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The cycle of the nine Beethoven symphonies recorded by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra for the then-new high fidelity vinyl phonograph…

Musicians need to practice, and for organists this historically presented a problem: someone had to be engaged to pump a bellows to provide air pressure.…

It will be beeswax and shellac this Thursday as we look at recordings from the 1900s to the 1940s.This period encompasses some of the most primitive…

Mozart's Attic begins with some music for Good Friday written in 1645 By Heinrich Schutz.From there we go to another of the short symphonies of William…

Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite used to be one of those "Introduction to classical music" pieces than many first heard as children -- like Peter and the…

Founded in 1964, Nonesuch Records was a budget label specializing in a then-unusual repertoire of chamber music, particularly that of the Baroque period.…

Some say Jascha Heifetz was the greatest violinist of the 20th century. Some others say he was the greatest musician -- period -- of the 20th century.…

Leo Delibes is almost forgotten today, but he was well-known as a composer of comic operas and ballets in the days of the Second Empire in Paris --…

This week we begin a series of the seven symphonies of Jean Sibelius, starting, appropriately enough, with the Symphony No.1 in E minor, written when…

With the coming of World War I, the Russian Empire was on its last legs. Jean Sibelius would turn his musical attention to matters other than Finnish…