"The Barber of Seville" | Gioachino Rossini | Dmitri Hvorostovsky, br; Philharmonia Orch/Ion Marin | Songs Of Love And Desire
"The Barber of Seville" | Gioachino Rossini | Dmitri Hvorostovsky, br; Philharmonia Orch/Ion Marin | Songs Of Love And Desire
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One of the most celebrated American string quartets shares an exclusive performance from Barrington’s White House.
Two highlights from the influential — but tragically short — life and career of Franz Schubert.
Performances featuring Benjamin Beilman, Gloria Chien, Gary Hoffmann, and more.
Performances featuring pianist Emanuel Ax and the Belcea Quartet.
Ravinia Steans Music Institute alumni Ariel Quartet, violinist Ayano Ninomiya, cellist Karen Ouzounian, and pianist Henry Kramer pay tribute to the retiring director of the RSMI program for piano & strings.
Erina Yashima also leads works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Franz Schubert, and Jessie Montgomery.
Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet performed music by Brahms, Schubert, Godowsky, Liszt, Chopin, and Moszkowski at the University of Maryland on August 7, 1979.
Daniel Barenboim leads Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C Minor. Haydn’s Symphony No. 95 in C Major opens the program.
Wanderers, farewells, and sightseeing; people are always on the go. This week, Bill calls up, “A Little Traveling Music, Please” from the pens of Handel, Smetana, Duke Ellington, and more. Reflections from such travels infuse themselves into their works, as we will discover throughout the week. We will hear selections from Beethoven’s Les Adieux, Schubert’s Die Schöne Mullerin, and Haydn’s …
“Throughout the work you can feel the desperate search for relief and happiness … but, for me, there’s always the sense that it is on the verge of collapse.”
Need some music for a day at the beach? These classical plays are the perfect soundtrack as you’re catching rays.
Season Premiere: Illinois State University piano professor Geoffrey Duce explores the musical genealogy of works by Wilhelm Friedmann Bach, Car Phillip Emanuel Bach, John McCabe, Franz Schubert, and Ernst von Dohnányi.
Cyril Smith, a leading pianist of the early 20th century, plays selections by Balakirev, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, and Dohnányi.
Music director Franz Welser-Möst leads a bold juxtaposition between the first and second Viennese schools in selections by Alban Berg and Franz Schubert.
Music by two eminent composers of Vienna: Franz Schubert and Alexander von Zemlinsky.
When the Orion Ensemble returns to the Levin Studio for this edition of Live From WFMT, they will collaborate with friends in a performance of one of the pinnacles of the chamber repertoire: Schubert’s great Octet in F major.
More artistic peaks from the great conductor.
Season Premiere: Benjamin Hochman plays a hidden gem of the English Baroque repertoire, then we hear a String Quintet by Franz Schubert.
Music director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the SF Symphony and guest artist Pekka Kuusisto, violin in music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Bryce Dessner, and Franz Schubert.
All Souls Day (November 2) is a day of prayer and remembrance for departed loved ones observed in many branches of Christianity.
Some of the most intriguing, spine-curdling, and spirited musical events all around the Chicago area.
Get a new view of summertime in Chicago… complete with some great classical music!
A rich blend of music for calm, conversation, and of course, caffeine.
Violinist Igor Pikayzen and pianist Tatyana Pikayzen perform two expressive, engaging fantasies.
Hearing music by Schubert and Mendelssohn, WFMT audiences enjoyed some rarified music-making by the Risus Quartet, the Grand Prize winner of the prestigious 2021 Fishoff Competition.