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Our librarian organizes a vast and growing collection of Great Classical Music.

The Classical Station's 25,000-piece record archive is an Aladdin's cave of analog Great Classical Music.

You've heard announcer Jonathan Kramer's voice on The Classical Station—and his virtuoso cello playing.

A spell in the oven is just what an old CD needs to get back into digital-playing shape.

"Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the Earth’s greenings. Now, think." — HILDEGARD von BINGEN, on sources of musical inspiration

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. ~ Maurice Ravel

Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it. ~ Aaron Copland

Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. ~ Plato

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better. ~ George Frideric Handel

Simplicity is the final achievement of art. ~ Frédéric Chopin

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius. ~ Joseph Haydn

This Week at The Classical Station is on hiatus until 12 January 2026. Happy New Year from all of us at The Classical Station!

Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes wherein our savior’s birth is celebrated … the nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, no fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, so hallowed and so gracious is that time. ~ William Shakespeare from Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 1

My music is a white light which contains all colors. The prism which can divide those colors is the spirit of the listener. ~ Arvo Pärt