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Hear commentator Rob Kapilow demonstrate how Mozart sets up our expectations but takes us in unpredictable directions in the String Quintet in G minor. His music, like a hologram, flashes back and forth between the simple and the complicated.

We often joke about how many people we can fit behind Bob Boilen's desk. We seem to push the boundary. But the first real test of our limits came when eight members of Dark Meat showed up to play.

Known for her honest and effortless live show, singer-songwriter Christina Courtin is as passionate about her music as she is about the honesty found within it. In a session from WXPN, she performs songs from her self-titled debut album.

A re-mastered, newly released back catalog of six albums by the Brit-punk band The Subhumans will remind you why people were knocked out by punk in the 1980s.

No one possessed the nerve, or ability, to perform Tchaikovsky's final symphonies with as much dark and passionate intensity as the Russian conductor Evgeny Mravinsky.

For those who can't wait to hear songs from Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's follow-up to Once, the pair played six new songs before performing the first-ever Tiny Desk Concert encore.

Jessye Norman's voice is built for Strauss' final songs, which sound at once intimate and grand. With impeccable control over phrasing, she sings long-breathed lines at the softest volume, yet with full tone.

Country singer George Strait is surpassed only by Elvis Presley and The Beatles in the number of platinum-selling albums he's had. Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews his new album, Twang.

Los Amigos Invisibles' members are true originals. For nearly 20 years, the Venezuelan sextet has been combining elements of funk, disco and jazz with Latin sounds to create a unique and groovy sound. In a session from WXPN, the band performs material from its new album, Commercial.

In July, thousands of NPR's All Songs Considered listeners cast votes for their favorite songs of 2009's first half. Bob Boilen, the show's host, discusses the results and plays some of listeners' favorite songs with NPR's Melissa Block.