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Mozart's Attic begins with some dance music from the middle ages and then from a little bit later -- the 1400s.Then we have some Renaissance music for…

We begin this week with Rachel Barton Pine's New CD of Vivaldi's concerti for Viola d'Amore, a now-extinct instrument equipped with a set of resonator…

We're going to feature some organ music of J.S. Bach played by Dr. Albert Schweitzer this week.The physician, humanitarian, theologian, founder of the…

This week we'll hear another of the Mozart piano concerti -- this one a little earlier, the ninth -- performed on period instruments including a replica…

With the coming of the 20th century, all the rules of music went out the window. Composers were free to do pretty much what they wanted, and if someone…

In 1955, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Reiner, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra set out to record the Brahms Violin Concerto in D major. RCA engineers made two…

A keyboard duet can be anything from two kids picking out "Chopsticks" on an old upright piano to the cathedral-filling two-organ concerti of Antonio…

Different chamber organs, different acoustic conditions, modern instruments, period instruments, and plain-old different points of view among performers…

George Frideric Handel moved to London in 1712, and his music was to prove so influential that nothing would ever be quite the same again. The…

The Brahms Requiem may not have done much for the salvation of souls, but it provided the salvation for the composer's career. Brahms's star was in…