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Segment 1: How Ukranians view the whistleblower caseFor many Americans, the whistleblower scandal surrounding President Trump is a matter of politics and…

Internet pirates are hiding on college computer networks, despite the schools’ efforts to get rid of them. Arrrgh. The Techsperts - Dustin Jacobsen and…

With his third piano concerto, Beethoven truly found his own voice. His chaotic life almost sabotaged the premiere, but the music was more powerful than chaos. Enjoy this remarkable recording with Arturo Toscanini conducting and Myra Hess on piano.

Today's episode features Adolph Sylvester Herseth, Jr., a unique talent who for 53 seasons held the principal trumpet chair in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with brilliance. Herseth persevered a great many challenges and was even able to impress the stern CSO conductor Fritz Reiner.

Surprise symphonies are high quality works that may have escaped your attention, so we showcase them on “From the Archives.” This show features two youthful symphonies by Norwegian composer Johan Svendsen and German operatic dynamo Carl Maria von Weber. It only makes us wish that they had each composed more symphonies.

We’re just days after Christmas and, in the spirit of the 12 days of Christmas, we have a sleigh full of great music from Tchaikovsky to Tiomkin to delight and entertain you. We’ll hear a fabulous recording of music from The Nutcracker, as well as music by Bach, Humperdinck, Rimsky-Korsakov and selections from the immortal film score to “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Happy 2021! For many decades music lovers have enjoyed the New Year’s concerts from Vienna with the Vienna Philharmonic. In this show we have our own Viennese New Year’s extravaganza with sparkling music by the Strauss family Johann (Sr. and II), Eduard, and Josef, and some of the best conductors of this music – Clemens Krauss, Carlos Kleiber, Herbert von Karajan and Willi Boskovsky. It’s a fabulous and fun hour of music.

Sir Thomas Beecham had flair, on and off the podium. His considerable experience in opera gave him a remarkable sense of proportion, pacing and – in the best sense of the word – theatricality. That made Beecham performances anything but routine. In this show, we will hear two live Beecham performances with the Royal Philharmonic, including a thrilling Brahms Symphony No. 2. Wagner’s Rienzi Overture provides the ideal first course.

In this episode, Stephen Steigman and Dawn Schnake chat with Elizabeth Suh Lane and Elisa Williams Bickers from Bach Aria Soloists. They share music from their album "Hausmusik," and from a streamed performance recorded in September 2020.

Lawmakers in Missouri are fresh off of passing the biggest budget in state history. Now the General Assembly has just a few days left to make decisions on several big issues, all just a few months before an election.