Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto

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

In Switzerland with Mäkelä and Andsnes

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

Harding Conducts The Planets

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.

Musicians of the Orchestra

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

8 Musical Side Dishes

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

Matthias Goerne on songs of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms

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

Genius Peers: Schumann and Mendelssohn

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

Virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin’s Mastery on Display on Live From WFMT (Video)

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

Schumann & Handel

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 Song of the Earth

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

Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto

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

Harding Conducts The Planets

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.”

Music and Conversation with Hélène Grimaud

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

90 Years: Grant Park Music Festival Announces 2024 Season

Another packed summer of live music awaits.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Muti & Fischer

Julia Fischer performs Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto.

Every Tree Speaks: Habbi, Brahms, & Schumann

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

Music and Conversation with Simone Dinnerstein

A conversation with the distinctive American pianist.

Playlist: WFMT Listeners’ First Favorites

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.

Tianyi Lu & Sunwook Kim

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

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

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

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.

Season Premiere: Schumann Symphony No. 4

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

Chelsea Guo, soprano and piano

Soprano and Pianist Chelsea Guo performs music by Clara and Robert Schumann, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

Demarre McGill

Chicago-born flutist Demarre McGill joins music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony to perform Notturno by the orchestra’s former music director, Michael Tilson Thomas.

Highlights of Warner Classics Compilation of Furtwängler Recordings

The great conductor leading works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler, and Johann Strauss II.