| Summer begins on PIANO | and we include some seasonally appropriate | selections along the way, as well as a salute to | Accordion Awareness Month |
| Andras Schiff, fortepiano | Schubert: Moments Musicaux D 780, op. 94 | Franz Schubert | ECM New Series |
| Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord | Giles Farnaby: Fantasia; William Byrd: The nynth gavian and galliarde, the Passinge measures | The Passinge Mesures | Hyperion |
| And now, a salute (throughout today's | program) to June: Accordion | Awareness Month | |
| James Crabb & Geir Draugsvoll, accordions | Mussorgsky: Promenade from "Pictures at an Exhibition" | Duos for Classical Accordion: Stravinsky and Mussorgsky | EM Classics |
| Hohner Accordion Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Wurthner: conductor | Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours from "La Gioconda" | Accordiorama | Vanguard Classics |
| Kathleen Battle, soprano; Christopher Parkening, guitar | Granados: La Maja de Goya | Pleasures of Their Company | EMI / Angel |
| I Musici, Maariana Sirbu: violin soloist | Vivaldi: "Summer" from The Four Seasons | Ultimate Baroque (box) | Decca |
| Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting | Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream": | A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Soundtrack) | CBS |
| Sarah Vaughan, vocal; Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Los Angeles Philharmonic | Gershwin: Medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / I Loves You Porgy (from Porgy and Bess) | Gershwin Live! | CBS |
| Dawn Upshaw, soprano; David Zinman conducts Orchestra of St. Luke's | Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 | Knoxville: Summer of 1915 | Nonesuch |
| Guy Klucevsek: accordion; Soho Quartet | Mary Ellen Childs: Four of One of Another | Mary Ellen Childs: Kilter | Experimental Intermedia Foundation |
| English String Orchestra, conducted by William Boughton | Britten: Prelude and fugue, for 18-part String Orchestra | Benjamin Britten: Works for String Orchestra | Nimbus |
| Yuja Wang, piano | Rachminov: Prelude op 32.10 | The Berlin Recital | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Martha Argerich, piano | Chopin Prelude as-dur op post PResto | Chopin: 26 Preludes | Deutsche Grammophon |
