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Conductor Charles Munch was a champion of Hector Berlioz’s music, and his recording of the Symphonie Fantastique, made in 1954, remains one of the most hignly regarded readings of that work to this day. We’ll hear it (and some other historic recordings as well) on this Sunday’s program.

Clara Wieck Schumann was a piano virtuosa and to some extent a composer, but her importance to music far exceeds either of those endeavors. Her circle of influence is our topic for this Sunday’s visit to the Attic.

Rubinstein and Horowitz, Rachmaninoff and Schnabel, Hofmann and Horszowski — This week we’ll look at some of the legendary masters of the ivories. And while we’re at it, we’ll hear some of the shorter jewels of the piano repertoire.

We’re going to look at some Scottish, or at least Scottish-inspired, music this week. We’ll start with the fruits of Felix Mendelssohn’s famous hike to the Hebrides, and then we’ll hear some music with genuine Caledonian roots.

Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons has become among the best-loved and most-recorded works of the 18th century, and we’ll hear it this Sunday, along with some more of the music of the Red Priest of Venice.

Sergei Prokofiev experienced a wide swath of what it meant to be an artist in an authoritarian society. We’ll take a look at the life and music of one of the most important Russian composers of the 20th century on this week’s program.

This Sunday is Christmas Eve, and of course we'll have three hours of Christmas music -- with a wide variety of curiosities, celebrations, and sometimes just plain whimsy from the boxes and stacks of Mozart's Attic.

We're celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday on Mozart's Attic this Sunday with an all-Beethoven program chock full of his music, including some of his triumphs ....... and a couple of his turkeys as well.

The strict templates of the Baroque era had served music well, but by the mid-18th century, it was time for something new. But what?

Back in the early days of radio, the fledgling BBC commissioned a modest concert piece from the 28-year-old William Walton. Belshazzar's Feast started small, but grew way beyond the resources of the new broadcasting service.