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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.
New Year’s Eve Midnight Special
December 31, 2019, 8:00 pm
Rich Warren plays listener requests and welcomes a live audience to Levin Studio to hear four stellar folk performers. An annual WFMT tradition.
Eastern Orthodox Christmas Music with Andrew Patner
December 30, 2019, 10:00 pm
A rebroadcast from WFMT’s late critic-at-large, in which he explores this lesser-known holiday repertory.
Pierné’s Les Enfants à Bethléem
December 30, 2019, 8:00 pm
Gabriel Pierné’s charming Christmas choral work performed by musicians of the French Radio.
Matthew Halls conducts the Messiah
December 29, 2019
The beloved holiday tradition returns to Symphony Center once more with this performance of Handel’s Messiah conducted by Matthew Halls featuring Amanda Forsythe, Sasha Cooke, Nicholas Phan, Joshua Hopkins, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus under the direction of Duain Wolfe.
Itzhak Perlman’s Hanukkah Radio Party
December 29, 2019, 7:00 pm
The illustrious violinist samples a great variety of music for the Jewish Festival of Lights.
Waltzes for New Year’s Eve
December 28, 2019
Put on your dancing shoes! Bring in the new year with Arias and Songs in an all-waltz program. Featured selections include Cristina Deutekom singing a Strauss waltz, the Boston Pops Orchestra play waltzes from Lehar’s The Count of Luxembourg, Julie Andrews asking, “Do I Hear a Waltz” by Richard Rodgers, and Lucine Amara coquettishly singing ‘Musetta’s Waltz’ from La bohème.
Celebrating 2019 and Ringing in 2020
December 28, 2019
On Saturday’s broadcast, we celebrate an incredible year of music-making! We’ll feature the winner of the 2019 Crain-Maling Foundation Chicago Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition, as well as our live broadcast from the second annual Youth Arts Showcase at Millennium Park, featuring a brass ensemble from Merit School of Music and Latin Grammy-nominated Mariachi Herencia de Mexico.
Hanukkah
December 27, 2019
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 and Theo Bikel, and some klezmer music, too. In the second half, Studs reads Grace Paley’s short story, “Good-bye and Good Luck”. First aired: 12/5/1988
Christmas with Seconda Prat!ca & The Tallis Scholars
December 25, 2019
Baroque&Before’s special 2-hour Christmas edition opens with musical traditions of Portugal of the 15th to 17th centuries, performed by the Amsterdam-based early music ensemble Seconda Prat!ca. Recorded live in concert in the Reichssaal, Old Town Hall, Regensburg, as part of the Regensburg Early Music Festival. The second part of tonight’s program features the renowned Tallis Scholars at the Temple Winter ...