Michael Schade and Russell Braun are without question two of Canada's biggest singing stars, and you can hear them together today on Sunday Afternoon In Concert. Not to imply that they are only known in Canada, of course -- Schade is the Mozart tenor of choice throughout Europe and North America, and Russell Braun is a favourite baritone the world over in the title roles of Figaro, Onegin and Pelleas. (Next month he leads the cast in the Canadian Opera Company's production of Debussy's Pelleas et Melissande.)

So you can imagine with careers as busy as theirs it's no small feat to get them on the same stage at the same time -- but the recital you'll hear today is just that, Schade and Braun together. It combines solo songs and duets, by Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn and others. Pianist Carolyn Maule (also Russell Braun's wife) accompanies them in a performance that was recorded as part of the International Vocal Series At Roy Thomson Hall.

And following this performance (also available online as Concerts On Demand: Michael Schade & Russell Braun, there's more from the recent Beethoven Festival with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. You can hear both violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Lang Lang in concerto performances.

If you thought last Sunday's epic broadcast of nine Beethoven Symphonies (9 In 9) was something, well, Lang Lang went one more recently, when he played ten piano concertos to mark the 10th anniversary of the Beijing International Festival, and the 20th anniversary of his first stage appearance.

As the story goes, Lang Lang was two years old when he saw The Cat Concerto on TV, and he was smitten. From there it was a hop skip and a prodigy-only leap to becoming one of the world's best known pianists. Today you'll hear him (from the Vancouver Beethoven fest) performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, C Major, Op. 15 .

Lang Lang was still in short pants when Anne-Sophie Mutter became one of the greatest violin virtuosos of our time -- and she still is, as you can hear in today's broadcast of an outstanding performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 61.

And just because I know at least one person is scratching their head and thinking, "The Cat Concerto?" "The CAT Concerto?" here you go...