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This week finds us at Number 21 in our chronology of the 41 symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; we’re over the hump in a project begun last July.

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.

It’s a December tradition on Mozart’s Attic: A complete performance of Handel’s Messiah as interpreted by a different recording each year.

We go back as far as the 11th century for a telling of the Christmas Story in music of the Middle Ages in an imaginative collection realized by the Waverly Consort to open this week’s program.

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.