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Pianist Frederic Chiu performs the La Ricordanza (ree-kor-DAHN-zah) Variations, Op. 33, by Carl Czerny (CHAIR-nee). Recorded in concert on July 17th at The Breakers as part of this year's Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island. (Benchmark Recordings)

Impressions of Seattle. From a concert on July 19th at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, we'll hear a quartet of musicians -- violinists David Kim and Scott Yoo, violist Marcus Thompson and cellist Toby Saks -- perform the String Quartet in G minor by Claude Debussy. (Bill Levey Recordings)

Shostakovich out west: From this wear's Music Academy of the West, the Academy Festival Orchestra performs the Symphony No. 6 by Dmitri Shostokovch. The conductor is Graeme Jenkins. Recorded in concert on July 8th at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, California. (Opus 1 Mobile Recordings)

Members of the Caramoor Virtuosi--pianist Andre Armstrong, violinist Ayako Yoshida (ay-YAH-koh yoh-SHE-dah) and cellist Edward Arron--play the Adagio for Piano Trio by Arvo Part (PAIRT). Recorded on July 5th in the First (Scots) Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina, as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival 2000. (Paul Jacoby Recordings)

C.P.E. Bach on High: From 8000 feet up in the Colorado rockies, cellist Lynn Harrell and the International Sejong (SAY-jong) Soloists perform the Cello Concerto in A-major by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The concert was recorded on July 5th at this year's Aspen Music Festival. (Aspen Music Festival Audio Institute)

A pretty darned important Bach discovery: Just when we thought that there was nothing more to learn about Johann Sebastian Bach, new information has surfacedin a lake. Pages from a long-lost diary written by the composer's last and least-known son, P.D.Q. Bach, have just been discovered in--of all places--North Carolina by Professor Peter Schickele (SHIK-kel-lee). He'll read P.D.Q.'s entry from July 29th, 1750, which concerns his father's death the day before.

A pretty darned important Bach discovery: Just when we thought that there was nothing more to learn about Johann Sebastian Bach, new information has surfaced...in a lake. Pages from a long-lost diary written by the composer's last and least-known son, P.D.Q. Bach, have just been discovered in--of all places--North Carolina by Professor Peter Schickele. He'll read P.D.Q.'s entry from July 29th, 1750, which concerns his father's death the day before.

Bach Week begins: This Friday, July 28th, marks the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. All this week we'll pay tribute to this great composer. We'll begin with Bach for orchestra: Leopold Stokowski (stoh-KAWFF-skee) conducts the Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra in his transcription of the Sarabande from John Sebastian Bach's Violin Partita No. 1. Russian pianist Vladimir Feltsman has devoted most of his time during the last decade to music by J.S. Bach. We'll hear him perform four preludes and fugues from the composer's Well-Tempered Clavier in concert. Recorded in late June at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. (Edgar Stanton Audio Recording Institute)

Daphnis and Chloe from the Berlin Philharmonic: From a concert they gave on July 2nd at the Philharmonie in Berlin, American Kent Nagano (nah-GAH-noh) conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in the Suite No. 2 from the ballet Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel. (German Radio Berlin/European Broadcasting Union)

Chopin by the Sea: From this year's Newport Music Festival, in Rhode Island, Chopin specialist Juana Zayas (WHAH-nah ZEYE-yahss) performs the Scherzo No. 1 in B-minor by Frederic Chopin. Recorded in concert on July 7th at the Breakers, one of the many old mansions on the Atlantic where the festival holds its concerts. (Jim Donahue Recordings)