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Not all heroes are knights in shining armor. They come in all forms—brave by nature, unexpectedly courageous, sometimes less than perfect, and—occasionally—seriously flawed.

For many reasons, it’s those who don’t fit the traditional pattern that seem to fascinate us most—as we’ll hear in the next hour with music by Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Grieg, Wagner, Strauss, Copland, and more.

FEATURED RECORDINGS

Title	Group/Artist	Catalog #	UPC
Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition [for Overture to The Marriage of Figaro]	Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra, Arnold Östman	Deutsche Gramophone483 0000	028948300006
Berlioz: 5 Overtures	Scottish National Orchestra, Alexander Gibson	Chandos  CHAN 8316	095115831625
The Essential Hollywood, [for Korngold’s Adventures of Robin Hood]	London Symphony Orchestra, John Williams	Sony Classical 82876770862	828767708621
Copland: Billy the Kid & Rodeo	Colorado Symphony, Andrew Litton	BIS BIS-2164	7318599921648
Beethoven: The Symphonies [for Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”]	Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado	Deutsche Grammophon 477 5864	028947758648
Grieg: Peer Gynt	Estonian National Symphony, Paavo Jarvi	Virgin Classics72435452227	72435452227
Wagner: Orchestral Excerpts [for “Magic Fire” music]	Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz	Naxos 8.572767	747313276776
Novák: In the Tatra Mountains, Lady Godiva	Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta	Naxos 8.573683	74731336837
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Ein Heldenleben	Chicago Symphony, Fritz Reiner	RCA Red Seal82876-61389-2 RE1	828766138924