Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It's said that behind every great man, there's a great woman. And for Mozart, it turns out, that great woman was also a great storyteller.

In the midst of the Oscar awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, classical music has always been a star performer.

In a pair of recordings with the Havana Lyceum Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic horn player celebrates the vibrant intersection of Mozart concertos and traditional Cuban dance music.

Ring in the new year with CRB and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with timeless waltzes by Lanner and Strauss and Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll," capped off with Beethoven's eternal Symphony No. 9 — all conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?" ~Albert Einstein

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the warm brew in your cup is delightful. Composers thought so too!

German pianist Martin Helmchen returns to Symphony Hall as the soloist in Mozart’s effervescent Piano Concerto No. 17, and Herbert Blomstedt leads the BSO in Bruckner’s colossal "Romantic" Symphony.

Thomas Adès conducts his own “Shanty – Over the Sea,” Holst’s spectacular “The Planets,” and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, with violinist Leonidas Kavakos and violist Antoine Tamestit.

Soprano Nicole Cabell and baritone Ryan McKinny star in Mozart’s timeless opera, joined by the Boston Symphony, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a stellar cast of soloists, all led by Andris Nelsons.

BSO Principal Clarinetist William R. Hudgins is the soloist in Mozart’s timeless Clarinet Concerto, and Roderick Cox leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony.