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New Releases Mar 24: A Focus on Women Composers

Wrapping up women’s history month with a handful of albums that highlight women composers and performers.

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Adela SkowronskiAugust 20, 2025

Cultural Crossovers: Different Musical Traditions Reimagine Classical

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Keegan MorrisAugust 19, 2025

New Releases Aug. 19: Dissident Duos, Dawn, London

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Adela SkowronskiAugust 18, 2025

WFMT Recommends Books for Music Lovers

New Releases Nov. 25: Works to Cherish

Adela SkowronskiNovember 24, 2025

Uncovering some hidden gems of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Welsh composer Grace Williams, and more.

Chicago Holiday Performances Guide 2025: Concerts, Nutcrackers, Jazz, and more

Adela SkowronskiNovember 24, 2025

From all corners of the city and beyond, take part in holiday cheer with music to suit every palate.

Playlists

Playlist: Love Valentine’s Day? This Is the Classical Music for You!

Playlist: WFMT Selects Classical Music to Help You Brave the Winter

The Vienna Philharmonic performing its customary New Year's Day Concert in a dazzlingly adorned concert hall

Playlist: A Toast To Vienna, the City of Classical Music

8 Great Christmas Recordings for 2018

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New Releases Aug. 12: Birds and Waves

Keegan MorrisAugust 12, 2025

Mandolin music of Italy, Iberia, and the Black Sea in Song of the Birds, and orchestral music by women composers in Breaking Waves. And albums focusing on works by Florence Price, Valentin Silvestrov, and Georg Philipp Telemann.

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Grant Park Chorus Director Christopher Bell on the Epic, Sweeping ‘Carmina Burana’

Keegan MorrisAugust 11, 2025

It’s not very hard to sing, but it is hard to sing well. So getting the singers to engage with it can be part of the challenge.

Eddie Palmieri, pioneering Latin jazz musician and Grammy winner, dies at 88

Associated PressAugust 7, 2025

Palmieri was the first Latino to win a Grammy and earned seven more over his career.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff