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The Kaddish Symphony, dating from 1963, concludes the cycle of the three symphonies of Leonard Bernstein this week on Mozart's Attic. We'll also hear the…

It's St. Joseph's Day and Mozart's Attic celebrates all things Polish this Thursday night.Chopin of course, but also Renaissance works from fifteenth- and…

We begin with a baroque hour featuring a battle suite for brasses by Samuel Scheidt, the seventh in our cycle of the eight symphonies of William Boyce,…

In 1964, Columbia Records released a two-LP set of E. Power Biggs playing the twelve surviving instruments of 17th-century master organ builder Arp…

It doesn't happen often in the Classical world, but once in a while a piece of music gets re-arranged (or metamorphosed) into a version so successful that…

Next Monday is Columbus Day and we look at some of the music that the Admiral of the Ocean Sea and his crew might have heard in Palos de la Frontera in…

If you didn't know any better and got plopped into 19th century Europe, you'd probably think that this guy Shakespeare was a pretty good librettist or…

After their 1920s Berlin hit, the Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborated one last time with another entertainment, The Rise and Fall…

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,…

In a long career, Arturo Toscanini played cello under Giuseppe Verdi's baton at La Scala and conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the age of high…