From the New World

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Dvořák wrote it in 1893, while running a music conservatory in New York, and it premiered at Carnegie Hall that December. Listen for the English horn in the slow second movement. That melody later became the song "Goin' Home."

Schubert wrote this music in 1823 for a play called Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus. The play closed after two nights. The music has outlived it by two centuries, and these two entr'actes show why.

A brilliant pianist and composer, and Felix Mendelssohn's older sister, she wrote this overture around 1830 to 1832. It is the only orchestral work she composed, and it was never published in her lifetime.