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.

From Bolivia to Ghana to India to the US, the perspective-changing experience of travel influenced many of your favorite composers.

A Robert Schumann string quartet, and a Felix Mendelssohn piano sextet.

Most of the music on this program was written by teenagers: Mendelssohn was seventeen years old when he composed his Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rachmaninoff completed his First Piano Concerto and Strauss his First Horn Concerto at age eighteen, and nineteen-year-old Shostakovich submitted his First Symphony as a graduation exercise from the Petrograd Conservatory. The Overture to Rienzi …

Jubilant works by Felix Mendelssohn and Antonín Dvořák.

The renowned Hungarian violinist in music by Bach, Brahms, Schubert, and Mendelssohn.

The sought-after American baritone previews his upcoming performances with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra.

Join Riccardo Muti and the CSO for a sensuous journey to Italy.

Classical concertos are a great entry point for beginners. High-flying, exciting, virtuosic, they are often a pinnacle of solo performance.

Another packed summer of live music awaits.

An early string quintet by Felix Mendelssohn, plus a violin sonata by JS Bach.

Enjoy this festive celebration brimming with beautiful music for the season.

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

Music by Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Schubert.

Closing out the 2023 Grant Park Music Festival season with music by Modest Mussorgsky, Felix Mendelssohn, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Respected pianist Stephen Hough performs Felix Mendelssohn’s 1st Piano Concerto.

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 …

Artists from the Ravinia Steans Music Institute — Ravinia’s training ensemble — join the program’s director, violinist Miriam Fried, to play a medley of quartets.

Whether you are looking to rev up for the race or drown out the din, this playlist of cacophonous classical music is for you.

Two works by Felix Mendelssohn.

We start with a Boccherini quintet before advancing to Mendelssohn’s monumental octet.

Maestro Emanuele Andrizzi leads the Chicago College of Performing Arts Chamber Orchestra in music by Mendelssohn, Poulenc, and Vaughan Williams.

WFMT is honored to present a recital by two extraordinarily virtuosic collaborators who happen to share the same last name. The pair plays music by Gabriel Fauré, Frédéric Chopin, and Felix Mendelssohn.

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.

What music will fill your summer? Grant Park shares its 2023 offerings.