A program of song to mark the composer’s birthday.

This week, Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti leads concertos by Telemann and Michael Haydn—featuring Principal Trumpet Esteban Batallán in his CSO solo debut—along with Schubert’s Fourth Symphony. The program also includes historic RCA recordings of Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé Suite and R. Strauss’s Der Bürger als Edelmann under the baton of sixth music director Fritz Reiner.

From 3,000 sonatas to over 300 symphonies, here are some of the busiest composers across classical music history!

Franz Schubert packed an unbelievable amount of composing into his 31 years.

An interview with the soprano in advance of her performances of Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra.

Any chamber music demands a deceptive level of coordination and mastery. But what about when two artists are playing the same instrument, side-by-side?

Music by Alban Berg and Franz Schubert conducted by Cleveland’s music director.

Haydn’s glorious Te Deum opens the program, with Richard Strauss’s Aus Italien concluding. The program’s centerpiece, Franz Schubert’s Second Mass, features vocalists Siobhan Stagg, Julian Prégardien, and Vito Priante.

The great Italian legend of the piano Maurizio Pollini passed away on March 23, 2024. This album, recorded together with his son Daniele, showcases three different aspects of Franz Schubert’s mastery of the piano: the sonatas, the collections of short pieces, and music for four hands. Schubert’s great F minor Fantasia was the first piano four hands work father and …

Music that vanished, whether by accident or by design, only to be brought back into the light years, or centuries, later.

Were these composers doomed or divinely inspired? Decide for yourself!

An autumnal assortment of songs in German, French, English, and even Swedish, each with their own take on the fall season.

Schubert’s epic Sixth Symphony is a rollercoaster of somberness, charm, serenity, and humor, with the wind section shining brightest here.

An interview with the German tenor – an Early Music and lieder specialist.

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

In addition to being a teacher, writer, and the co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music Festival, Jonathan Biss is also a touring concert pianist. He stopped by Ravinia earlier this summer to perform works by Franz Schubert and Tyshawn Sorey. This performance was recorded at Ravinia on June 20th, 2024.

Soprano Joélle Harvey and baritone Nikolay Borchev are featured in a survey of Franz Schubert’s vocal output.

The symphony contains a soaring theme dedicated to Alma Mahler in the first movement and ends with tragic hammer blows.

The series presents savvy commuters with free, approachable concerts at River North’s Saint James Cathedral.

The renowned Hungarian violinist in music by Bach, Brahms, Schubert, and Mendelssohn.

The Calidore String Quartet presents century-spanning chamber works for four by Franz Schubert, Anton Webern, Anna Clyne, and Leoš Janáček.

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.

This broadcast features symphonies by Haydn and Prokofiev, plus a selection of songs by Franz Schubert orchestrated by various composers and the Fantasy-Overture, Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky. The orchestra is joined by mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter for the Schubert.

Music by Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Schubert.

Two highlights from the influential — but tragically short — life and career of Franz Schubert.