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This week we’re going to look at some of George Friedrich Handel’s “other” music. He was, after all, the most important composer working in Great Britain in the 18th century — no one-hit wonder he -- so let’s stop for a bit and listen to some "Handel Besides The Messiah."

It’s our annual Handel’s Messiah program this Sunday. This year’s complete performance of Handel’s beloved oratorio will be by Trevor Pinnock with the English Concert and English Concert Choir.

Sergei Prokofiev experienced a wide swath of what it meant to be an artist in an authoritarian society. We’ll take a look at the life and music of one of the most important Russian composers of the 20th century on this week’s program.

In 1723, J.S. Bach, the newly-hired Kappelmeister at St. Thomas’s in Leipzig had an early opportunity to show his stuff with a setting of the Magnificat. Bach brought in the trumpets and the kettle drums for a festive spectacular performance, and we’ll hear what must have made an impression on the staid Burgomeisters with a festive performance of our own this Sunday.

George Gershwin wrote his Rhapsody in Blue, and Ferde Grofe orchestrated it for a jazz band all within five weeks in 1924. This is not the Rhapsody as most of us know it today. What would happen if Gershwin via piano roll were to "jam" with a modern jazz band using Grofe's score?

This Sunday is Christmas Eve, and of course we'll have three hours of Christmas music -- with a wide variety of curiosities, celebrations, and sometimes just plain whimsy from the boxes and stacks of Mozart's Attic.

We're celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday on Mozart's Attic this Sunday with an all-Beethoven program chock full of his music, including some of his triumphs ....... and a couple of his turkeys as well.

For a variety of reasons, European classical music developed quite differently south of the Pyrenees. We'll hear a sampling with a quick look at what went into the Iberian melting pot, and what sorts of music the blending of Spanish, Moorish, Sephardic, and maybe even Native American cultures produced.

The strict templates of the Baroque era had served music well, but by the mid-18th century, it was time for something new. But what?

This week we're celebrating the music of Franz Schubert, born 227 years ago on Wednesday, the archetypal starving artist, largely ignored during a short, illness-plagued life.