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Many an attic has a box labeled "Christmas Stuff," and Mozart's is no exception.This Sunday we'll have some holiday music for you that doesn't include…

We're in the midst of the cycle of the six numbered Tchaikovsky symphonies, and this week brings us to Symphony No. 3, one of the seldom performed and…

With the coming of the 20th century, a new national school of composition arose in Great Britain. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten…

As a composer for the musical comedy stage as we’ll as for the concert hall, George Gershwin was a towering figure in American music of the…

We look at some of the lighter music associated with Vienna in the 19th century this week: works of Johann Strauss, the Waltz KIng; Franz von Suppe, the…

We have a historical performance of the Brahms Double Concerto this week. Legendary performers Pablo Casals and Jacques Thibeault, who were already…

We arrive at the middle of our cycle of the nine Beethoven Symphonies as transcribed by Franz Liszt this Sunday with the most popular symphony of them…

Schubert's final symphony, the Great C major, was another one of those works that he was never to hear performed. There was no one to finance a concert,…

Remember the "Paul is dead" conspiracy theories of the late 1960s?Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony has some mystery about it, with some claiming that it's a…

We’re going to begin with some music by Clara Schumann this week before we switch to the more frequently heard music of her husband, Robert. Then we’ll pursue the work of a small circle of their friends and we’ll see where that round robin leads.