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4 days ago | wfmt.com | Adela Skowronski

This week, Julian Rachlin showcases his singular versatility as a violinist, violist and conductor. He joins Associate Concertmaster Stephanie Jeong in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante before leading a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Meditation” from Souvenir d’un lieu cher. Taking the podium, Rachlin bookends the program by conducting works by Mozart and Beethoven.

1 week ago | wfmt.com | Adela Skowronski

Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello in a Saturday matinee broadcast on February 9, 1974 (Photo: Metropolitan Opera Archives)This week, we take a look back at Grammy-winning performances by the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Music directors Daniel Barenboim and Sir Georg Solti conduct Bruckner’s Psalm 150 and Brahms’s A German Requiem. Former principal guest conductor Pierre Boulez conducts Bartók’s Cantata profana.

3 weeks ago | wfmt.com | Adela Skowronski

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider leads Poulenc’s Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings, and Timpani and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, featuring organ soloist Cameron Carpenter. The broadcast opens with Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and rounds out with Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe and Boléro.

1 month ago | wfmt.com | Adela Skowronski

The CSO celebrates Pierre Boulez’s 100th birthday! In this broadcast, we hear Pierre Boulez, the CSO’s Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus, conducting the CSO in Stravinsky, Scriabin, Varèse, Schoenberg and Bartók. In between, the CSO’s Ninth Music Director Daniel Barenboim conducts Boulez’ Notations VII.

1 month ago | wfmt.com | Candice Agree

In the late 1730s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed four short masses in Latin in part, by selecting portions from his earlier works and putting them together in new and ingenious ways, resulting in musically rich mass settings. On this edition of Baroque&Before, Fredrik Malmberg leads the Swedish Radio Choir and Capella Suecia in one of these short masses, BWV 236 in G Major. The beloved cantata “Sleepers Awake” opens the concert.