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A festive celebration of the 1920s & 30s from the Barbican in London.
The acclaimed, Minnesota-based Rose Ensemble returns with festive and evocative early music from Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, and beyond.
Conducted by principal guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer, this performance features soloists Sherezade Panthaki, soprano; Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano; Brian Giebler, tenor; Matthew Brook, bass-baritone.
Musicians of St Olaf College present their 2021 holiday concert.
Bohola (Jimmy Keane & Pat Boaders) from the Levin Studio 12/24/2005.
The 360-member chorus invokes nostalgia for the 1960s & 1970s.
Featuring students and alumni from DePaul’s School of Music and Theatre School with the DePaul Community Chorus.
“The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays,” hosted by Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, features music from holiday favorites and other wintry classics.
At 6:30 pm each weeknight for the weeks of December 20-24 and December 27-31, join Candice Agree for a world tour of Christmas music!
A Chicago tradition, conducted by William Jon Gray.
The annual service broadcast from King’s College Chapel of Cambridge University.
Critically acclaimed early music ensemble Apollo’s Fire shares a festive, Irish-Appalachian celebration.
The superb 12-man ensemble performs holiday classics.
A WFMT Network special, hosted by Sara Schneider.
Host Rich Warren welcomes Chicago’s original Klezmer revival band to celebrate Hanukkah live from Hinsdale.
The virtuoso vocal ensemble’s celebration of the musical traditions of Hanukkah, hosted by Jonathan Miller.
The illustrious violinist samples a great variety of music for the Jewish Festival of Lights.
Rita Jacobs Willens’s reminiscence of Jewish immigrant life in early 20th-century America. A long-time listener favorite, the work was created in 1979.
Experience Healing Ceremony, a world premiere recording of American composer Marc Neikrug’s new work for orchestra and voices.
In the very first live performance in the new Bradley Symphony Center, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and music director Ken-David Masur welcome pianist Aaron Diehl to perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Also included in this live radio broadcast is music by Duke Ellington, Stravinsky, as well as contemporary composers James B. Wilson and Eric Nathan.
Renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman shares meaningful recordings in honor of the Jewish High Holidays: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
The 9/11 attacks occurred twenty years ago this month, and WFMT will mark that somber anniversary with a variety of special content. Folkstage, The Midnight Special, and With Heart and Voice will look back with music; Exploring Music’s theme is Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace); and at 4:00 pm Saturday, hear Kevin Puts’ Symphony No. 2, Island of Innocence.
Special: Join host Maggie Clennon Reberg as she celebrates the 50th anniversary of Chicago’s treasured early music ensemble Music of the Baroque.
Explores the instrument made from a ram’s horn that is heard around the world during the Jewish High Holidays.
Dave Schwan hosts a performance from the North Shore Chamber Music Festival, recorded in June, featuring the Piano Quintet by Franck and works by Moszkowski, Sarasate, and Fauré.