On our next musical hour, flautist Tara Helen O’Connor and pianist Ran Dank deliver a virtuosic interpretation of the Flute Sonata by Prokofiev. Then later, the Dover Quartet plays Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet in D Major, whose famous second movement was said to have moved the novelist Leo Tolstoy to tears.

The shark does not appear until the 81-minute mark of the 124-minute film. But its presence is felt through Williams’ theme, which some music scholars have theorized evoke the shark’s heartbeat.

As part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mahler Festival 2025 celebrations, tune in to a special radio broadcast featuring the CSO’s First Principal Guest Conductor Carlo Maria Giulini leading Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 9.

Travel across the world in the space of an hour on this program, with music by Jean Françaix, Paul Schoenfield, and Sergei Prokofiev.

From concert hall classics to obscure showpieces.

Trifonov’s not-to-be-missed performance of Brahms’s well-loved concerto is paired with a late symphony by Prokofiev, filled with powerful atmospheric writing and dark, thrilling melodic lines.

Cleveland-born cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins music director Franz Welser-Möst to perform Barber’s “lyric and romantic” Cello Concerto, a piece praised for its “Brahms-like grandeur.” Written while Barber was serving in the U.S. military during World War II, the concerto is bookended by the world premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull’s Can You See? and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 4 (revised 1947 version), a …

A selection of winter-themed highlights from the New York Philharmonic’s storied discography.

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

The Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko take the Waldbühne stage in a program pairing Maurice Ravel with music by Modest Mussorgsky and Sergei Prokofiev and featuring pianist Yuja Wang.

This music will stay with you—drawing you back to these pieces time and again.

For more than a century, artists from all over the world have chosen to give their first performances in the Second City.

Violist Isabella Biscagna and pianist Nadia Azzi perform works by Clarice Assad, Sergei Prokofiev, and Caroline Shaw.

Contemplative works by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev.

Lahav Shani makes his CSO debut in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. Included in the program is Prokofiev’s Symphony No.1 and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini featuring Beatrice Rana.

Elim Chan’s San Francisco Symphony debut.

Xian Zhang leads the CSO in Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony and Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Primal Message. In between, Simon Trpčeski joins her in Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Opening the program, Sir Georg Solti leads the CSO in Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a from 1997 London recording.

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Yefim Bronfman is the soloist in Prokofiev’s fiendishly difficult Piano Concerto No. 2. We also present Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 from that same concert and the broadcast opens with Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from the opera Eugene Onegin.

The new music director designate is just 28 years old. He’ll be the youngest in orchestra history when he takes the baton.

Take out the high courts and bring in the dancing elephants: here are some of the strangest opera plots that have ever been put to paper.

Much like a gourmet dish, classical music is the result of many individual elements coming together. The composer, like a chef, must know the distinct flavor profiles of each instrument and how they complement each other.

Plus the overture to Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims.

Radovic, a student at Midwest Young Artists Conservatory, plays both violin and viola in this recital.

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