Featuring excerpts from the holiday classic Brandenburg Concertos.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

This music will stay with you—drawing you back to these pieces time and again.

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

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays the Biber Passacaglia, and Zlatomir Fung joins forces with Zoltan Fejervari to play the Sonata in G minor BWV 1029 by Bach. We’ll also hear Ludwig Thuille’s Sextet for Piano and Winds.

Riccardo Muti conducts three of Beethoven’s works, beginning with his Coriolan Overture and followed by his eighth and fifth symphonies. Plus, the CSO Brass performs Barber’s Mutations from Bach, selections from Bach’s The Art of Fugue and Michael Tilson Thomas’s Street Song.

Every library could use more books! Here are our top books about music for the young and the young at heart.

The renowned Hungarian violinist in music by Bach, Brahms, Schubert, and Mendelssohn.

Dame Jane Glover leads Music of the Baroque in the monumental work scored for double chorus, double orchestra, children’s choir and six soloists.

Highlights include rarely-heard gems, beloved holiday concerts, and the 80th birthday celebration of Nicholas Kraemer.

“It’s the right time for Bach Week to bid adieu, and on a high note.”

“It is a very simple dance… but at the same time it has an exceptional soul and one can express emotions in it in an exceptional way.”

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

Much like a gourmet dish, classical music is the result of many individual elements coming together. The composer, like a chef, must know the distinct flavor profiles of each instrument and how they complement each other.

Conductor and harpsichordist Jonathan Cohen on Handel opera and the sacred music of Bach in advance of his debut with Music of the Baroque.

An early string quintet by Felix Mendelssohn, plus a violin sonata by JS Bach.

Enjoy this festive celebration brimming with beautiful music for the season.

The Orion String Quartet and Windscape join forces to perform Bach’s influential Art of the Fugue.