The series can be heard nationally on 162 commercial and non-commercial stations. In New York, it will be broadcast on WQXR-FM (96.3) Mondays at 10 pm, beginning today.

Among the highlights of the season are two complete programs of works by Gy‹rgy Ligeti, drawn from the 2006 Ligeti Festival; selections from the celebration of the Shostakovich Centennial; works by Osvaldo Golijov, Michael Daugherty and Schoenberg; and classics by Mozart, Brahms, Debussy and Dvoršk.

Among the many performers featured in the radio series are David Finckel and Wu Han; pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Emanuel Ax, Angela Hewitt and Anne-Marie McDermott; violinists Ani Kavafian and Mark Steinberg; cellists Gary Hoffman and Daniel M‹ller-Schott; the St. Lawrence, Orion, Borromeo, Shanghai, Daedalus, and Pacifica string quartets; and soprano Barbara Hannigan.