A Thousand and One Nights. Scheherazade figures out a way to avoid being killed (like all those who came before her): tell a fresh story every night, for 1,001 nights....

In addition to the wroks mentioned above, you'll hear Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, which dates from 1937; he and his wife gave the premiere in Basel, Switzerland the following year.

You really mus sit down and listen to the "Death and the Maiden" String Quartet by Schubert. Most multiple-movement works change key to 'ease up' on the musical tension. Schubert doesn't do that in this work. The D Minor never relents except for the passages that shift temporarily to D major key. Those major key portions are then metaphorically like a ray of sunshine through the clouds.

Music of Griffes, Brahms and Bartok....Jeremy Denk is the soloist

It's a wide-ranging program, from Haydn's early 7th Symphony to music of Bartok and Ligeti.