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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.

This week we’re going to devote the entire program to music performed by the Kronos Quartet. There’s nobody else anything like them and there never has been. We’ll scratch the surface this Sunday.

Leonard Bernstein’s Mass was commissioned for the gala opening of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington in 1971. Billed as a theater piece for singers, players, and dancers, it was of a piece with the turbulence of the times. We’ll hear a complete performance this Sunday.

We don’t know why Franz Schubert left his Eighth Symphony unfinished 200 years ago. The reasons are probably quite commonplace, but coupled with the composer’s tragic life story the tale has grown greater than the sum of its parts in the public imagination.

When is a prelude not a prelude? When it doesn’t lead to something else? Apparently not. Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Scriabin, and other composers wrote heaps of preludes that are actually preludes to nothing. We’ll look at some of these this week in a program of preludes.

In 1913, Arthur Nikisch and the Berlin Philharmonic made the first known recording of a complete symphony (Beethoven’s Fifth, of course). Nikisch was an international star in a time when many conductors relied more on flamboyance than scholarship. Nikisch was different and his musicianship stands out on this old, old recording. See what you think, this Sunday at six.