WFMT’s series of concerts from Ravinia Festival returns on Sunday, August 31 at 3:00 pm for a 10-week lineup of wonderful chamber recitals.

The broadcast season finale from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival begins with baritone Benjamin Appl singing ‘Silent Love’ from Wolf’s Eichendorff Lieder. John Storgårds and Kirill Gerstein perform Janáček’s Sonata for Violin and Piano. Then, pianist Jon Kimura Parker, violinist Yura Lee, and cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan round off the program with the D minor Piano Trio by Mendelssohn.

Guest artists include cellist Oliver Herbert, violinist Geneva Lewis, and pianist Orion Weiss.

Along with his siblings, Felix Mendelssohn began music instruction early in his life, performed his first concert at just nine years old, and composed his first symphony at fifteen.

The modern orchestra as we know it today only took shape in the last 150 years.

Any chamber music demands a deceptive level of coordination and mastery. But what about when two artists are playing the same instrument, side-by-side?

Two works — by Respighi and Mendelssohn — conveying keen, raw emotion.

Marking the free classical music festival’s first season led by Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero.

Love is in the air in this all-orchestral program from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Elim Chan.

Music by Felix Mendelssohn, Edvard Grieg, and Robert Schumann.

Music that vanished, whether by accident or by design, only to be brought back into the light years, or centuries, later.

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.