Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Chamber Music Society, melodious chamber pieces for piano and strings by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saëns take center stage, capped by a world premiere by Lowell Liebermann, all from New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.

In an encore broadcast, BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee conducts Unsuk Chin’s powerful tribute to Beethoven, "subito con forza," and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, as well as Mozart’s brooding Piano Concerto No. 20, with soloist Eric Lu in his Boston Symphony debut.

Andris Nelsons begins his 10th season as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director with works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss, and Arturs Maskats, as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, with soloist Rudolf Buchbinder.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of good music must be in want of a book.

Just like the rest of us, composers have always tried to find moments of peace, and they even wrote it into some of their music.

Andris Nelsons leads the BSO and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in a concert version of Mozart's opera buffa classic “Così fan tutte.”

Some of the greatest composers were humble enough to write music in honor of other great composers.

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.