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One of the last of the Romantics, Sergei Rachmaninoff remains among the most popular of the 20th-century Russian composers. During his lifetime, however,…

Leonard Bernstein’s Mass was a spectacular work commissioned for the gala opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC…

We begin this week's program with music from the Ukrainian Romantic composer, Mykola Lysenko, combining national themes with forms borrowed from J.S.…

Having recently been graduated from one conservatory and hired to teach at another, Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky set out to write his first large-scale work,…

In June 1941, Adolf Hitler launched a three-pronged invasion of the Soviet Union.The northern force was stopped at Leningrad, setting the city up for an…

We'll hear Beethoven at his most pastoral this week as we reach Number Six in our cycle of the nine symphonies in piano transcription. Then we'll spend…

We've got a set of music from seven less-well-known composers, born in the second half of the last century, with seven different ideas about new…

This week we come to the end of the cycle of the nine Beethoven symphonies, transcribed by Franz Liszt, and performed by Cyprien Katsaris. Beethoven's…

In 1733, Bach found himself in a competition with Vivaldi, Albinoni, Telemann, and several other musicians for a position with the court orchestra in…

You can get the recipe for Mama Stamberg's cranberry sauce every year from NPR, but only Mozart's Attic will tell you how to use up your turkey leftovers…