Stories
The fourth installment in the beloved Beethoven for Three series by Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel Ax, with a glimpse into the rarely heard works of Beethoven’s contemporary Helene Liebmann. Plus, Joyce DiDonato as Dido, early student works by Shostakovich, and a composer who Paul Hindemith described as “the last giant of music.”
March 4, 2025
Album-length explorations of works by Chicago's Shawn E. Okpebholo, pianist-composer Stephen Hough, as well as the 20th-century master William Walton and Romantic era great Robert Schumann.
Adela SkowronskiMarch 3, 2025
Among the composer's lesser known works are pieces inspired by ticking clocks, talking animals, and Madagascar folk songs!
Playlists
Katherine BuzardJuly 12, 2024
Laufey hopes that “an older audience finds a sound in my music that reminds them of when they were younger... and for a younger audience is that it’s introducing something new...”
Louise Kern-KenslerJuly 10, 2024
Marc-André Hamelin demonstrated his incredible command of the piano in a live performance on WFMT's airwaves.
Robbie EllisJuly 3, 2024
WFMT is bringing you the fire with a curated playlist of pyrotechnic music.













