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In the final program of this profile, Kertész leads music of Vaughan Williams, Respighi, and Bartok. In music ranging from the sacred to the profane, he demonstrates uncanny ability to draw from each genre characteristic and compelling performances.

Beethoven was a virtuoso pianist and there was no better way to showcase his gifts than in the piano concerti he composed. Hear selections from a new recording of the complete Beethoven piano concerti featuring the impeccable playing of Garrick Ohlsson, one of my favorite pianists.

Kansas City native Robert Russell Bennett was the most respected arranger/orchestrator of theater music in the golden age of Broadway. In the first of three shows about him, we sample a tiny fraction of the 300 Broadway scores that he worked on over his long and influential career.

The world lost a great musician and great advocate for music in the passing of André Watts. We’ll hear recordings from different stages of his distinguished career in works long associated with him.

We have very marvelous variations based on music by Wolfgang Mozart, Henry Purcell and a familiar childhood tune. What these composers do with simple themes is human creativity at its best.

Host Frank Byrne introduces the first program of a monthly series called "Gems of the Repertoire," which features wonderful music that, however entertaining and enjoyable, is absent from today's concert halls. This episode includes recordings by Donizetti, Nielsen, Saint-Saens, and Reznicek.

In this episode, Carlo Maria Giulini becomes Principal Guest Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a glorious period for both conductor and orchestra. We will hear a marvelous recording of his that was never even supposed to happen.

Conductor Carlo Maria Giulini becomes Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and together they make a series of remarkable recordings. Enjoy Giulini's captivating recordings of Chopin and Schumann.

In this first episode of "From the Archives," host Frank Byrne introduces us to some of the wonderful recordings of one of the 20th centuries greatest talents: pianist, composer and conductor George Szell.

Host Frank Byrne programs the first of three episodes devoted to the magnificent Italian conductor Carlo Maria Giulini, a gentleman with whom musicians loved performing. We'll learn more and hear some of his earlier recordings with the music of Rossini, Mozart, Mussorgsky and Verdi.