We celebrate Riccardo Muti’s 13th and culminating season as the CSO’s tenth music director.

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

Music of Ibert, Chaminade, Telemann, Enescu, and Prokofiev; before collaborating with 18-year-old singer Sophia Katsma on two Japanese songs.

Violinist Sirena Huang and Pianist Chih-Yi Chen plays music by Eddie South, Sergei Prokofiev, and Henri Vieuxtemps.

Pianist Crystal Zheyu Jiang plays music by Chopin and Prokofiev live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

The Great Chicago Fire began on October 8, 1871. Here’s some music that takes inspiration from flames.

In an array of stimulating and soothing music, give your walk a melodic backdrop or clear your mind for some deep thinking.

The CSO announces an array of concerts from September to January.

WFMT host Candice Agree has selected some of her favorite works of literature that have inspired musical compositions for you to enjoy on World Book Day.

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

Though Northwestern’s band program dates back to 1911, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble began in 1969.

The eighty-fifth annual season opens June 12 and will run through August 17, with most performances taking place at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.

The history of music is full of friendships and feuds. These composers certainly had complicated relationships. What are your favorite composer clashes?

While we all love the classics like the “Autumn” concerto from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” here are some works that are a little less… common to cozy up with this fall.

The summer festival’s 2018 season of concerts runs for 10 weeks from June 13 to August 18.

The opera house can be a scary place – and we’re not talking about all those crazy singers and their shenanigans backstage! Many operas contain ghastly ghouls, ghosts, goblins, witches, dragons, and all kinds of crazy creatures. Here are some of the most frightening pieces from the history of opera.

Though we tend to remember our favorite composers for their music first and foremost, many of them were virtuosic in more ways than one.

Though the music of your favorite composers might make you smile, chances are, the composers themselves aren’t smiling in their portraits. Until now…

“The last time we did this production, you could hear that people were really upset by it. And yet, there is absolutely beautiful choreography — it’s absolutely stunning.”

Need some music to help you warm up this fall? We’ve got the perfect soundtrack.

We asked you to vote on your favorite piano concertos, which we have been counting down for two weeks along with works that might be new to you. Here are your top 10 favorite piano concertos revealed!