Aspen regular, cellist Lynn Harrell, Mahler's opening melody had a resurrection of its own a few days later--in a concerto by Haydn. The performance we'll hear has, about seven minutes into the first movement, a cadenza like no other. The Aspen Chamber Symphony conducted by Michael Stern, plays the Cello Concerto in C by Franz Joseph Haydn, with contributions by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Gustav Mahler, Franz Schubert and Lynn Harrell. (Aspen Music Festival Audio Institute)

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From one of Ted's recommended recordings, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in music from Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet. We'll hear the Madrigal and Balcony Scene. (RCA 09026-68288-2) 9:00 PEROTIN--HOUR 1; RAVEL--H