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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.

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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.

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s birthday is probably December 16. We’ll celebrate it this Sunday with an all-Beethoven program to mark the occasion with some of the best-known notes in all of music…… And maybe a couple of oddities as well.

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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.