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Lloyd Schwartz discusses the timeless appeal of the late choreographer George Balanchine. "[He] was our Shakespeare. ... watching a Balanchine ballet is like watching music come alive," he says.

Though he never became a household name, many music lovers regard Szigeti, who died in 1973, as the greatest classical violinist in living memory. This new collection captures his early recordings.

It's swing time! Liane chats in NPR's with Five By Design, a vocal quintet from Minnesota which has been touring nationally with two shows, as well as performing with symphony orchestras.

Gary Graffman, president of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, says goodbye Wednesday after 20 years as director of the influential music school. From Graffman's farewell concert, we'll hear him solo in the Concerto for Piano Left Hand by Maurice Ravel. Christoph Eschenbach leads the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.

To accompany a concert performance of a seldom-performed piano concerto by Bela Bartok, NPR's Fred Child tells the story of the music's inception in the summer of 1945. Zoltan Kocsis is the pianist, with Sakari Oramo conducting the Finnish Radio Symphony in the Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3.

Conductor David Robertson and pianist Orli Shaham are a loving couple. Shaham tells how Robertson proposed at the Aspen Music Festival, and they make beautiful music together, performing the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony.

Baroque composer Jean-Fery Rebel tried to capture what the beginning of the world might have sounded like, in his suite "The Elements." Michael Stern conducts the Aspen Symphony in excerpts from that Suite, at the Aspen Music Festival.

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This week's essential playlist includes Chastity Belt singer Julia Shapiro on her first solo album, Portishead's Beth Gibbons singing with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and more.

The popular video of Beethoven's 5th dressed in a mambo beat is a reminder of many other classical transformations, from jazz great Betty Carter to the Japanese electronics wiz Tomita.