Welcome to season of long-form storytelling that follows the lives and revolutions of the great composers—how their cities, rivals, scandals, and breakthroughs shaped the music we still lean on today. We move chronologically from the craft of Bach and Handel through Mozart’s theatre of feeling, Beethoven’s insurgent will, and the 19th-century expansion of the orchestra with Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky; then into the shocks of modernism—Mahler’s vast architectures, Debussy’s color and light, Ravel’s precision, and the fractured century of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartók, and Schoenberg. Each episode is a cinematic, voice-first narrative that sets scenes, humanizes the myth, and links signature works to the world that produced them—war and courts, salons and factories, love affairs and late-night manuscripts—so listeners come away hearing familiar music as if for the first time.
Produced by Selenius Media and The Artificial Laboratory.