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We’ll look at Peter Tchaikovsky’s last major work this Sunday. Then we’ll skip over to Italy to see what Giuseppe Verdi was doing at around the same time.

Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony wasn't an immediate success. The critics largely panned it, like they did the First Piano and Violin Concerti. But time was…

We'll hear Beethoven at his most pastoral this week as we reach Number Six in our cycle of the nine symphonies in piano transcription. Then we'll spend…

We've got a set of music from seven less-well-known composers, born in the second half of the last century, with seven different ideas about new…

At first Gustav Mahler was happy to be appointed Director of the Vienna Imperial Opera. After few seasons of dealing with hot-house-orchid singers,…

In 1936, Carl Orff set two-dozen poems from a 13th-century manuscript to music evocative of the Middle Ages. We'll look at his Carmina Burana on this…

The critics continued to pan his technique, but the audiences came to love Tchaikovsky's melodies, and by 1888, he was among the most famous composers in…

In June 1941, Adolf Hitler launched a three-pronged invasion of the Soviet Union.The northern force was stopped at Leningrad, setting the city up for an…

This week we come to the end of the cycle of the nine Beethoven symphonies, transcribed by Franz Liszt, and performed by Cyprien Katsaris. Beethoven's…

In 1733, Bach found himself in a competition with Vivaldi, Albinoni, Telemann, and several other musicians for a position with the court orchestra in…