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Sergei Taneyev's Symphony No. 4 is a great piece of Romantic Russian music, and it's not played nearly often enough. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra play it in concert in Rotterdam.

Jonathan Biss believes that Robert Schumann is the most poetic of all composers, because of his effortless ability to create intensely emotional music. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear Biss play Schumann's heart-piercing Forest Scenes in concert in Schenectady.

Because of Robert Schumann's ability to create intensely beautiful, emotional music, Jonathan Biss believes that is the most poetic of all composers. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear Biss play an example of Schumann's musical poetry; his heart-piercing Forest Scenes.

On Thursday's Performance Today, Janine Jansen teams up with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for a performance of Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1.

Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a great composer. Then, one of our listeners calls in and tries to guess two things: the tune, and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking. Play along with our weekly musical game, on Wednesday's Performance Today.

The story of Don Juan taps a deep territory in the human psyche: love, betrayal, excess, and death. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Richard Strauss's explosive tone poem based on the story of Don Juan.

The Sphinx Competition is an annual event for young African American and Latino string players. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll speak to the winner and hear performance highlights from this past weekend's competition in Detroit.

On Performance Today, we're launching a conversation about the value of diversity in classical music. Does it matter? And if so, what can and should we do about it? Our list of thought-provoking interviews will grow over the course of the year, so keep coming back to see and hear more.

Ferruccio Busoni's Piano Concerto is a massive, ambitious piece of music for full orchestra, 48 male singers, and a really, really good pianist. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear it from a concert in Warsaw, featuring Garrick Ohlsson and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.