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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.

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.