Mondays at 8:00 pm
Ravinia is back, and so is WFMT's series of broadcasts from Highland Park.
From the hallowed grounds of one of the great summer music festivals in the US, WFMT brings you some of the summer's highlight performances from Ravinia Festival's beloved, intimate Martin Theatre and iconic, legendary Pavilion.
Concerts from the Ravinia Festival air during the summer. For the rest of the year, don't miss Live from WFMT.
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Ohlsson Plays Brahms 3
July 19, 2021
In the third program of the pianist’s Breadth of Brahms series, Ohlsson performs the Seven Fantasies, the Piano Sonata No. 3, and more.
Ohlsson Plays Brahms 2
July 12, 2021
In the second of four Brahms concerts, pianist Garrick Ohlsson plays more solo piano music, including the Handel Variations.
Live From Ravinia: CSO’s Opening Night With Marin Alsop
July 9, 2021, 7:45 pm
WFMT joins forces with Ravinia and the CSO to bring listeners a live broadcast of the orchestra’s first 2021 appearance at the festival. Chief conductor and curator Marin Alsop and pianist Jorge Federico Osorio join the orchestra in music by Joan Tower, Mozart, and Beethoven. Kerry Frumkin hosts from the Ravinia Pavillion, and George Preston hosts an introduction with commentary ...
Ohlsson Plays Brahms
July 5, 2021
Season premiere: Hear the first of four recitals this month by pianist Garrick Ohlsson, performing piano music by Johannes Brahms.
‘Considering Matthew Shepard’
September 28, 2020
Composer-conductor Craig Hella Johnson leads this performance of his 2016 oratorio commemorating LGBTQ hate crime victim Matthew Shepard featuring Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Conspirare.
Leon Fleisher — A master hand at Bach, Mozart, and more
September 21, 2020
From 2018: Accomplished pianist Leon Fleisher is joined by Katherine Jacobson Fleisher, piano; the Argus Quartet; and Kit Polen, double bass in this celebratory performance honoring Fleisher’s 90th birthday. Works by Bach, Mozart, and more.
Gary Hoffman and Jon Kimura Parker
September 14, 2020
Cellist Gary Hoffman returns to Ravinia for this recital of works by Debussy, Brahms, Fauré, and Rachmaninoff with accompaniment by pianist Jon Kimura Parker.
Dan Tepfer, piano
August 31, 2020
Dan Tepfer brings the world premiere of Inventions / Reinventions, featuring each of Bach’s Fifteen Inventions for solo keyboard paired with an improvised Invention by Tepfer.
Stile Antico
August 24, 2020
Stile Antico, one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, presents an imaginative program of sacred and secular choral music from Tudor England, recorded live at Ravinia Festival on June 18, 2019.
Bernstein’s ‘Songfest’
August 17, 2020
Leonard Bernstein’s Songfest, a cycle of American poems for six singers, is performed by the Caroga Arts Ensemble conducted by Alexander Platt, with vocalists from the Steans Music Institute and three poet-readers from the Poetry Foundation.
Alon Goldstein, piano
August 10, 2020
Goldstein presents a program tracing the influential legacy of Domenico Scarlatti.
Jory Vinikour, harpsichord
August 3, 2020
The acclaimed, Chicago-area harpsichordist performs Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and the Shanghai Symphony
July 27, 2020
Works by Dvořák, Rachmaninoff, and Qigang Chen in this performance conducted by Long Yu recorded at the Pavilion at Ravinia Festival.
Soprano Angel Blue
July 20, 2020
Ascendent soprano Angel Blue gives a recital of works by Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Rachmaninoff, and more with the accompaniment of pianist Catherine Miller.
Tenor Matthew Polenzani
July 13, 2020
Joined by pianist Kevin Murphy, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, and singers from the Ravinia Stearns Music Institute, this leading operatic tenor — who hails from the Chicago area — gives a performance of works by Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, and Janáček.
Juilliard String Quartet
July 6, 2020
The renowned, longstanding ensemble performed at Ravinia in June 2019, sharing works by Beethoven and Dvořák, as well as a quartet-commissioned piece by Lembit Beecher.
Gautier Capuçon and Jean-Yves Thibaudet [Rebroadcast]
April 13, 2020
This is a rebroadcast from a performance with cellist Gautier Capuçon and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet recorded live from Ravinia’s Martin Theatre. Gautier Capuçon is a true 21st century ambassador for the cello. Performing internationally with many of the world’s foremost conductors and instrumentalists, he is also founder and leader of the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle at the Fondation Louis Vuitton ...
Considering Matthew Shepard
January 6, 2020
Composer-conductor Craig Hella Johnson leads this performance of his 2016 oratorio commemorating LGBTQ hate crime victim Matthew Shepard featuring Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Conspirare.
Alon Goldstein — the Art of Imagination: The Generational Influence of Domenico Scarlatti
September 30, 2019
Earlier this month, pianist Alon Goldstein took the Ravinia Festival stage at Bennett Gordon Hall for a program highlighting the inventiveness and influence of Domenico Scarlatti, drawing a line from the prolific Baroque composer to Beethoven, Schumann, Ginastera, and Bernstein.
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
September 23, 2019
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins conductor Long Yu and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the oldest symphony orchestra in Asia, for a performance of Dvořák’s cello concerto at the pavilion of Ravinia Festival. Also featured in this program are works by Rachmaninoff and Chinese-born composer Qigang Chen. READ MORE: Hear 5 of Alisa Weilerstein’s Favorite New Works for Cello
