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We’re going to throw caution — not to mention taste — to the winds this week as we spend an hour (it seems longer than that) with PDQ Bach and friends (both of them) on this Sunday’s program.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, written largely in Leningrad during the 842-day siege of World War II, is pure defiance. Until a few weeks ago, it was a piece of history. Now, suddenly, it seems timely and appropriate.

Two versions of a story that’s thousands of years old, and you can take your pick this week on WFIT.

Two versions of a story that’s thousands of years old, and you can take your pick this week on WFIT.

As a pianist and as a composer, Clara Wieck Schumann hobnobbed with some heady company: her husband Robert, of course, johannes Brahms, Joseph Joachim, Antonin Dvorak, and others. She was the peer of many, and the better of more than a few. Sunday we’ll hear her rarely performed Piano Concerto in A minor, her only orchestral work.

It’s an all-BACH program this Sunday as we celebrate Johann Sebastian’s March 31,1685 birthday.

In 1972, Calvin Hampton transcribed Pictures at an Exhibition for organ, and we’ll hear that this Sunday. Bring your best loudspeakers to the Attic this week.

It’s a December tradition on Mozart’s Attic, and we’ll have our annual performance of George Frederic Handel’s Messiah, complete, this Sunday. Justin Doyle conducts the Berlin Academy for Old Music with soloists and chorus in a newly-released CD of everyone’s favorite oratorio.

Robert and Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim, and Johannes Brahms may have anticipated the concept of a professional network with mutual encouragement and career assistance in a circle that would come to include Antonin Dvorak.We’ll look at some of the music of this group this Sunday night.

Music is ever-changing, but seldom in a straight line. We’ll look at three composers from each of the three past centuries with little in common with each other or anybody in between. Music from Mozart to Schoenberg this week — and others along the way.