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Listen Master Cellist Plays Dvorak's Classic Concerto
March 3, 2009 – Hear Mstislav Rostropovich's powerful performance of Dvorak's American-made Cello Concerto.
Listen Beethoven's Best: The Ultimate 5th Symphony
February 24, 2009 – Carlos Kleiber leads the Vienna Philharmonic in a sinuous, violent rendition of Beethoven's classic.
Listen John Adams: Nixon, Minimalism And Mao
February 17, 2009 – The foxtrot Adams wrote as a warm-up for his opera Nixon in China has become a classic.
Listen Russian Valentine: Prokofiev's Romeo And Juliet
February 10, 2009 – Prokofiev's passionate, often violent music makes the tale of star-crossed lovers sound fresh.
Listen Felix Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Sounds
February 3, 2009 – Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth by soaking up his "Scottish Symphony."
Listen Gustav Holst's Peerless 'Planets'
June 16, 2009 – John Eliot Gardiner takes a thorough, meticulous approach to his recording of The Planets.
Listen Vivaldi: A Man For All Seasons
June 9, 2009 – The Venice Baroque Orchestra performs an animated rendition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Listen Van Cliburn's Classic Tchaikovsky
June 2, 2009 – Hear the lanky Texan's iconic Tchaikovsky recording, made just after his historic Moscow victory.
Listen Haydn's Finest, For London
May 26, 2009 – In London, the composer lapped up a wealth of praise, and composed a formidable set of symphonies.
Listen Verdi's Operatic, Transcendent Requiem
May 19, 2009 – The great opera composer added compassion and plenty of drama to his Requiem Mass.
Listen Mozart's Turbulent Final Symphonies
May 12, 2009 – Late in his career, Mozart explored feelings of emotional agitation and passion in his symphonies.
Listen Vladimir Horowitz: The Piano Titan Returns
May 5, 2009 – After a self-imposed 12-year exile, Horowitz triumphed at Carnegie Hall on May 9, 1965.
Listen 'Carmina Burana,' Music Of Monks And Drunks
April 27, 2009 – Carl Orff transformed bawdy medieval poetry into one of the 20th century's most popular works.
Listen Puccini's 'La Boheme' At Its Best
April 21, 2009 – Critic Ted Libby explains why La Boheme is perhaps the best-loved opera of all time.
Listen Handel's Flood Of Melodies: 'Water Music'
April 13, 2009 – In celebrating the great composer, critic Ted Libbey picks the ultimate Water Music CD.
Listen Bach's Mass In B Minor: A Cathedral In Sound
April 7, 2009 – Bach's Mass is as lofty in design, scope and expression as anything written by the hand of man.
Listen Brahms' Best: The Violin Concerto
March 31, 2009 – Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter's live performance is intense, angry and soaringly gorgeous.
Listen The Pastoral Power of 'Appalachian Spring'
March 24, 2009 – Aaron Copland's clear, light and open textures give his ballet a quiet strength.
Listen Stravinsky's Most Raging 'Rite Of Spring'
March 17, 2009 – Just in time for the vernal equinox, hear a recording of the Rite that roars like thunder.
Listen Claude Debussy's Painterly Preludes
September 29, 2009 – The subtle, elusive quality of Debussy's 24 preludes is captured perfectly by pianist Paul Jacobs.
Listen The Autumnal Glow Of Strauss' Four Last Songs
September 22, 2009 – Hear the extraordinary opulence soprano Jessye Norman brings to Strauss' final songs.
Listen Beethoven's Carefully Choreographed Violence
September 15, 2009 – Hear pianist Emil Gilels bring his brand of leonine passion to three of Beethoven's best sonatas.
Listen Appealing To The Masses: Brahms' Requiem
September 8, 2009 – Hear conductor Otto Klemperer's soulful rendering of Brahms' personal and rapturous Requiem.
Listen Best Of Broadway: Bernstein's 'West Side Story'
September 1, 2009 – The original Broadway cast recording still sounds fresh more than 50 years after the show opened.
Listen Mravinsky's Supercharged Tchaikovsky
August 25, 2009 – Evgeny Mravinsky conducts Tchaikovsky's final symphonies with an intensity rarely heard.
Listen Schubert Most Sublime: The String Quintet In C
August 18, 2009 – Hear Schubert's personal brand of lyrical melancholy in his innovative String Quintet in C.
Listen Brahms' 4th Symphony At Full Strength
August 11, 2009 – Hear conductor Carlos Kleiber bring out all the pent-up emotions in Brahms' final symphony.
Listen Gold Standard For Bach's 'Goldberg Variations'
August 4, 2009 – Murray Perahia's fleet fingers and seasoned musicality make this a Bach recording for the ages.
Listen Mozart's Forward-Looking 'Magic Flute'
July 28, 2009 – Ted Libbey recommends an all-star cast performance of Mozart's last opera, The Magic Flute.
Listen Pastoral Passion: Ravel's 'Daphnis and Chloe'
July 21, 2009 – Jean Martinon conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in this sensual recording of Ravel's ballet.
Listen Josquin Des Prez's Luminous Sound
July 14, 2009 – Pure and expressive, his Missa Pange Lingua is at the summit of Renaissance masses.
Listen Brilliant Beethoven By The Emerson Quartet
July 7, 2009 – The group defies the difficulties inherent in performing Beethoven's 16 string quartets.
Listen Rhapsody In Blue: Gershwin At His Greatest
June 30, 2009 – Leonard Bernstein performs American music with mid-century flair in this 1959 recording.
Listen Debussy's La Mer
June 23, 2009 – Claude Debussy's La Mer is an impressionistic vision of the sheer power of the ocean.
Hear and read stories about each of the 50 vocalists profiled in our special series. You can also download the podcast, explore more than 100 nominations and find out more about the series.
Sezen Aksu: The Voice Of Istanbul
Biggie Smalls: The Voice That Influenced A Generation
Asha Bhosle: The Voice Of Bollywood And More
Bjork: A Celestial Voice
Dennis Brown: The 'Crown Prince' Of Reggae
Buika: The Voice Of Freedom
Montserrat Caballe: A Voice Of Passionate Grandeur
Maria Callas: Voice Of Perfect Imperfection
Enrico Caruso, And Confessions Of An Operaholic
Twinkie Clark: Riffing On Gospel
Radmilla Cody: Two Cultures, One Voice
Nat King Cole: An Incandescent Voice
Celia Cruz: The Voice From Havana
Camaron De La Isla: The Voice Of Flamenco
Sandy Denny: Mercurial Queen Of British Folk Rock
Placido Domingo: The Spellbinding Voice Of A Titan Tenor
Fairuz: Lebanon's Voice Of Hope
Ella Fitzgerald: America's First Lady Of Song
Carlos Gardel: Argentina's Tango Maestro
Donny Hathaway: Neglected Heart Of Soul
The Many Voices Of Lauryn Hill
Billie Holiday: Emotional Power Through Song
Howlin' Wolf: Booming Voice Of The Blues
Iggy Pop: The Voice As Weapon
Mahalia Jackson: Voice Of The Civil Rights Movement
George Jones: The Voice Of Heartbreak
Janis Joplin: The Queen Of Rock
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole: The Voice Of Hawaii
Khaled: The King Of Rai
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Voice Of Pakistan
Umm Kulthum: 'The Lady' Of Cairo
John McCormack: The Charming Irish Tenor
Lydia Mendoza: The First Lady Of Tejano
Freddie Mercury: Rock 'N' Roll's Humble Showman
Meredith Monk: A Voice For All Time
Youssou N'Dour: The Voice Of Senegal
Roy Orbison: A Great Voice, A Lonely Sound
Robert Plant: Born In England; Made In America
Esma Redzepova: 'Queen Of The Gypsies'
Dianne Reeves: A Jazz Voice With Pop Sensibilities
Elis Regina: The Feeling Between The Notes
Amalia Rodrigues: The Voice Of Extreme Expression
Yossele Rosenblatt: The Cantor With The Heavenly Voice
Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Protest Through Poetry
Irma Thomas: The Soul Queen Of New Orleans
Luther Vandross: The Velvet Voice
Chavela Vargas: The Voice Of Triumph
Kitty Wells: The Queen Of Country Music
Jackie Wilson: The Singer And The Showman
Ahmad Zahir: The Voice Of The Golden Years
Listen Steve Reich's 'Maximum' Minimalism
January 12, 2010 – The composer's Music for 18 Musicians brings elements of "maximalism" to minimalism.
Listen John Dowland's Art Of Melancholy
January 5, 2010 – The dark, wistful mood that pervades Dowland's lute music was, in its day, a sign of maturity.
Listen Mahler's Apocalyptic Second Symphony
December 29, 2009 – Mahler answered the metaphysical challenge of Beethoven's Ninth with the "Resurrection" Symphony.
Listen Handel's Miraculous 'Messiah'
December 22, 2009 – Hear the composer's oratorio — which is, by any measure, the greatest choral work in English.
Listen Monteverdi's Pioneering 'Vespers'
December 15, 2009 – Monteverdi's set of Vespers illustrated a mastery of blending Renaissance and Baroque styles.
Listen Schubert's Desolate 'Winter Journey'
December 8, 2009 – The solitary and psychological mix in Schubert's masterful song cycle, Winterreise.
Listen Bartok's Best 'Concerto For Orchestra'
December 1, 2009 – The Chicago Symphony, playing as if it had been set on fire, set a standard for Bartok back in 1955.
Listen Dvorak's Symphony For A 'New World'
November 24, 2009 – The Bohemian composer claimed "everyone who has a nose must smell America" in his Symphony No. 9.
Listen Wagner's Overtures In Full-Spectrum Sound
November 17, 2009 – Powerful orchestral sounds, as well as silence, elicit an emotional response from the listener.
Listen Quiet Anguish In Elgar's Cello Concerto
November 10, 2009 – Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre exposes both the tenderness and pain in Elgar's late-career concerto.
Listen Bach's Best 'Brandenburg' Concertos
November 3, 2009 – Simultaneously subtle and brilliant, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are a microcosm of Baroque music.
Listen Berlioz's Unbridled 'Symphonie Fantastique'
October 27, 2009 – Hear a musical treat for Halloween that still sounds fiercely psychedelic and sweepingly romantic.
Listen Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphonic 'Coup'
October 20, 2009 – The Symphony No. 5 achieves a "victorious" closer that ends with the triumph of evil over good.
Listen Liszt: Surmounting The Ultimate Piano Sonata
October 13, 2009 – Franz Liszt's multi-layered sonata can spark a powerful emotional experience in the listener.
Listen Sibelius' 5th Symphony: A Song For Swans
October 6, 2009 – Inspired by swans in flight, Jean Sibelius introduces some of his best ideas in his fifth symphony.
bonus:
50 Great Voices:
Sezen Aksu: The Voice Of Istanbul
Biggie Smalls: The Voice That Influenced A Generation
Asha Bhosle: The Voice Of Bollywood And More
Bjork: A Celestial Voice
Dennis Brown: The 'Crown Prince' Of Reggae
Buika: The Voice Of Freedom
Montserrat Caballe: A Voice Of Passionate Grandeur
Maria Callas: Voice Of Perfect Imperfection
Enrico Caruso, And Confessions Of An Operaholic
Twinkie Clark: Riffing On Gospel
Radmilla Cody: Two Cultures, One Voice
Nat King Cole: An Incandescent Voice
Celia Cruz: The Voice From Havana
Camaron De La Isla: The Voice Of Flamenco
Sandy Denny: Mercurial Queen Of British Folk Rock
Placido Domingo: The Spellbinding Voice Of A Titan Tenor
Fairuz: Lebanon's Voice Of Hope
Ella Fitzgerald: America's First Lady Of Song
Carlos Gardel: Argentina's Tango Maestro
Donny Hathaway: Neglected Heart Of Soul
The Many Voices Of Lauryn Hill
Billie Holiday: Emotional Power Through Song
Howlin' Wolf: Booming Voice Of The Blues
Iggy Pop: The Voice As Weapon
Mahalia Jackson: Voice Of The Civil Rights Movement
George Jones: The Voice Of Heartbreak
Janis Joplin: The Queen Of Rock
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole: The Voice Of Hawaii
Khaled: The King Of Rai
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Voice Of Pakistan
Umm Kulthum: 'The Lady' Of Cairo
John McCormack: The Charming Irish Tenor
Lydia Mendoza: The First Lady Of Tejano
Freddie Mercury: Rock 'N' Roll's Humble Showman
Meredith Monk: A Voice For All Time
Youssou N'Dour: The Voice Of Senegal
Roy Orbison: A Great Voice, A Lonely Sound
Robert Plant: Born In England; Made In America
Esma Redzepova: 'Queen Of The Gypsies'
Dianne Reeves: A Jazz Voice With Pop Sensibilities
Elis Regina: The Feeling Between The Notes
Amalia Rodrigues: The Voice Of Extreme Expression
Yossele Rosenblatt: The Cantor With The Heavenly Voice
Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Protest Through Poetry
Irma Thomas: The Soul Queen Of New Orleans
Luther Vandross: The Velvet Voice
Chavela Vargas: The Voice Of Triumph
Kitty Wells: The Queen Of Country Music
Jackie Wilson: The Singer And The Showman
Ahmad Zahir: The Voice Of The Golden Years
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