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Tim Seely's debut, Funeral Music, is a beautiful and intricate folk-pop album brimming with atmosphere. Seely briefly made a name for himself as the frontman of The Actual Tigers, an ambitious and talented pop unit that was cruelly lost in record label woes back in 2001.

Estonian native Eri Klas conducts the mixed student-and-professional orchestra of the National Orchestral Institute in Paul Hindemith's most popular work: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, in concert at the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

With its insidious cloud of warm keyboards and droning sitars, Thievery Corporation's "This Is Not a Love Song" qualifies as hipster electronica: It's "Chariots Of Fire" for the indie-rock set, yet palatable enough for those who enjoy the music on VW commercials.

Gary Graffman, president of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, says goodbye Wednesday after 20 years as director of the influential music school. From Graffman's farewell concert, we'll hear him solo in the Concerto for Piano Left Hand by Maurice Ravel. Christoph Eschenbach leads the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.

From a concert at the Trinity Center for Urban Life in Philadelphia, we hear the world premiere of a work for harp: "Every Lover Is a Warrior" by Canadian composer Kati Agocs. It's based on folk tunes from Appalachia, France and Hungary, and is played by harpist Bridget Kibbey.

Thomas Dybdahl's voice has the emotional resonance of Jeff Buckley's and the vulnerability of Chet Baker's. His delicate but lush music recalls that of Tim Buckley, Nick Drake and other forward-thinking folk-rock songwriters who surrounded their basic guitar chords with layered arrangements.

PT drifts off the beaten path of the standard repertoire with another "Classical Detour." This time around, it's three compelling performances by three separate pianists: Pedja Muzijevic, Margaret Leng Tan and Jon Kimura Parker.

Fred Child, host of NPR's Performance Today, hosts an exclusive webcast from Festival del Sole, featuring pianist Piotr Anderszewski and violinist Nikolaj Znaider, with Stephane Deneve conducting the Russian National Orchestra.

Whether performing country-blues or roots-rock, Greene has the voice, talent and confidence of a performer well beyond his 26 years — a man whose sound seems at once achingly intimate, surprisingly energetic and unburdened by adherence to genre.

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson performs a sonata Beethoven wrote early in his career, then closes by playing Chopin's Etude in C-Sharp Minor. In addition to those performances, Ohlsson talks to Performance Today host Fred Child about his craft and his practice habits.