Plus visiting the West Coast by way of Salonen’s L.A. Variations.

Join Riccardo Muti and the CSO for a sensuous journey to Italy.

Another packed summer of live music awaits.

We will hear the CSO’s ninth music director conducting Bruckner, Strauss, and Wagner.

Christian Thielemann leads the Dresden Staatskapelle in an exceptional performance of audience favorites.

Seminal orchestral works by Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart make up this performance led by music director laureate Edo de Waart.

Roderick Cox conducts the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and pianist Inon Barnatan in music by Richard Strauss, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Jean Sibelius.

An interview with the star Norwegian soprano who makes her Lyric Opera debut in Janacek’s Jenůfa this month.

Music by Richard Strauss conducted by the founder and chief conductor of what would become the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra.

The series premiere conducted by Ken-David Masur.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto, and Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen concludes with the waltz-filled Der Rosenkavalier Suite.

Music by Richard Strauss and Anthony Cheung

The beloved American mezzo-soprano shares her passion for French mélodie and reminisces on one of her signature roles—Oktavian in Der Rosenkavalier

The world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic shares a program of Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Strauss.

Whether you are looking to rev up for the race or drown out the din, this playlist of cacophonous classical music is for you.

Conductor Philippe Jordan leads the ensemble in Strauss’s Salome, with Malin Byström in the titular role, alongside Gerhard Siegel (Herod), Wolfgang Koch (John the Baptist) and more.

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More artistic peaks from the great conductor.

This week, we celebrate Byron Janis’s 95th birthday in Strauss’s Burleske in D Minor from a 1957 RCA recording and some of the guest soloists who have appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra over the years.

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads works by Richard Strauss, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Anders Hillborg in a recital featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman.

Concerts featuring Christine Brewer, Brandon Patrick George, and more. But with a music director to be named in the coming months, we will have to wait to see who will conduct them.

Violinist Julian Rhee is not yet 20 years old, but he’s already an in-demand artist, with appearances with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Madison Symphony Orchestra, and the San Diego Symphony under his belt.

Chicago native soprano Ailyn Pérez speaks to us about some of her favorite Latin American and Spanish music and shares a playlist of influential singers and music.

WFMT host Candice Agree has selected some of her favorite works of literature that have inspired musical compositions for you to enjoy on World Book Day.

It’s been a strange, difficult year for the music world, which is all the more reason to celebrate musical excellence.