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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…

We begin an hour of English music this Thursday with a historical recording of Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music, a piece with lyrics by Shakespeare,…

Unrequited love, jealousy, drugs, dreams of murder and witchcraft: it sounds like the plot of some gothic opera.But it's not, it's the aptly-named…

There's a great celebration in the musical world this month. August 25th is the hundred-year anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, a unique…

The six Bach Suites are mainstays of the literature for unaccompanied cello. Yo-Yo Ma recorded them as a young aspiring artist in his twenties, again in…

Beethoven enjoyed the countryside, away from the hustle and bustle of Vienna. Communicating with people had become difficult for him, but not so with…

Classical music nearly lost it in the 20th century.The serialism and atonality that was embraced by many composers, musicians, and academics was beyond…

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky completed six numbered symphonies, and while three of them are mainstays of the classical repertoire, the other three are far…