Listen to This for a Good Friday: We consider the spurious Mozart/Allegri story, hear the famous Miserere from the Cambridge Singers, and the Duccio-inspired violin concerto from Frank Martin, Polyptyque.

Two works, one small and one large. The middle movement of Mozart's clarinet concerto, and the monumental Third Piano Concerto of Rachmaninoff. It's Listen To This with Dr. J!

In this episode of Listen To This, Dr. J introduces us to a few composers with a deathly fear of Friday the 13th... with good reason, it turns out!

March madness! Josh Nannestad moves us smartly forward in step with music of Sousa, Elgar, and Karl King. Unusual submissions from Stravinsky, Liszt, Grieg, and more.

An hour of chamber music. Schubert and Debussy frame a conversation with Seth May-Patterson, violist.

During this Black History Month, host Josh Nannestad leads us through exceptional western art music from Black composers and performers. We feature Undine Smith Moore, William Dawson, Florence Price, Randall Goosby, Leontyne Price, Justin Holland, Reginald Mobley, and Scott Joplin.

Host Josh Nannestad chats with two performers about to visit Siouxland: Darrel Fickbohm of Flower and Flame, and Tim Steele of the Coretta Scott King concert. Music of Mozart, Florence Price, and Leena McLin.

On this episode of Listen To This: Dr. J takes us through the genre of toccata, through the centuries. Frescobaldi, Bach, Ravel, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Britten and Widor.

Music for difficult times: selections from the Bach cello suite in d minor and Shostakovich Symphony #8. Also, a performance of a few of the Pictures at an Exhibition by the Minnesota Orchestra and Eiji Oue.

Josh Nannestad explores connections between western art music and the work of American pop songwriter Paul Simon. Debussy, Bernstein, JS Bach, Beethoven, and Purcell are punctuated with several Simon tunes.