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We start in Russia this Sunday and end up in 20th-century America with lots of stops in-between, and of course we check in on our series of Mozart symphonies with Number 14 this week.

We’ll be looking at some Scottish music this Sunday, going back to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and then contrasting that with some more modern works, some written by Scotsmen and some not. We’ll be leaving the bagpipes behind for this visit to Caledonia.

Bohemian patriot and composer Bedrich Smetana is well known for his tone poem depicting the traverse of one of eastern Euroope’s great rivers, the Moldau. We’ll hear all six of the tone poems encompassing the land, the history, and the legends of this country that is now mostly part of the Czech Republic this Sunday.

Napoleon didn’t get much respect — not musically. This Sunday we’ll hear from three composers — Beethoven, Haydn, and Tchaikovsky — who regarded his reverses with satisfaction and weren’t shy about trumpeting (excuse the pun) their delight at his misfortunes.

In 1717, the exceedingly unpopular King George I of England enlisted court composer George Frederic Handel to write some music for a floating concert on the Thames. King George remained unpopular, but folks by the thousands lined the river banks to hear Handel’s Water Music, our featured work this Sunday.

The Host's choice selection for 2022 on behalf of The Listener.

This week we begin a short cycle of the Book One Piano Preludes of Claude Debussy, twelve little impressionist vignettes from the end of the Gilded Age. Then we return to the series of the complete Mozart symphonies, a project we began last July.

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.

WFIT-FM welcomed Peyton Derrick from local band Mangrove for a conversation and a live performance. Mangrove with be live at the Space Coast Music Festival on the Against The Grain stage on Saturday November 5th.

We’ll look at some music from the time of the Pilgrims this week. There’s no music OF the pilgrims; they brought no musicians with them, but back in Europe it was the High Renaissance, and we’ll hear some of the music from 1620 (or thereabouts) this Sunday night.