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This coming weekend is one of your favorite theme weekends: Russian Romantics Weekend. We'll be playing works by Modeste Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and more on Saturday and Sunday. Don't forget to request your favorite Russian Romantic pieces on All Request Friday and the Saturday Evening Request Program. Photo of Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow by Tsy1980, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia.org

The Violin Channel reports that "To honor the 19-year tenure of their music director Osmo Vänskä, the orchestra has begun a three-week celebration with Jean Sibelius’ works." Photo by Joel Larson.

Writing in New York Magazine, Shawn McCreesh reports on the financial situation facing the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Metropolitan Opera

This winter, we begin the radio broadcast season of the Met Opera, and we have lots of festive music planned for the end-of-year holidays and celebrations, as well as Beethovenfest, Russian Romantics Weekend, Mozart Madness, and Simply Strings Weekend. (Photo of a scene from The Magic Flute credit to Richard Termine and the Metropolitan Opera.)

There are many legends about the great violin virtuoso. One of the most familiar is, of course, that Paganini must have been in league with the devil in order to have developed such remarkable skill with his instrument.

James Ohnes, Jonathan Bagg, Sergei Kvitko and more. 6 p.m. Eastern.

Catalyst Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, Thomas, Dausgaard, and more.

Beautiful Christmas music on Lullabies and Carols, A Renaissance Christmas, The Great Music of Christmas, and the St. Olaf Christmas Festival. Photo: “Christmas Decoration” by Hades2k, Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Randall Goosby, Trio Wanderer, Sir András Schiff, and more. | 6 p.m.

Andrew Manze, The King's Singer's, Anthony McGill, and more. 6 p.m. Eastern

The Guardian reports on the death of Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink. Photo: Anefo, Croes, R.C., CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons

Jan Lisiecki, lina Ibragimova, Zixiang Wang, and more.

New York Times writer Javier C. Hernández reports on the backlog of visas for musicians booked to perform in the U.S. Photo: "Clearing U.S. Immigration at Dublin Airport" by Can Pac Swire is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Augustin Hadelich, Cuarteto Casals, The Kanneh-Mason family, and more. 6 p.m. Eastern.