From the serene to the upbeat, this stockingful of 2025 Christmas albums will fill your festivities with joy and wonder.

The Christmas season was an extremely busy time for church composers in the eighteenth century: congregations expected newly written music every year. A tradition emerged in the early seventeenth century of composing music with the aim of recreating the pastoral atmosphere of the first Christmas Eve. On this special Advent edition of Baroque&Before, Concerto Copenhagen starts off our program with …

Bertrand Chamayou & Leif Ove Andsnes pay respects to Franz Schubert; brand new brass works highlight the instrument family.

A monumental box set marking the 400th anniversary of Louis Couperin and a set of new holiday albums.

Uncovering some hidden gems of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Welsh composer Grace Williams, and more.

Grab your calendars and make your plans to enjoy the season.

Works by composers for the people and places that shaped them – music filled with warmth, reflection, and appreciation.

Uncovering some hidden gems of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Welsh composer Grace Williams, and more.

The winter holidays are right around the corner, and WFMT has a feast of musical offerings to make the season bright!

Configurations that shine a spotlight on the human voice: from Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”, to new arragements of spirituals.

Celebrate with marches written by Sousa… and other American composers!

Curated celebratory classical music, and the exact second to press play so the music crescendos with the changing of the New Year.

Music from the 1800s to today to honor each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

Artistic director and founder Patrick Dupré Quigley shares his favorite music for the season.

From the serene to the upbeat, this stockingful of 2024 Christmas albums will fill your festivities with joy and wonder.

The winter holidays are right around the corner, and WFMT has a feast of musical offerings to make the season bright!

WFMT is bringing you the fire with a curated playlist of pyrotechnic music.

Discover new music including Reena Esmail’s A Winter Breviary and Roderick Williams’s O Adonai.

From totally fresh arrangements of old tunes to new winter works altogether.

Stunning renditions of contemporary works, stirring early music performances, and more.

It’s hard to pinpoint a single genre for which music is more indispensable than horror. Here are 13 horror movie soundtracks to give you thrills and chills.

Lunar New Year festivities are a great time to celebrate Chicago’s Chinese and Chinese American communities.

With Hanukkah right around the corner, it is a perfect time to plan your celebration. Include this music in your festivities.

Christmas is the most musical time of the year, and each December, we look forward to sharing a new assortment of festive holiday albums.

As we prepare to gather around the table for the Thanksgiving feast, put on this playlist of some of the most inspired musical celebrations of food and drink.