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Host Rob Kapilow shares his insights into the duo's music Monday (2/17) at 8 pm.

This week's episode Monday (3/3 at 8 pm) takes the audience through Haydn's Quartet Op. 76 No. 1.

Celebrating Ravel's 150th birthday this Friday (3/7, rebroadcast 3/8)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is the featured composer on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/13 3:00 p.m.) and his 1881 work based on a Russian folk legend. “The Snow Maiden” is an allegorical story dealing with the conflict of “eternal forces of nature” involving the interactions of humans, mythological characters, and those who are a combination of the two. It was said to have been Rimsky-Korsakov’s favorite opera.

Different pianists for each of the Brahms Op. 76 piano pieces this Friday (4/11, rebroadcast Saturday 4/12)

A Tempo this Saturday (4/5) previews the Princeton Symphony’s upcoming season and its plans for this summer’s Princeton Festival.

Many don’t realize that Franz Joseph Haydn wrote operas because they all seemed to disappear when he died. However, on this week’s Sunday Opera (4/4 3:00 p.m.), we’ll hear one of them, number 11 of 13, in a lovely recording from 2009. “La fedleta premiata” (“Fidelity Rewarded”) was first performed in Hungary in 1781 to celebrating the reopening of the Eszterhaza theatre after it was destroyed by fire. The cast was reduced and most of the low comedy removed, and its new version was performed in 1782. It was a miracle of its day having been written for a “state-of-the-art” theatre that had the latest innovations in stage machinery which it fully used.

This performance from February features works in transcription by Beethoven, Chopin, and Smetana. Listen Monday (4/7) at 8 pm.