In the opening concert of the 2021-22 Season, Daniil Trifonov was soloist in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto.

Alan Gilbert leads a program featuring violin concertos by Vivaldi and Berg as well as the Symphony No. 8 by Beethoven and the Symphony No. 4 by Brahms.

Tension, energy, and triumph abound in Beethoven’s history-changing Eroica Symphony. In contrast, Sebastian Currier’s delicate and mesmerizing Aether evokes “the air the gods breathe.”

Anthony Parnther leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto, and works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and Valerie Coleman.

Herbert Blomstedt returns to lead Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica, is paired with the Symphony No. 2 by Anton Bruckner.

Music Director Jaap van Zweden is joined by Yefim Bronfman in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2. This will be followed by the Symphony No. 2 by Rachmaninoff.

The program begins with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont and Fourth Symphony, followed by Still’s Mother and Child and Price’s Third Symphony.

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

Experience the exhilaration of Beethoven’s dance Symphony, his Seventh, and a new cello concerto by Gabriella Smith.

Performances featuring Benjamin Beilman, Gloria Chien, Gary Hoffmann, and more.

Joshua Bell joins the New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden in a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.

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

Performances featuring pianist Emanuel Ax and the Belcea Quartet.

Jiao Sun, a US-based pianist originally from Harbin, China, visited Chicago for a captivating recital.

We all came to love classical music in different ways. Here are some of the musical first loves of our WFMT listeners, in their own words.

Exploring the relationship between Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Musicians from rap to alternative to K-Pop and beyond look to classical music for inspiration! Here are just a few creative examples.

We explore two symphonies prominent in the Orchestra’s history — Beethoven’s Fifth and Dvořák’s Ninth — through the interpretive lenses of six former Music Directors

The Calidore String Quartet explores different phases of Beethoven’s string quartet output.

Wanderers, farewells, and sightseeing; people are always on the go. This week, Bill calls up, “A Little Traveling Music, Please” from the pens of Handel, Smetana, Duke Ellington, and more. Reflections from such travels infuse themselves into their works, as we will discover throughout the week. We will hear selections from Beethoven’s Les Adieux, Schubert’s Die Schöne Mullerin, and Haydn’s …

Giancarlo Guerrero leads Piazzolla’s Aconcagua Concerto for Bandoneón and Orchestra with Daniel Binelli followed by Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1.

Gilbert is joined by an all-star quartet of soloists and the New York Choral Artists in a 2010 performance.

Bernard Haitink leads Beethoven’s Seventh and Brahms’ Second symphonies, plus Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz and Webern’s Passacaglia for Orchestra.

Between the Third and Fifth Concertos, Bronfman will be joined by then-concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and Principal Cello Carter Brey for Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.