Allons-y à Paris! Join us on a musical tour of Paris, the City of Light.

This week, Karina Canellakis makes the CSO debut in Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. Opening the program is Augusta Read Thomas’ Brio, followed by Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, featuring Kirill Gerstein.

Guest artists making their festival debuts with the CSO will include pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, musical theater royalty Sutton Foster, violinist Himari, and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

Classical and jazz interpretations, artmaking listening parties, and other innovative programming awaits.

Music of Leopold Godowsky and Nikolai Medtner by the illustrious pianist Marc-André Hamelin.

Music of Leopold Godowsky and Joseph Marx by the illustrious pianist Marc-André Hamelin.

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

The Brazilian pianist — with the backing of the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra — in unreleased music by Brahms, Chopin, Bartók, and Liszt.

Short in length, the newly unearthed waltz bears many of Chopin’s signature characteristics: drama, melancholy, and a penchant for beautiful melodies.

Polish musician and teacher Janusz Olejniczak died of a heart attack at the age of 72 on Sunday, October 20.

Though his life was short, Frédéric Chopin’s prolific output lives on, inspiring listeners and artists like few others.

In Mozart’s time, a divertimento implied a kind of pleasant background music, something to divert one’s attention when you were really doing something else. And yet, Mozart’s monumental Divertimento, K. 563 stands as one of the most profound, substantial pieces of his lifetime. We’ll hear that music performed by Cho-Liang Lin, Yura Lee, and Mark Kosower. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson opens …

“I grew up in a house with art and artists,” Pollini said in an interview. “Old works and modern works coexisted together as part of life.”

“These period pianos, they all have the ability to play as soft as possible and I think still there’s something there, there is still a core inside.”

“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.”

Let’s take a step back in time to hear how classical music influenced some of the 20th century’s hits!

We want to hear your take! Help us create a definitive ranking of the Romantic composer’s greatest music.

The special bond between jazz and classical is growing closer by the day. So let’s appreciate these incredible renditions of timeless classical favorites!

Fast-rising pianist Beatrice Rana is heard in music by Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev.

Pianist Orli Shaham and conductor David Robertson, who are married, take the stage to perform music by Maurice Ravel, Frédéric Chopin, and Olivier Messiaen.

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.

Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet performed music by Brahms, Schubert, Godowsky, Liszt, Chopin, and Moszkowski at the University of Maryland on August 7, 1979.

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 …

The French pianist in music by eminent Romantic composer Frédéric Chopin.