Music by Anatoly Lyadov, Julia Adolphe, Modest Mussorgsky, and Hector Berlioz.

Quirky customs, long-lived legends, and other classical curiosities and superstitions.

Alan Gilbert leads music by three fascinating 20th century composers.

Plus chamber music and a live score for a silent film.

Pianist Juho Pohjonen conveys Ravel’s macabre yet gorgeous Gaspard de la Nuit. Plus, the Dover Quartet with special guests Ida Kavafian and Peter Stumpf tackles Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht.

Music to set the stage for a remarkable celestial spectacle.

We explore the “Romantic side” of three 20th century masters in this broadcast: Webern, Schoenberg, and Ives.

The Quartetto di Cremona performs Schoenberg’s early-20th century Quartet No. 1.

Michael Tilson Thomas leads the CSO in Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with soloist Jeremy Denk.

Daniel Barenboim leads Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C Minor. Haydn’s Symphony No. 95 in C Major opens the program.

The world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic shares a program of Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Strauss.

Mitsuko Uchida is an incomparable interpreter of Mozart.

Hrůša also conducts music by Barber and Coleridge-Taylor.

The Great Chicago Fire began on October 8, 1871. Here’s some music that takes inspiration from flames.

Listening to classical music can provide a general sense of peace and tranquility, but many great works promote pacifism as their central theme.