The Pacifica Quartet joins WNYC's John Schaefer for a live performance on Soundcheck.

Pipa virtuoso Wu Man along with qin player Zhao Jiazhen perform live on WNYC's Soundcheck with John Schaefer, sharing the traditional music of her native China.

Tonight WQXR presents the debut concert by Gustavo Dudamel, the 28-year-old music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The program features Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D Major and the world premiere of City Noir.

The five musicians in this live performance from the Jerome L. Greene Space are the fellows and alumni of The Academy -- a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.

An excerpt of Pulitizer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis' newly commissioned work, Concerto with Echoes, performed live in the WNYC Jerome L. Greene Performance Space by members of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Fifteen members of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra perform a piece by the Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky.  Orpheus will play a work by Stravinsky in each of their Carnegie concerts this season. 

The enterprising pianist Jenny Lin joins WNYC's John Schaefer to perform live on Soundcheck.

David Garland hosts an evening of epoch-defining music from 1924. Recorded live in the Jerome L. Greene space on July 8, 2009.

David Garland, host of Evening Music, offers a glimpse of 1924, featuring epoch-defining music from that year. The Hungarian-born coloratora soprano Martha Eggerth made her debut one year earlier, in 1923, at age 11.

Lorin Maazel discusses his future after the New York Philharmonic on WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show.

Cuban-born drummer and composer Dafnis Prieto and his ensemble Si O Si share the world premiere performance of his haunting Sueno de Amor with singer Vennisa Santi.

Italian-born composer Paola Prestini is the director and founder of the non-profit interdisciplinary collective, VisionIntoArt. Listen to her piece Last Hymn for clarinet, cello, vibes and laptop. Featured here are clarinetist Richard Mannoia, vibraphone player Yuri Yamashita, and cellist Claire Bryant.

Italian-born composer Paola Prestini is the director and founder of the non-profit interdisciplinary collective, VisionIntoArt. Here she gives the world premiere performances of Spell and Inngerutit for clarinet, cello, vibes and laptop.

Tibetan-born singer Yungchen Lhamo gets the audience involved by asking them to lay down a vocal drone over which she improvises a melody for peace and understanding.

Evening Music host David Garland and Overnight Music host Haleh Abghari get in on the act as vocalists in a special live version of Ezequiel Vinao's WNYC commission, Three Versions of a Dream (After a reading of Borges).

Concert pianist Jade Simmons performs live on WNYC's Soundcheck with John Schaefer.

Nico Muhly's piece Keep in Touch is performed with the composer on piano and Overnight Music host Nadia Sirota on the viola. The composer describes the work as "a lament, a sort of chaconne divided up into sections by more freely composed cadenzas for the viola."

The Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola, directed by Kent Tritle, performs two haunting choral pieces, starting with Sederunt by the 12th century composer Perotin. The choir then jumps ahead to the 20th century with Song of the Cherubim by the Polish master Krysztof Penderecki. Recorded live in the Jerome L. Greene space on April 30th 2009.

Barbra Streisand impersonator Steven Brinberg gives a shout-out to WNYC as he takes listeners through "Memories" of the station, with a little help from Rob Schwimmer. Brinberg has performed his "Simply Barbra" act on stages around the world.