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Some of the most elegant music of the Baroque era came not from Bach, nor Handel, nor even Vivaldi. Jean-Phillippe Rameau, working at the Parisian stage…

With all of the other holiday music filling the air, Beethoven's mid-December birthday mostly gets overlooked.We'll try to make up for that with a belated…

Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto was the last that he would be able to perform himself before progressive hearing loss robbed him of the ability to play…

Though he spent most of his life in what we now call eastern Germany, J.S. Bach was very much au courant as to what was going on elsewhere in Europe,…

Wilhelm Furtwängler was the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II.His legacy is complicated. By virtue of his podium, he was…

We look back at the history of the Boston Symphony Orchestra this week, featuring a 1955 RCA Victor recording celebrating the Orchestra's 75th…

In 1966, Robert Shaw released an original-score recording of the Messiah, and it was a revelation. It was the first "historically informed" performance of…

You already knew that Mozart was a multi-faceted talent. We pay rent on the attic this week as we look at five different aspects of Mozart's music -- from…

It's Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday on March 31st, and we'll be celebrating up in the attic on Thursday night.Once regarded as a giant among keyboard…

In between his two academic years serving as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, Antonin Dvorak spent the summer in Spillville,…