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In 1928, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill teamed up to produce The Threepenny Opera. This week we’ll have some of the original cast members performing their roles in historic period recordings of nearly a hundred years ago.

Most composers who wrote Requiems, went for the dramatic. Gabriel Faure took a different approach, which many feel to be more appropriate. See what you think as we look at the Faure Requiem this Sunday.

We lighten it up a bit this week, going back to the 1878 London comedy stage with a complete performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore, in which love conquers all (or mostly all) on board the most preposterous ship in the Royal Navy.

The classical music world has been celebrating the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven this year. We’ll observe it this Sunday night on Mozart’s Attic with an all-Beethoven program, culminating in a performance of the ninth symphony by the Berlin Philharmonic directed by Herbert von Karajan.

It was 1783 and Mozart was living in Vienna. He planned a visit with his new wife, back home to Salzburg, where it must have seemed that everyone was mad at him.

The mellow side of Beethoven? He was an angry and unhappy man, but he took joy in the simple pleasure of getting out of the city to spend time in the forest, and he shares that joy with us in this symphony, known as the Pastorale, our featured work this Sunday.

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.

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.

The Siena Pianoforte was salvaged from a Tel Aviv dump after having been used as a hive for bees, a chicken coop, and maybe even a smokehouse for sausages. Of such tales are legends made — some of them might even be true!

Jazz meets classical: it was a daring concept, and success was mixed. We’ll look at some of this music on this Sunday’s program.