Richard Strauss turns the familiar fairy tale trope on its head in his Duet Concertino; it's the princess who does the rescuing this time. Tune in at 9 a.m. on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our music stream.

Do you hear the horn? It’s calling us into the world of Puck, Titania, and Oberon. Wake up in the fairy world with the Oberon overture by Carl Maria von Weber on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

This is an Adès at ease with himself, at ease with his material, at ease with his means, and prepared to delight as well as dazzle. The opening “Inferno” section is a series of discrete dances, ...

It's worth noting that Beethoven's final piano sonatas weren't his last works; there was still a lot of music in him. Performing them as weighty, epic closing statements can smother the sonatas’ ...