Two players is all you need to make great chamber music in duos by Zoltán Kodály and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Ahead of his debut as WFMT’s Morning Music host, WFMT spoke with John Clare to welcome him to Chicago airwaves and introduce him to listeners.

The compositions of two historical women composers: Clara Schumann and Ruth Gipps. Plus a survey of 20th century works by violinist Paul Huang, and dazzling male vocal ensemble Cantus.

Plus music by Charles Ives, Anton Webern, and Robert Schumann.

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

Storms capture the human imagination, inspiring awe and fear in equal measure.

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

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.

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

Five CSO music directors—Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodziński, and Sir Georg Solti—lead orchestral excerpts from operas by Beethoven, Copland, Mascagni, Rossini, and Strauss. The program closes with several selections from Wagner’s Ring cycle.

Were these composers doomed or divinely inspired? Decide for yourself!

Béla Bartók is a renowned composer, but let’s cast some light on his career as a pianist, in music he wrote as well as works by Beethoven and Debussy.

Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil lead Strauss’ Don Quixote, an epic tone poem that pits the infamous “Man of La Mancha” against a flurry of windmills and wizards, featuring the LA Phil’s Principal Cello Robert deMaine and Principal Viola Teng Li as soloists. Maria João Pires‘s performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.

A program of Beethoven featuring his works for Strings and Piano.

Effortlessly sailing through its melodic yet meticulous runs, Inon Barnatan demonstrates why No. 25 ranks among Mozart’s top piano concertos.

Schubert’s epic Sixth Symphony is a rollercoaster of somberness, charm, serenity, and humor, with the wind section shining brightest here.

Beethoven’s Opus 132: a string quartet.

Giancarlo Guerrero leads Piazzolla’s Aconcagua Concerto for Bandoneón and Orchestra with Daniel Binelli, followed by Beethoven’s First Symphony. The broadcast closes with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony under the baton of eighth music director Sir Georg Solti.

A 1945 recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, featuring conductor Bruno Walter and soloist Nathan Milstein who performed more than 70 concerts with the Orchestra.

In this broadcast, we hear Pierre Boulez conduct three French works: the score to the ballet La Péri by Paul Dukas, the Symphony No. 3 by Roussel, and the Mother Goose suite by Ravel. We’ll also hear Leonard Bernstein lead a performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto from the keyboard.

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

Feeling down? Beethoven gets it.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is a thriller and a longtime audience favorite.

Be transported to the Viennese countryside as Zubin Mehta and the LA Phil instill vivid and picturesque life into Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony.