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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.