Few pianists know Chopin better than Garrick Ohlsson. In 1970, he became the first American ever to win the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw... one of the most prestigious piano competitions in the world.Hear Garrick Ohlsson in Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 tonight on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

Brigg Fair in Lincolnshire, England has been an annual gathering of the traveling community for over 800 years. At the fair, there are stories to tell and songs to sing. Settle in to hear an orchestral rhapsody on the folk song Brigg Fair by Frederick Delius.

April is National Garden Month, and you can stop and smell the MUSICAL flowers as you stroll through a magnificent harmonic garden cultivated by musicians with particularly fertile imaginations and creativity – including some Scottish suites named after seasonal spring flowers. It’s a musical bouquet on Sunday Baroque this week.

Philadelphia and Boston were instrumental in America’s founding. They’ve also shaped its music. Tonight on America 250: The American Experience, we hear the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, two ensembles that helped define the American orchestral tradition. That’s tonight at 8 on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

For anyone who isn’t familiar with the warm sound of the marimba, you’re in for a treat. Its bars are made of wood, and you can hear the connection with nature, perfect for Reverie by Claude Debussy.

Leonard Bernstein took the most electrifying moments from West Side Story and turned them into a concert showpiece. The Symphonic Dances capture the drama, the action and the romance. Get ready to shout "Mambo!" tonight on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

It takes two. Hear musical pairs this morning, from Johannes Brahms’ Love Song Waltzes for a couple of pianists, to guitar-playing brothers, to Mark O’Connor’s jazz-inflected Double Violin Concerto.

You may not know the name Palladio, but you’ve probably heard it. Karl Jenkins’ driving piece for strings became famous as the music behind the De Beers diamond commercials. Beyond the sparkle of advertising, Palladio is a brilliantly crafted concert work, inspired by the symmetry and balance of Renaissance architecture.Hear the piece that turned string orchestra into the sound of a diamond. Karl Jenkins’ Palladio, tonight on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

It’s easy to fall in love with Frederic Chopin’s piano music, especially the powerful cascade of notes you’ll hear in his Étude Op. 10, No. 1, known as the “Waterfall.”

Long before movies gave us the cliffhanger, Scheherazade mastered the art of leaving her audience wanting more. Her life depended on keeping a powerful sultan listening night after night. So every story ended at the exact moment he needed to hear what happened next.Rimsky-Korsakov turned that legend into music. Hear Scheherazade tonight on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.