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Aida: An Introduction to Verdi's Opera
by Thomson Smille
Aida is one of the most popular operas ever written, a sumptuous work which has moments of great drama, but which reminds us in the end that it's all about people--the greatest love affairs and the greatest affairs of state cliff themselves in simple humanity. | 
Beethoven
by Jeremy Siepmann
For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors' readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic… |
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Classical Music 101
by Fred Plotkin
Classical Music 101 is a highly accessible guide to discovering the glories of classical music. | 
Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love... |
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Handel As Orpheus
by Ellen Harris
MIT Professor of Music Ellen Harris discusses Handel's chamber cantatas written from 1706-23, from a social point of view, exposing the exclusive and secret homosexual society in which they were created. | 
A History of Music of the Western World
Explore the rudiments of music theory. Musical examples included. |
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The History of Opera
by Richard Fawkes
Opera, said Moliére, is the most expensive noise known to man. From its beginnings in the 16th Century, through to today when there... | 
Instruments of the Orchestra
by Jeremy Siepmann
Instruments of the orchestra, yes, but not just instruments in the orchestra. This is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present. |
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Keyboard Conversations: Mozart and Friends
by Jeffrey Siegel
World renowned concert pianist and conductor Jeffrey Siegel takes listeners on an intimate journey with this introduction to classical music and its masters, which invites listeners to experience great works in a whole new way, hearing the music as never before. | 
The Life of Mozart
by Edward Holmes
Edward Holmes, a schoolfellow of Keats, provides the first complete account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based upon Mozart's own letters and memoirs. |
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Masterpieces of Western Music
by Jeffrey Lependorf
From the "Spring" of Vivaldi's Four Seasons to Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, our appreciation of musical masterpieces can be deeply enhanced by an understanding of what makes them great. | 
Opera 101
by Fred Plotkin
Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher and former performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces listeners, whatever their level of musical knowledge, to all the riches of opera, the fastest growing of all the performing arts. |
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The World's 50 Greatest Composers
Fifty 60-minute audio sessions on 50 CDs that detail the lives, times, and music of history's greatest composers. |