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Composers

Austria Year of the Waltz King: Austria Celebrates Strauss Centennial (Dec 1999) The Mozart Cache (Feb 1999) Schubert, the Unfinished Symphonist (Jan 1997) Unsung Schreker (Aug 1991) The Miracle of Mozart (Jan 1991) Gustav Mahler: The 'Titan' Symphonist (Jul 1986) Czech Republic Leos Janacek: A Master Czech Composer (Oct 2004) Dvorak the Opera Man (Sep 1991) The Mighty Martinu (Sep 1990) A Great Czech Composer Comes Into His Own: Leos Janacek (Oct 1988) France Young Berlioz Revealed: A Lost Early Composition Comes to Light (Feb 1994) Messiaen: Illuminations of Eternity (Feb 1993) Surprises From Bizet (Nov 1988) Germany Weill's Music Rises Anew (Oct 2005) Bach: Ad Majorem Dei Gloria (Mar 2000) Hildegard Forever (Jan 1998) Brahms' Muse; On Artistic Inspiration (Apr 1997) Hindemith in Hindsight (Nov 1995) 'Diese herrliche Frau,' Clara Schumann (Oct 1994) Back to Bach (Jul 1992) A Midsummer Night's Mendelssohn (Nov 1991) Carl Maria von Weber, 1786-1826 (Dec 1986) Italy Menotti Reminisces (Jul 1996) Rossini, Master of Melody (Jun 1992) Monteverdi Returns to Venice (Dec 1989) United Kingdom A Singing Faith: Composer John Tavener (Apr 2003) The Power and the Passion: The Neorenaissance in Britain (Sep 1991) The Rebirth of English Music (Aug 1991) 'The Mikado' in the Best Gilbert and Sullivan Style (Jan 1986) Other Europe Chopin, Poland's Musical Voice: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (Oct 1999) Sándor Recalls Bartok (Sep 1995) Penderecki at Sixty: Poland's Global Voice (Nov 1993) Spanish Music's Golden Century (Dec 1991) The Swiss Muse (Nov 1991) Music Giants of the North, Part Two (Aug 1990) Music Giants of the North, Part One (Jul 1990) A Liszt of Surprises (Apr 1986) Russia Rachmaninoff's Piano Legacy (Mar 1993) Steinway's Remedy for Music (Sep 1992) Celebration of Prokofiev, a 'Decadent Formalist' (Jul 1991) Nicolas Slonimsky: Musical Genius (Sep 1989) Hottest Serious Soviet Composer: Alfred Schnittke (May 1989) The Unexpurgated Mussorgsky (Mar 1989) United States Weill's Music Rises Anew (Oct 2005) Passing of 3 Great Composers Ends an Era in Film (Dec 2004) Charle Ives, America's Musical Visionary  (May 2004) The Copland Century (Nov 2000) Duke Ellington: Aristocrat and Revolutionary (Apr 1999) Virgil Thomson: A Portrait in Music (Nov 1996) Menotti Reminisces (Jul 1996) Zwilich's Way: A New Symphony (May 1993) Rachmaninoff's Piano Legacy (Mar 1993) Steinway's Remedy for Music (Sep 1992) Lou Harrison, California Eclectic (May 1992) Alan Hovhaness Makes the Right Connections (Mar 1991) Reviewing Our Musical Heritage (Feb 1990) The Value of New American Music (Jan 1990) Discovering Unknown Masters (Nov 1989) P.D.Q. Bach's Alter Ego (May 1989) Victor Hugo Goes Broadway (Mar 1987) Perils of Crossover: New Recordings of Old Musicals Are a Mixed Blessing (Mar 1987) A Philip Glass Concert: Much Ado About Nothing (Feb 1987) The Sacred Concerts of Duke Ellington (Jan 1987) Boston Symphony Orchestra Shines With Two Rising Stars (Jan 1987) James Reese Europe: A Forgotten Life (Sep 1986) Brigadoon Done In (May 1986) Other The Musicscapes of Toru Takemitsu (Jun 1995) Steinway's Remedy for Music (Sep 1992) Symphony With a Vision Features Chinese Composer Tan Dun (Jun 1988) Boston Symphony Orchestra Shines With Two Rising Stars (Jan 1987)