A Christmas Celebration
December 20, 2020
As we prepare for the eve of Christmas, we’ll begin the festivities with music to celebrate the arrival of the Christ Child on this edition of With Heart and Voice. Tune in as Peter DuBois shares sacred choral and organ treasures of the season.
Latin American Christmas Carols
December 19, 2020
A selection of villancicos or Christmas carols from Spain and Latin America are featured on this Christmas themed program from Fiesta. Join us for music that spans several centuries and a great diversity of influences and traditions.
A Program for the Holidays
December 19, 2020
A holiday collection of religious and secular favorites sung by Kiri Te Kanawa, Robert Shaw Chorale, Kathleen Ferrier, Richard Tauber, and more.
Tchaikovsky: ‘Nutcracker’ excerpts
December 19, 2020, 3:00 pm
A Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance conducted by Fritz Reiner.
Humperdinck’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’
December 19, 2020
Donald Runnicles conducts this family-friendly, English-language 2018 performance featuring Lisette Oropesa (Gretel), Tara Erraught (Hansel), Dolora Zajick (Gertrude), and Gerhard Siegel (Witch).
Hanukkah (12/05/1988)
December 18, 2020
It was in December 1988 that Studs Terkel presented this musical tribute to Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights. The hour begins with songs of Martha Schlamme, Theo Bikel, and some klezmer music, too. In the second half, Studs reads Grace Paley’s short story, “Good-bye and Good Luck”.
December 14 – December 18, 2020
December 18, 2020
This week on Music in Chicago, we'll hear holiday performances by the St. Charles Singers and Chicago Choral Artists, a live concert by the Avalon Quartet at the Chicago Cultural Center, and encore broadcasts of the Orion String Quartet and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in WFMT's Impromptu series.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
December 18, 2020
During this festive Impromptu from 2015, members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performed a pair of the great Brandenburg Concertos by Bach: No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050, and No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051.
Itzhak Perlman’s Hanukkah Radio Party
December 17, 2020, 8:00 pm
The illustrious violinist samples a great variety of music for the Jewish Festival of Lights.
Benjamin Britten: ‘A Ceremony of Carols’
December 17, 2020, 2:00 pm
The Westminster Abbey Choir performs this perennial holiday favorite.
Wicker Park Choral Singers [Rebroadcast]
December 14, 2020
A rebroadcast of a performance from December 10, 2012, the Wicker Park Choral Singers present a diverse programs featuring music from around the world entitled “It Takes A Village.”
Apollo’s Fire: Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain
December 13, 2020, 7:00 pm
Critically acclaimed early music ensemble Apollo’s Fire shares a festive, Irish-Appalachian celebration.
Advent 3, Song of Mary
December 13, 2020
Mary, Mother of Jesus, features prominently in this program of music celebrating her and her response to the news that she will give birth to Christ. Join Peter DuBois for this important step on the Advent journey.
A Hanukkah Celebration with Chicago a cappella
December 12, 2020, 6:00 pm
Join Jonathan Miller, artistic director of Chicago a cappella and a longtime champion of Jewish choral music, for an inspiring and informative show featuring choral music set to Chanukah texts.
Vivaldi’s ‘Magnificat’
December 12, 2020
Sacred music is heard in a program consisting of the Magnificat by Antonio Vivaldi. Riccardo Muti conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus with soloists Teresa Berganza and Lucia Valentini Terrani.
December 7 – December 11, 2020
December 11, 2020
This week on Music in Chicago, we'll hear recordings by Camerata Chicago and Music of the Baroque, a new holiday album by the Chicago Chamber Choir, a live recital from the Chicago Cultural Center, and an encore broadcast of WFMT's Impromptu series.
Max Richter’s ‘Voices’
December 10, 2020, 8:00 pm
In a worldwide broadcast in honor of the UN Human Rights Day, this performance features narration in several languages of excerpts from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
A Sephardic Hanukkah
December 9, 2020
Baroque&Before marks Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, with a program of sacred, paraliturgical, celebratory, and secular music of the Jews of the Mediterranean: Spain, Greece, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. Tonight’s program will be available on demand for two weeks following the broadcast. Please visit wfmt.com/listen.
Born To Live
January 3, 2020
The Best of Studs Terkel on WFMT presents a long-time New Year’s broadcast tradition. It’s “Born to Live,” a program of interviews, spoken word, and musical responses to the nuclear age that Studs produced in 1961 with colleague Jim Unrath. “Born to Live” won the Prix Italia, an award Studs described as “the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for radio ...
New Year’s in Vienna
January 1, 2020, 10:00 am
An almost-live presentation of the annual Strauss concert by the Vienna Philharmonic in its venerable Musikverein. Andris Nelsons conducts.
