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An all-Scarlatti Holiday Bash

This delightful Christmas fantasy takes place through Christmas Eve to Christmas morning and finds the young smith named Vakula traveling to St. Petersburg on the back of the devil in order to get the Tsarina's slippers as a gift for his love.

This week's program is a long-forgotten 1897 opera "Das Unmoglichste von Allem" ("The Most Impossible Thing of All") by a sadly forgotten late-Romantic era German composer, Anton Urspruch.

A Tempo this Saturday (12/9 at 7 pm) looks at a recent digital opera production that doesn’t rely on video.

A portrait of the legendary American piano duo.

Out-of-print piano treasures.

Host Rob Kapilow this Monday (12/11) looks at the Jewish composers who wrote classic American Christmas songs.

This week's Sunday Opera is featuring Claude Debussy's only opera, 1902's "Pelleas et Melesande." Premiering to wildly mixed responses from audiences and critics alike, it's gone on to be considered by many to be a landmark musical work of the 20th century. This performance features Will Liverman and Sydney Mancasola in the title roles.

A Tempo this Saturday (12/2 at 7 pm) looks ahead to an upcoming program of contemporary piano music based on traditional Byzantine and Jewish chants.