Three unique pairings — guitar/flute, oboe/harpsichord, and clarinet/piano — each with a fascinating repertoire focus. Plus early vocal music, piano concertos, solo piano, and a wide-ranging album for harp.

From concert hall classics to obscure showpieces.

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

Plus music by Charles Ives, Anton Webern, and Robert Schumann.

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

Daniel Harding conducts Schumann’s Overture to Manfred and Holst’s The Planets, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus joins for Brahms’s Schicksalslied. Plus, former Music Director Sir Georg Solti leads in a 1997 recording of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

This week, musicians from the Orchestra – including Dale Clevenger, Adolph Herseth, Arnold Jacobs, Donald Peck, and Ray Still – step into the soloist spotlight.

Equally satisfying as the main course, these shorter works can round out your musical diet with different textures, flavors, and colors.

The distinguished German baritone previews his upcoming recital at Ravinia Festival.

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

Marc-André Hamelin demonstrated his incredible command of the piano in a live performance on WFMT’s airwaves.

The trio Sonata in G Major by Handel, and a pair of songs from a vocal recital by Jennifer Johnson Cano with Christopher Cano at the piano. Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat Major Op. 47 rounds out this program.

The CSO celebrates Easter Sunday in music by Schumann, Goldmark, and Mahler.

Plus music by Charles Ives, Anton Webern, and Robert Schumann.

Experience the ferocity of “Mars,” the golden song of “Jupiter,” the eerie calm of “Saturn” and the haunting off-stage vocals of the ethereal “Neptune.”

An interview with the prodigious French pianist in advance of her recital at Symphony Center.

Another packed summer of live music awaits.

Julia Fischer performs Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto.

In an ode to the wonder of our natural world, this program ponders fate, resolve, and reverence.

A conversation with the distinctive American pianist.

We all came to love classical music in different ways. Here are some of the musical first loves of our WFMT listeners, in their own words.

Sunwook Kim is the soloist in Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Conductor Tianyi Lu rounds out the program with works by Anna Clyne and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Norwegian pianist Sigurd Slåttebrekk performs music by Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann, and Maurice Ravel.

This week, we hear the Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 by Robert Schumann and J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.

Kicking off the 2023 Grant Park Music Festival season with music by Schumann, Muczynski, and Saint-Saëns.