As we anticipate violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson premiering a new work written for them this Saturday with the Vermont Symphony, we will hear them in Beethoven's Piano Trio No. 1. Also, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestrated by Ravel.

Join Walter Parker for 2 live performances. At 11am, violinist Soovin Kim switches to viola, joining the Biava Quartet for Mozart's String Quintet in G minor, K. 516. At 1pm, Walter hosts cellist Zuill Bailey and pianist Simone Dinnerstein as they play Beethoven.

Bach's Goldberg Variations, played by Simone Dinnerstein, who joins cellist Zuill Bailey for Sonatas by Beethoven LIVE on VPR Friday at 1 and at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph that evening at 7.

Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti played by Christian Zacharias, who is 50 today; Suites from the ballet Namouna by Lalo; the Roaring Fork Wind Quintet of Eric Ewazen; and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 played by Murray Perahia.

Vivaldi played by Europa Galante, which will be in Troy, NY, on Wednesday and in Hanover, NH, on Friday; Bach by the Swingle Singers, who perform in Burlington on Sunday; plus Copland's Rodeo, Smetana's Quartet "From My Life," and Symphonies in C by Bizet and Stravinsky.

Our music for April 1 will include P.D.Q. Bach's Short-Tempered Clavier: Preludes and Fugues in All the Major and Minor Keys Except for the Really Hard Ones.