This week, guest conductor Tugan Sokhiev conducts the CSO in Tchaikovsky’s “Winter Dreams” Symphony. Opening the program is Panufnik’s Heroic Overture, followed by Chopin’s first Piano Concerto, featuring Yulianna Avdeeva.

Appointed by Daniel Barenboim in 1994, Ridenour’s final performances with the orchestra will take place this weekend, as the CSO performs Verdi’s Requiem with music director emeritus for life Riccardo Muti.

Christian Thielemann returns to the CSO podium to lead Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony. The broadcast also includes Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde, led by Daniel Barenboim, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s ninth music director from 1991 until 2006.

Barenboim, 82, writes, “I am planning to maintain as many of my professional commitments as my health permits.”

The CSO celebrates the spring in music by Schumann, Goldmark and Mahler. Opening the program, Daniel Barenboim conducts Schumann’s Spring Symphony. Next, Frederick Stock conducts Carl Goldmark’s In Springtime. Rounding out the broadcast is Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde under Fritz Reiner’s baton.

The CSO celebrates Easter Sunday in music by Schumann, Goldmark, and Mahler.

Maestros Barenboim, Boulez, and Solti conduct the CSO with the Chicago Symphony Chorus under the direction of chorus founder Margaret Hillis.

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

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

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

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

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

Vladimir Jurowski conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8.

Daniel Barenboim leads Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C Minor. Haydn’s Symphony No. 95 in C Major opens the program.

The announcement was made on the stage of Orchestra Hall on Friday night after a performance of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis,” the start of Muti’s final subscription weekend as music director.

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider returns to the CSO in Poulenc’s Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings, and
Timpani and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, featuring Cameron Carpenter.

This week, we celebrate Byron Janis’s 95th birthday in Strauss’s Burleske in D Minor from a 1957 RCA recording and some of the guest soloists who have appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra over the years.

Christian Thielemann returns to the CSO podium to conduct Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony.

The season will be the first following the departure of Riccardo Muti as music director. But the maestro will be close at hand as he continues his association with the CSO.

Despite illness, Barenboim is determined to inhabit the conductor’s podium as much as possible.

“I have lived all my life in and through music, and I will continue to do so as long as my health allows me to.”

“I’ve been very lucky. Not only did I get the world’s best job, but I also got to work closely with the world’s best conductors: Barenboim, Muti, Boulez, Haitink, you name it!”

Rafael Payare has been announced as the next music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He will begin his tenure in the 2022-23 season

It wouldn’t be New Year without the Vienna Philharmonic. But as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, what will come of the annual New Year’s Concert?

September is National Piano Month, so WFMT is sharing a supersized playlist – with one selection corresponding to each key on the keyboard.