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In his 31 years, Franz Schubert managed to write some 1500 pieces of music, which tends to indicate that he must have gotten an early start. We’ll look at some music from Schubert’s salad days on this Sunday’s program.

There is a bit of skulduggery involved in the story of Mozart’s Requiem, but it has little in common with the high drama of the movie Amadeus. If the real story isn’t worthy of an Oscar, the Requiem remains one of Mozart’s greatest works.

Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons has become among the best-loved and most-recorded works of the 18th century, and we’ll hear it this Sunday, along with some more of the music of the Red Priest of Venice.

Jean-Philipe Rameau was a contemporary of Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti, but a distinctive ornate French flair sets his orchestral music apart from the others.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we talk about the legal limbo around abortion access as the Florida Supreme Court considers a challenge to the state’s 15-week ban, and a collection of stories about coastal communities' efforts to mitigate flooding.

There’s no great musical tradition surrounding Thanksgiving; the best we can do is to gather some of the music that was being heard around England and Holland around 1620. So that’s what we’ll do: a concert of "Tunes the Pilgrims Left Behind" on this week’s program.

We’re going to hear a pair of piano concerti this Sunday by two Hungarian-born composers whose slightly overlapping lifespans covered a stretch of nearly 140 years — years from the height of the Hapsburg Empire to the tumultuous times of the last century.

Franz Schubert, the archetypal starving artist, never got to hear some of his greatest works — and which of them could be greater than his Ninth Symphony? We’ll hear his Great C Major Symphony as our featured work this Sunday.

Unlike Antonio Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons, Franz Josef Haydn's Oratorio The Seasons looks at the passage of the year from the perspective of the country folk in an allegorical portrayal of a year well spent and a life well lived.

The Silk Road was a network of trade routes spanning the Eurasian land mass and in use for more than 2,000 years, cross-fertilizing cultures from Europe to the Orient and most everything in-between. We’ll touch on just a fraction of the music from the Silk Road on this week’s program.