At last, the kinda-sorta weekly feature returns! I've been listening to this symphony a lot of late. I find it a very compelling work,...

The American composers of the Romantic era are an interesting bunch, because they exist in a kind of musical purgatory. Their music is not h...

Still not ready to discuss Mahler's Second yet, so meantime, we'll go back 120 years or so to Mozart. Here is his Symphony no. 29 in...

I'm not ready yet to talk about Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (when you hear it, if you haven't, you'll understand why), so meanti...

I'm not ready to write about Mahler's Second yet, so in the meantime, here is a repost of an AMAZING performance of Beethoven's ...

OK, after much hemming and hawing, it's time. The symphonies of Gustav Mahler represent perhaps the apex of the symphony itself as a ...

I keep promising Gustav Mahler, and I keep postponing Gustav Mahler. Alas! And no, no Mahler this week, either--but in a way, this week...

No Mahler yet--I want to do him justice!--but I'll stick with 'M' composers. Here is Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, the...

I'm still trying to get ahead on writing my Mahler posts -- there's a lot of work involved in listening to Mahler -- so meantime, h...

I don't have a new work to post here (listening time was hard to come by this week), so I'll revisit something old. Here's one o...

Sir Arthur Sullivan has a hallowed place in the history of classical music for his work in setting the librettos of W.S. Gilbert to music, r...

I seem to recall once owning a set of Franz Berwald's symphonies. They made no impression on me whatsoever in the occasions I tried list...

Alexander Glazunov's seventh symphony is named the "Pastoral", and as such it evokes inevitable comparison with Beethoven'...

OK, we really fell off the wagon here, didn’t we? So let’s get back into it with a two-week look at a couple of Alexander Glazunov’s eight s...

I've fallen off the face of the earth in regards to the Saturday Symphonies, haven't I? Well, we'll break the chronological mold...

In exploring the world of Alexander Borodin the last few months, I've noticed that while his music is as packed with wonderful emotion a...

OK, so I didn't get my post written on Borodin's Symphony No. 2 done, so in the meantime, we'll go back in time and back to good...

Alexander Borodin only wrote two complete symphonies and fragments of a third. In discovering this wonderful composer of late, I'm at th...

Let's back up in time a little bit, shall we? I just heard this captivating piece a week or two ago on the radio. Luigi Boccherini was a...

Good luck is finding a new composer to explore and love! Bad luck is finding out that that composer didn't compose a whole lot of music,...