Who is the Most Prolific Composer?

From 3,000 sonatas to over 300 symphonies, here are some of the busiest composers across classical music history!

New Releases Apr. 1: Dynamic Duos

Three unique pairings — guitar/flute, oboe/harpsichord, and clarinet/piano — each with a fascinating repertoire focus. Plus early vocal music, piano concertos, solo piano, and a wide-ranging album for harp.

Szeps-Znaider & Carpenter

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider leads Poulenc’s Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings, and Timpani and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, featuring organ soloist Cameron Carpenter. The broadcast opens with Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and rounds out with Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe and Boléro.

Classical Voyages: Rome

Travel with us to the Eternal City with this wide-ranging playlist of music dedicated to, inspired by, and hailing from Rome.

The impeccable Joélle Harvey

An interview with the soprano in advance of her performances of Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra.

Music of the Baroque ’25-26 ‘Emerald’ Anniversary Season

Celestial Voices, Fathers and Sons, Baroque Blockbusters and other fascinating fare for the ensemble’s 55th season.

Carter Brey Plays Dvořák

New York Philharmonic Principal Cellist Carter Brey performs Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Alan Gilbert conducting.

Glover & Jacobs

Jane Glover makes her CSO subscription debut, leading the orchestra in a program bookended by Haydn’s Symphony No. 71 and Mozart’s Symphony No. 29. Also on the program, Principal Oboe William Welter solos in Mozart’s Oboe Concerto in C Major, and Paul Jacobs performs Handel’s Organ Concerto No. 4 and J.S. Bach’s Sinfonia to Cantata BWV 29. To close, Claudio …

Thomanerchor Leipzig

Meet one of Germany’s most acclaimed choruses in advance of their US Tour.

The Evolution of the Orchestra: A Brief History

The modern orchestra as we know it today only took shape in the last 150 years.

Fazil Say’s Goldberg Variations

Fazil Say interprets Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, one of the essentials of the keyboard repertoire.

An Arkansas organist is playing 18 hours of Bach this year, one lunch break at a time

Bach’s organ works make heavy use of pedals and complex structures. Few organists perform the composer’s complete organ works, given the difficulty and quantity of the music.

Live Results: Grammy Winners 2025

Sunday, February 2, 2025, is the year’s biggest night for music. Peruse the classical, jazz, contemporary, folk, screen, and stage nominees, and see the winners as they’re announced!

Bach in the City: New Chicago Festival Debuts in March

The festival’s premiere concert will be held at Lincoln Park’s historic St. Vincent de Paul Church.

Classical Countdown: New Year’s Eve Music to Strike the Perfect Note at Midnight

Curated celebratory classical music, and the exact second to press play so the music crescendos with the changing of the New Year.

Baroque Mix

Featuring excerpts from the holiday classic Brandenburg Concertos.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Simone Young

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the first Black musician to win the BBC Young Musician Award, is the soloist in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

Chicago Holiday Performances Guide 2024: Concerts, Nutcrackers, Jazz, and more

From all corners of the city and beyond, take part in holiday cheer with a wide range of merriment.

Grammy Nominees 2025

Dive in to the classical, jazz, contemporary, folk, screen, and stage nominees!

String Abundance

A duo of unconventional works fill this program featuring an abundance of string instruments.

Nelson Freire: The Unreleased Recordings 1970-2019, Program 1

The Brazilian pianist in unreleased music by Beethoven, Bach, Liszt, Strauss, Debussy, Gluck, and Villa-Lobos.

Introducing Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen

An interview with the American countertenor in advance of his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Apollo’s Fire Returns to Chicago for 2024–25 Season

For the last four seasons, the Second City has been the Cleveland-founded Baroque ensemble’s second home.

Rieko Tsuchida, piano

Pianist Rieko Tsuchida performs works by J.S. Bach, Maurice Ravel, Sato Matsui, and Isaac Albéniz live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

Profile: Jaap Schröder

We celebrate violinist Jaap Schröder, one of the first pioneers to present performances of baroque, and later, classical works, on period instruments.

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