The Great Courses’ highest-selling lecturer—music professor Robert Greenberg—unquestionably deserves his devoted following. Greenberg’s patent love for the music of the past is utterly endearing.

Things have changed since the last time Oakland musicologist-composer Robert Greenberg presented his Saturday morning San Francisco Performances concert-lecture series on Dmitri Shostakovich in 2006.

If you love classical music and enjoy curricula in the famous Great Courses catalogue delivered by top college professors, you probably know the work of Dr. Robert Greenberg. A renowned historian ...