Friday, November 9

Want performances? Oy, have we got performances. Atlanta in particular is popping this weekend, offering the . . .

• Atlanta Symphony with Donald Runnicles and Cho-Liang Lin (through Saturday)
  
• Atlanta Baroque Orchestra with John Hsu (3 p.m. Sunday)
  
• Atlanta Chamber Players with Paula Peace (also 3 p.m. Sunday)
  
• Atlanta Opera's puppets-n-singers production of Hansel and Gretel, with Yoel Levi conducting (opening Saturday and continuing through the 18th).
  

Meanwhile, outside the trafficky state capital, consider the . . .

• Macon Symphony (Saturday in Macon and again Sunday in Eatonton)
• national touring production of Gypsy in Tifton (Saturday)
  
• Ysaye Quartet and, separately, soprano Nicole Cabell, at Spivey Hall in Morrow.
  

Today on Midday Music, Macon Symphony conductor Adrian Gnam praises the pairing of composer Samuel Barber and soprano Leah Partridge; and Atlanta Opera general manager Dennis Hanthorn waxes enthusiastic about the singing, prancing, puppet-wielding gingerbread children in the Atlanta Opera's Hansel and Gretel and the company's new venue in Cobb County. Alan Cooke's requests show returns next Friday on GPB.

11 AM

• Bruch: Octet for violins, viola, cello and bass. Kodaly and Auer quartets, Fejervari (Naxos 8.557270)
  
• Mozart: Symphonie Concertante for winds and orchestra, K. 297b. West-Eastern Divan Orch, Saleh, Azmeh, Biron, Polyak, Barenboim (Warner 62791)
  

12 N

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 4. BBC Phil, Noseda (BBC Music Mag 12/9)
  
• Barber: Let Down the Bars, O Death. Choir of Ormond College Melbourne, Lawrence (Naxos 8.559053)
  
• Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Op. 72/3,5. Atlanta Sym, Levi (Telarc 80497)
  
• Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel, finale. Bavarian Radio Sym, Tolzer Knabenchor, von Otter, Bonney, Tate (EMI 54022)
  

1 PM

• Brahms: Horn Trio: Finale. Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta. (ACA Digital 20033)
  
• Godard: Valse. Atlanta Chamber Players (ACA Digital )
  
• Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. St. Louis Sym, Slatkin (Telarc 80606)
• Schoenfield: Cafe Music. James Ehnes, Edward Arron, Andrew Russo. (Black Box)
  
• Styne: Gypsy, Overture. Original Broadway cast recording.