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The Calder Quartet plays some Philip Glass before one of the most exhilarating works in the classical canon - Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony - is performed in Prague by Pavel Safarik and the Prague Chamber Orchestra. Alain Altinoglu leads the French National Orchestra in a Chausson symphony in Paris. And pianist Claude Frank plays Bach.

We'll have music and conversation with some of the freshly crowned classical Grammy winners, including composers Joan Tower and Peter Lieberson, pianist Garrick Ohlsson, violinist James Ehnes, and members of Eighth Blackbird and the Turtle Island Quartet. And we'll go to Amsterdam to hear Neeme Jarvi lead the Hague Philharmonic in Sibelius' Fifth Symphony.

Gustav Mahler: "The Drunkard in Spring" Tenor John Elwes with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Aria from the prologue of "The Snow Maiden" Soprano Anna Netrebko with the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater and conductor Valery Gergiev

Traditional, Chinese: "Fengyang Ge" Chanticleer

Franz Schubert: Impromptu No. 2 Pianist Kyoko Tabe

Gustav Mahler: "The Drunkard in Spring" Tenor John Elwes with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica

Ralph Vaughan Williams: "The Running Set" The Bournemouth Sinfonietta with conductor George Hurst

Jean Francaix: Fourth movement from Symphony in G Major The Ulster Orchestra with conductor Thierry Fischer