From Bolivia to Ghana to India to the US, the perspective-changing experience of travel influenced many of your favorite composers.

Thomas Adès and pianist Kirill Gerstein’s longstanding collaboration has been called “an auspicious meeting of giants.”

Alan Gilbert conducts works by Ravel, Nielsen, and Tchaikovsky.

It’s an evening of tributes, with brilliant composers borrowing tunes by other brilliant composers to cast a spell of musical delights.

Marc-André Hamelin demonstrated his incredible command of the piano in a live performance on WFMT’s airwaves.

Pianist Juho Pohjonen conveys Ravel’s macabre yet gorgeous Gaspard de la Nuit. Plus, the Dover Quartet with special guests Ida Kavafian and Peter Stumpf tackles Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony for Bela Bartók’s zany Second Piano Concerto, in a program also featuring Sergei Prokofiev’s vibrant Romeo and Juliet and Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin.

More reissued highlights from the Eloquence label.

Viet Cuong premieres his work Stargazer featuring Sarah Cahill at the piano.

Take out the high courts and bring in the dancing elephants: here are some of the strangest opera plots that have ever been put to paper.

Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Beethoven, and other high-flying orchestral highlights mark the ESO’s 75th anniversary season.

Pianist Parker Van Ostrand performs works by J.S. Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wang Jianzhong, and Maurice Ravel.

Pipa virtuoso Li Jia’s performs the concerto Little Sisters of the Grassland.

Pianist Yuja Wang joins the Oslo Philharmonic and its Chief Conductor Klaus Mäkelä for a program of 20th-century masterpieces by Ravel and Shostakovich.

The broadcast features works by Wagner, Mahler, Stravinsky, Berg, Debussy and Carter plus some of Mr. Boulez’s own music.

With Sibelius’s music woven through the Hallé’s DNA, expect a stunning performance of The Oceanides, an impressionistic masterpiece that evokes the sea and nymphs of Greek mythology.

Another packed summer of live music awaits.

Robert Langevin is the soloist in the Celtic-influenced Flute Concerto by Christopher Rouse. We’ll also hear works by Copland and Ravel including the Boléro, all conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

David Afkham returns to the CSO podium to lead Debussy, Ravel, and Shostakovich.

Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to the CSO podium for Ravel, Stravinsky, and Dessner.

Duo Sona, made up of harpists Eleanor Kirk and Phoebe Powell, performs music by Antonio Vivaldi, Maurice Ravel, and Mikhail Mchedelov.

An interview with one of the world’s most celebrated classical guitarists on the release of his new album, Baroque.

Whether you’re poring over a biography, traversing a novel, or perhaps writing something yourself, WFMT’s reading playlist is made to help you relax, focus, and get lost in literature.

Pianist Orli Shaham and conductor David Robertson, who are married, take the stage to perform music by Maurice Ravel, Frédéric Chopin, and Olivier Messiaen.

Andris Nelsons leads works by Carlos Simon, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, and Igor Stravinsky