Burt Bacharach & Daniel Tashian: Tiny De...

The reggaetón superstar kicks off our "El Tiny" takeover of the Tiny Desk (home) concert series. 

The pop singer premieres new music with family and friends for her "El Tiny" home concert. 

The Colombian indie rock band performs a colorful and funky four-song set from their home country's capital, Bogotá. 

Burt Bacharach is a living legend. He's written hits sung by Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, Dusty Springfield and so many more. With that kind of a resume, he doesn't need to still be working at 92. But he recently found a new muse in collaborator Daniel Tashian ... Show More

Synopsis On today’s date in 1883, the premiere of Antonín Dvořák’s Violin Concerto was given in Prague by Czech violinist František Ondrícek with the National Theatre Orchestra, led by Czech conductor Moric Anger, an old friend of Dvořák’s and his onetime roommate. The concerto w ... Show More

Music from The Rock Bottom Remainders Tiny Desk Concert performance at NPR. Authors Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, Roy Blount Jr., Kathy Kamen Goldmark and Sam Barry didn't bring any instruments to their performance at Bob Boilen's desk. But they were smart eno ... Show More

To mark Bach's 339th birthday, historical recordings of the Brandenburg Concerto 3 and the B Minor Prelude and Fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier.  

Juggling violin, beatboxing and both English and Japanese vocals, Kishi Bashi is a one-man orchestra who blends a mess of ingredients into a symphony of loop-pedaled wonders. Watch him build his music one melody at a time, live in concert at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. on Ap ... Show More

Synopsis As Leipzig’s chief provider of both sacred and secular music, Johann Sebastian Bach probably gave a huge sigh of relief on today’s date in 1733. The death of Imperial Elector Friedrich Augustus the First of Saxony earlier that year had resulted in a four-month period of ... Show More

John Wilson concludes the seventh series of Mastertapes, the programme in which he talks to leading artists about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios, each edition includes John initially quizzing t ... Show More

A Violin Concerto in G minor, Opus 26, became the best-known work of the German composer Max Bruch. Originally written in 1866 it went through many revisions before finally being completed in 1867. It was performed extensively but having sold both the publishing and the manuscrip ... Show More

Synopsis There’s a long list of composers ranging from Vivaldi to Messiaen who have incorporated bird song into their musical works. Today we make note of one of them. On this date in 1893, great Czech composer Antonín Dvořák was vacationing with his family in Spillville, Iowa, s ... Show More