The winter holidays are right around the corner, and WFMT has a feast of musical offerings to make the season bright!

This week, guest conductor Tugan Sokhiev leads Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony, Winter Dreams. The program opens with Panufnik’s Heroic Overture, followed by Chopin’s First Piano Concerto in E Minor, featuring Yulianna Avdeeva.

Jaap van Zweden leads a mixed-repertoire program that spotlights the Philharmonic’s long-serving principal violist Cynthia Phelps.

Giancarlo Guerrero leads Piazzolla’s Aconcagua Concerto for Bandoneón and Orchestra with Daniel Binelli, followed by Beethoven’s First Symphony. The broadcast closes with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony under the baton of eighth music director Sir Georg Solti.

This opera navigates the dark and obsessive tale of Hermann, performed by Brandon Jovanovich in a story of desire, gambling, and the supernatural.

The four tableaus of Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka are vividly brought to life by Michael Tilson Thomas, who actually met the composer in Los Angeles during his youth.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a master of melody. Across musical forms the Russian composer’s works exquisitely harness the power of each instrument involved.

Alan Gilbert conducts works by Ravel, Nielsen, and Tchaikovsky.

Contemplative works by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev.

WFMT is bringing you the fire with a curated playlist of pyrotechnic music.

Part one of an exploration of a fruitful collaboration highlights works by Glière, Dukas, Tchaikovsky, Walton, Mahler, and Milhaud.

Across four programs, performers including violinist Paul Huang, pianist Alessio Bax, and the festival’s co-founders explore a range of chamber music rep.

Elim Chan’s San Francisco Symphony debut.

Anna Rakitina makes her debut with the CSO leading an all-Tchaikovsky program. Included in the program is the Russian Romantic master’s Capriccio Italien, Variations on a Rococo Theme, Pezzo capriccioso, plus Suite from The Nutcracker.

A motley medley of music inspired by birds of all feathers!

Every library could use more books! Here are our top books about music for the young and the young at heart.

Yefim Bronfman is the soloist in Prokofiev’s fiendishly difficult Piano Concerto No. 2. We also present Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 from that same concert and the broadcast opens with Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from the opera Eugene Onegin.

Rounding out California Symphony’s suite of concerts with works by Viet Cuong, Edward Elgar, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Kodály’s Dances of Galánta begins the concert, contrasted with Anna Clyne’s DANCE for Cello and Orchestra, featuring cellist Inbal Segev as soloist.

Help WFMT create a definitive ranking of the music of masterful Romantic composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Take out the high courts and bring in the dancing elephants: here are some of the strangest opera plots that have ever been put to paper.

Four contemporary operas have their Met premieres.

Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Beethoven, and other high-flying orchestral highlights mark the ESO’s 75th anniversary season.

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.

The special bond between jazz and classical is growing closer by the day. So let’s appreciate these incredible renditions of timeless classical favorites!