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Hector Berlioz said he wanted contrasts in his Great Mass for the Dead, and he got them, musically at least, with a massive orchestra capable of the…

We begin this week with Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, a Christmas Eve fantasy from Russia, then we'll hear holiday music and carols from around the…

This week's featured work, Petrouchka, is Igor Stravinsky's ballet score for a fantastic and tragic tale of three puppets brought to life by a charlatan…

Leopold Mozart was upset with his willful son, who had lost his job with the Salzburg Cathedral, burnt his bridges with the archbishop, moved to Vienna to…

Surely Franz Liszt had sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his keyboard virtuosity.That's what they said, anyway, and rumors of the diabolical…

After the death of Russian artist Victor Hartmann, a memorial showing of some of his works was held in St. Petersburg. Modeste Moussorgsky attended, and…

Something a little different this week: we have an accompanied lecture on, well, the artistry of musical accompanistsPianist Gerald More produced a album,…

Mozart in the Sky with DiamondsThat's a big box of American music up in the Attic, and we'll look through it this Fourth of July starting with music from…

Jacqueline du Pre recorded the Elgar Cello Concerto with John Barbirolli and the London Symphony in 1965. Besides bringing the fairly obscure work to the…

We look at some of the lighter music associated with Vienna in the 19th century this week: works of Johann Strauss, the Waltz KIng; Franz von Suppe, the…