The title is Quintet for Piano and Winds, and Mozart really does feature the piano, with oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn adding expert color commentary. Hear it for today’s Midday Mozart!

Experience the artistry of Hélène Grimaud, a pianist known for her powerful performances and her work as a wildlife conservationist, human rights advocate, and writer. She brings her skill and sensitivity to Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

David Lang is an important voice in contemporary music. In his piece for the ensemble Eighth Blackbird, these broken wings, he speaks to the performers, saying he wants to encourage them to dance and push forward along with the music.

Ulysses Kay is best known for his large-scale symphonic and choral works. His piece Eight Inventions is more intimate, with each movement offering something unique. It’s a chance to hear a different, more personal side of Kay’s music.

Ethel Smyth was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, even going to prison for a time for her political action. Her music was criticized at times for being too masculine and at other times for being too feminine. We’ll hear her Concerto for Violin and Horn today.

Trailblazing conductor Marin Alsop broke barriers on the podium. The Conductor, a documentary about her remarkable career, includes rare archival footage of her mentor, Leonard Bernstein.

French composer Charlotte Sohy wrote her symphony during the First World War, then more than 100 years later, conductor Debora Waldman brought it to listeners for the first time. She leads the world premiere recording of Sohy’s Symphony in C-sharp minor.

Violinist Rachel Podger is the founder and artistic director of an annual baroque music festival in Wales, Brecon Baroque Festival. The group had good chemistry, so she decided to make it a year-round ensemble so they could perform more and make recordings. Rachel Podger and members of Brecon Baroque are some of the outstanding musicians you’ll hear on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

This weekend, we set the clocks ahead, but Joseph Haydn was already keeping perfect time with his Clock Symphony. The steady, rhythmic pulse of his music earned it the nickname, and it’s the perfect soundtrack for adjusting to the time change. Join us for an evening of great music, featuring Haydn’s Clock Symphony and more, on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

Let music transport you to “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” one of the melodies in Leonard Bernstein’s opera Candide, and featured in the Candide Overture.