Maria Dueñas shines in Béla Bartók’s darkly beautiful Violin Concerto No. 2 with conductor Elim Chan. The Berlin Radio Symphony rounds out the program with works by Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Daniel Harding conducts Schumann’s Overture to Manfred and Holst’s The Planets, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus joins for Brahms’s Schicksalslied. Plus, former Music Director Sir Georg Solti leads in a 1997 recording of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

Principal Guest Conductor Pierre Boulez leads the CSO in Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Opening the broadcast is Mahler’s Totenfeier. In between, we hear Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta.

A quartet of great composers lead their own music.

Some of today’s most beloved works of classical music weren’t well received when they made their debuts!

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

Music by Anatoly Lyadov, Julia Adolphe, Modest Mussorgsky, and Hector Berlioz.

Music that vanished, whether by accident or by design, only to be brought back into the light years, or centuries, later.

A retrospective on Leonard Bernstein’s revolutionary concert series, which introduced countless listeners to classical music. And Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the influential conductor-composer, reflect on her father’s legacy.

Grammy Award-winning Conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan leads an ensemble of outstanding young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School on this new recording. Since 2002, the Academy and The Juilliard School, both international leaders in their field, have enjoyed collaborations in performances, exchanges and recordings. In this project, Hannigan conducts this transatlantic group in a …

Duo FAE — Charlene Kluegel, violin Katherine Petersen, piano — plays music by Ludwig van Beethoven and Gabriel Fauré.

The four tableaus of Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka are vividly brought to life by Michael Tilson Thomas, who actually met the composer in Los Angeles during his youth.

Plus works by Copland and Stravinsky, all led by ascendant conductor Gemma New.

Including performances conducted by the composer himself.

Most of the music on this program was written by teenagers: Mendelssohn was seventeen years old when he composed his Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rachmaninoff completed his First Piano Concerto and Strauss his First Horn Concerto at age eighteen, and nineteen-year-old Shostakovich submitted his First Symphony as a graduation exercise from the Petrograd Conservatory. The Overture to Rienzi …

Contemplative works by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev.

WFMT is bringing you the fire with a curated playlist of pyrotechnic music.

A motley medley of music inspired by birds of all feathers!

Igor Stravinsky’s explosive ballet score, The Firebird, along with Jean Sibelius’s cosmic Luonnotar with soprano Golda Schultz, and the United States premiere of Daniel Kidane’s SF Symphony commission, Sun Poem.

Music director Jaap van Zweden conducts Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Debussy’s La Mer, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major.

No one was more pivotal in 20th century classical music than Igor Stravinsky. We rank his definitive top 10 works.

The new music director designate is just 28 years old. He’ll be the youngest in orchestra history when he takes the baton.

Music by Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, and George Tsontakis.

Orchestral demand for John Williams’ music has risen so much that his career as a classical musician is almost as fruitful as his film music work.

An Igor Stravinsky undectet (that’s 11 players!) and a César Franck quartet.