Sanders was the last active member of the legendary Frank Miller-helmed CSO cello section.

Honor Black artistry with an entire month of exciting musical events — operas, chamber concerts, jazz orchestras, broadcasts, and more!

A journey from brooding despair to rousing triumph, Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony rescued him from the grips of official Soviet disfavor.

Plus the overture to Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims.

From her debut — at age 12 — with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Hahn has become a shining example of what it means to be a 21st century violinist.

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

Eminent Swedish-American conductor Herbert Blomstedt leads two Dvořák landmarks — the restless, bucolic Eighth Symphony and the impassioned Cello Concerto — each imbued with the composer’s hallmark warmth and Bohemian charm.

Recognizing the Chicagoans, musicians, artists, and friends of WFMT who died this past year.

Holiday music conducted by Sir Georg Solti and Fritz Reiner.

This broadcast celebrates the CSO’s sixth music director, Fritz Reiner!

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.

As we look forward to the festivities, we have compiled some of Chicago’s most enticing holiday offerings!

This commercial broadcast includes the CSO’s historical recordings led by various guest conductors.

Jessie Montgomery, Carlos Simon, and Jasmine Barnes join WFMT to preview the season premiere of CSO MusicNOW.

Dame Jane Glover makes her CSO debut leading Haydn and Mozart.

Hilary Hahn — the CSO’s first artist-in-residence — performs Dvořák’s Violin Concerto.

Peruse the hopefuls for classical, jazz, soundtrack, and more!

Julia Fischer performs Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto.

This broadcast celebrates the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s second music director Frederick Stock!

Vladimir Jurowski conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8.

Hillis was the first woman to regularly conduct a major symphony orchestra, she was the founder of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and served for thirty-seven years as its first director, winning nine Grammy Awards.

We celebrate Sir Georg Solti and Barbara Hendricks’ birthdays in Final Alice by Del Tredici.

“I have so much pouring out of me that I would like to share before I can’t share it anymore. It seems the more years I’ve been given, the more I need.”

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