Candice Agree

01/10/2025

Creating a musical exploration of the complex intertwinings – the sacred bridges – between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

24/09/2025

Passionate about Hebraic spiritual traditions, Benedetto Marcello was inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-century Venice. Selections from Marcello’s settings of poetic paraphrases of the Psalms of David with Hebraic intonations are presented by Ensemb...

18/09/2025

Ramon Llull (1232-1316) was one of the most prominent writers and poets of medieval Catalonia, living at a time marked by the coexistence, not always peacefully, of the three Abrahamic religious cultures of his time. Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI, and special guest...

15/09/2025

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Conductor James Gaffigan takes the podium to lead the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in works by William Grant Still, Antonín Dvořák, and George Gershwin. Later, Bernstein’s Serenade, after Plato’s ‘Symposium’ features violinist Janine Janson for the opening violin solo.

11/09/2025

Known as the “Spanish Palestrina,” Tomás Luis de Victoria has been called the greatest of all Iberian composers.

03/09/2025

We celebrate violinist Jaap Schröder, one of the first pioneers to present performances of baroque, and later, classical works, on period instruments.

28/08/2025

Peace, love, hope, salvation. Soprano Hana Blažíková joins Capella de la Torre for a program of early seventeenth-century Germany and Italy celebrating an age of miracles. Recorded live in concert July 24, 2024 in the Church of St Simon and St Jude as part of Prague’s Summer Festivities of Earl...

20/08/2025

It’s Early Music Night in America!

Inspired by Hans Memling’s altarpiece for a Spanish nunnery, and using instruments built especially for this project, historical brass ensemble Oltremontano Antwerp and the female vocal ensemble Tiburtina join forces for a program focused on fifteenth-century monophonic chant and polyphonic pieces...

19/08/2025

Join me tonight, 10CT, as WFMT’s Orchestra series continues. Sakari Oramo conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in a live concert recording, with Leif Ove Andsnes as soloist in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto.

Conductor Sakari Oramo welcomes Leif Ove Andsnes for Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, before leading works by Bacewicz and Debussy.

19/08/2025

Nothing gets you more excited about reading than a truly great book, so we asked our staff members what musical books they have recently loved!

06/08/2025

More than 150 composers have incorporated the La Follia theme into their own works. On this edition of Baroque&Before, Soprano Núria Rial joins Ensemble 1700, under the direction of recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger, to bring us a program of 16th to 18th-century German, Italian, and French compos...