The Vacation ConnectionA tuneful travelogue with composers who just wanted to get away from it allListen To Full Show/Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
The Waltz ConnectionHow the Strauss family—and others—transformed a humble folk dance into an art form. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
The Scherzo ConnectionHow the scherzo came to be—and what it unexpectedly became. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
The Ophelia ConnectionShakespeare’s tragic maid in works by Brahms, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Thomas, and more. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
The Diaghilev Connection 2How Sergei Diaghilev commissioned a decade of important ballet music from Falla, Satie, Respighi, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
The Diaghilev Connection 1A salute to the legendary ballet impresario, Sergei Diaghilev, and the music written for him by Ravel, Falla, Respighi, Stravinsky and more. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
The Lunar ConnectionThe moon in music by Dvorak, Offenbach, Orff, Debussy, Beethoven, and more. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
The Fish ConnectionA fishing expedition for underwater life in works by Schubert, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Mahler, and more Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
The Piano Quintet ConnectionHow nine composers worked out their own answers on joining a piano and a string quartet, from Boccherini to Brahms to Shostakovich. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
The Wordless ConnectionWorks that combine wordless vocals with instruments of the orchestra, by Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Nielsen, Holst, Vaughan Williams, and more. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
The Crowning ConnectionMusic for eight coronations—real, imaginary—and somewhere in between—by Handel, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Walton, and more Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
