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His melodies haunt you with their beauty, and his harmonies and delicate passagework for the piano still astonish us with their freshness. Frédéric Chopin…

That’s right, you voted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), your No. 1 most essential classical composer. His symphonies, operas, concertos, and…

The composer of Messiah will never be forgotten. But there is so much more to Handel that you voted him our 10th most essential classical composer. Please…

If it’s refined and sophisticated, but it’s jumping and swinging and striding all at the same time, you’re talking Count Basie, and you voted William…

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts this Sunday's Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast on WRTI 90.1. It's a program comprising two major works of the…

Don’t even try to think of a bad piece of music by Antonín Dvo?ák, because you won't find any. Not in our book, anyway. And you thought so highly of the…

Melodies that will melt your heart, and piano passages that will bust your knuckles—that’s what Sergei Rachmaninoff brings to the table. From symphonies…

On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection this Saturday, February 4th, 5 to 6 pm on WRTI...the music of Charles Koechlin is not performed much; that…

There are not enough letter O's in smooth when you’re talking about the Duke. Ellington was elegance personified. This band leader was refined in…

The lovable curmudgeon is on everyone’s short list of favorites, it seems, so it’s no surprise that Johannes Brahms is the No. 5 Most Essential Classical…