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It was really tough to get the list down to 50 and there were many deserving honorable mentions. We’ll spin as many as we can squeeze into 2 hours on Left Of The Dial on Friday December 30 at 10 pm. Please enjoy our playlist of 50 of our favorite songs from the year that was 2022.

Bach’s Easter Oratorio is considerably shorter than some of his similar works, and it’s also considerably less familiar.On this Sunday’s program, we’ll have a performance of this curious work that combines some of Bach’s most festive music with episodes of pathos that seem contradictory at first glance, but maybe not so much on reflection.

English composer Frederick Delius’s story is far from unique. He wanted to devote his life to music; his father wanted him to pursue the family business. It didn’t make a businessman out of him, but it did giive hm the material to write a Florida Suite, and we’ll hear it on this week’s program.

Fifteen years after the president’s trip, minimalist composer John Adams’s opera Nixon in China looked back upon the events of 1972, and we’ll hear what what he was able to capture about the spirit of that week in February on this Sunday’s program.

The Eroica was the first of the so-called Great Symphonies of Beethoven. Now, two centuries later, it remains impressive, and we’ll hear it as this week’s featured work.

Clara Wieck Schumann was a piano virtuosa and to some extent a composer, but her importance to music far exceeds either of those endeavors. Her circle of influence is our topic for this Sunday’s visit to the Attic.

Since last July, we’ve been retracing the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the chronology of his symphonies, We’ll hear that final symphony this week and then we’ll celebrate with some of the wide variety of music he left us after a short but remarkable life.

Luigi Cherubini’s Requiem was written for the royal funeral of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and so popular did it become that it gained a virtual monopoly over memorial services in Europe for many years. We’ll unearth it for this week’s program.

Rubinstein and Horowitz, Rachmaninoff and Schnabel, Hofmann and Horszowski — This week we’ll look at some of the legendary masters of the ivories. And while we’re at it, we’ll hear some of the shorter jewels of the piano repertoire.

The coronation of King Charles is set for May 6, and there will be lots of ceremonial music. We’re going to anticipate some of those ceremonial tunes in a Coronation Special program this week.