Muti Conducts

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.

Schubert

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 …

Lost and Found: 8 Classical Music Masterworks Rescued From History

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

Nine Legendary Ninths: Superstitions & Symphonies

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

Playlist: Art Songs for Autumn

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

Schubert and Beethoven

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

Julian Prégardien, a German Orpheus

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

10 Classical Earworms: The Mastery Behind Unforgettable Music

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

Jonathan Biss

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.

Schubert’s Vocal Chamber Music

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

Alan Gilbert Conducts Mahler’s 6th Symphony

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

With Summer Near, 25th Annual Rush Hour Concerts Announced

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

The Art of Johanna Martzy

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

The Art of the String Quartet

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

Playlist: Classical Music for Cooking

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.

Alan Gilbert Conducts Symphonies by Haydn and Prokofiev

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.

19th Century Lyricism

Music by Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Schubert.

Greatness of Schubert

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

Schubert and Beethoven

Performances featuring Benjamin Beilman, Gloria Chien, Gary Hoffmann, and more.

Schubert and Beethoven

Performances featuring pianist Emanuel Ax and the Belcea Quartet.

A Tribute to Miriam Fried

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.

Yashima Conducts Schubert 5

Erina Yashima also leads works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Franz Schubert, and Jessie Montgomery.

A complete Jorge Bolet recital

Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet performed music by Brahms, Schubert, Godowsky, Liszt, Chopin, and Moszkowski at the University of Maryland on August 7, 1979.

Barenboim Conducts Schoenberg & Schubert

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.

Little Traveling Music, Please

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 …

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