CSOradio broadcast schedule

The CSOradio broadcast series brings unparalleled live performances to thousands of listeners every week.

The series features live concert performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, recorded in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, alongside selections from the CSO’s expansive catalog of commercial recordings. Every program is designed to illustrate fascinating stories behind the music, as well as presenting insights from the performers themselves.

CSOradio currently offers one series: a nationally syndicated lineup, which is broadcast in Chicago at 8 p.m. CT on Sundays over WFMT-FM (98.7). Complete shows also may be heard here.

Audiences outside Chicago may stream the CSO’s radio broadcasts on Experience CSO or check their local radio listings.

Stream available music selections on CSOradio.

CSOradio Listings, September 29, 2024 to December 22, 2024
Sep 29, 2024
CSOradio Program #40
Solti Conducts Del Tredici

Hector Berlioz Overture to Les Francs-juges, Op. 3
1974 (London) 
Ernst von Dohnányi Variations on a Nursery Song, Op. 25
1985 (London)
Carl Maria von Weber Overture to Oberon
1973 (London)
David Del Tredici Final Alice 
1981
(London)
Sir Georg Solti conductor 

Oct 06, 2024
CSOradio Program #41
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis

John Adams The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)
Dmitri Shostakovich Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1
Duke Ellington Big Fat Alice's Blues 
Duke Ellington Amad
Duke Ellington The Mooch
Sergei Prokofiev Selections from Romeo and Juliet
Wynton Marsalis All American Pep from Swing Symphony
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Wynton Marsalis trumpet
Giancarlo Guerrero conductor
April 2024

Oct 13, 2024
CSOradio Program #42
Afkham & Gluzman

Maurice Ravel Menuet antique
Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77 
ENCORE Valentin Silvestrov Serenade
Vadim Gluzman violin
Claude Debussy La mer
Maurice Ravel La valse
David Afkham conductor
May 2023

Anton Webern Im Sommerwind
Bernard Heitink conductor 
2009
(CSO Resound)

Oct 20, 2024
CSOradio Program #43
Opera Without Words

Mikhail Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Franz Reiner conductor
1959 
(RCA)

Ludwig van Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1972 (London)

Richard Strauss Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier
Fritz Reiner conductor
April 1957
(RCA)

Aaron Copland Suite from The Tender Land
Fritz Reiner conductor 
April 1958 (CSO: The First 100 Years

Pietro Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalliera rusticana
Riccardo Muti conductor
June 2017 (CSO Resound)

Gioachino Rossini Overture to William Tell 
Fritz Reiner conductor
November 1958 (RCA)

Richard Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkyüre
Artur Rodzinski conductor
April 1948 (CSO: The First 100 Years)

Richard Wagner Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
Daniel Barenboim conductor
October 1991 (Erato)

Richard Wagner Dawn, Siegfried's Rhine Journey, and Siegfried's Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Daniel Barenboim conductor
October 1991
(Erato)

Oct 27, 2024
CSOradio Program #44
Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9

Caroline Shaw Boris Kerner
Adolphus Hailstork Arabesques
Emma Gerstein flute
Kenneth Olsen cello

Mahler Symphony No. 9
Jakum Hrůša conductor
June 2023

Nov 03, 2024
CSOradio Program #45
Muti, Herbert & Pines of Rome

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in F Major, K. 138
William Kraft Timpani Concerto No. 1 
David Herbert timpani
Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1
Ottorino Respighi Pines of Rome
Riccardo Muti conductor
May 2023

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quartet for Flute and Strings in D Major, K. 285
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson flute
Robert Chen violin
Li-Kuo Chang viola
John Sharp cello

Alberto Ginastera String Quartet No. 1, Op. 20
Stephanie Jeong violin
Simon Michal violin
Weijing Wang viola
Kenneth Olsen cello

Nov 10, 2024
CSOradio Program #46
Muti Conducts Beethoven 

Ludwig van Beethoven Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Riccardo Muti conductor 
January 2022

Samuel Barber Mutations from Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Ralph Sauer): Selections from Bach's The Art of the Fugue
Michael Tilson Thomas: Street Song for Symphonic Brass
Michael Mulcahy conductor 
May 2021

Nov 17, 2024
CSOradio Program #47
Sokhiev & Avdeeva

Andrzej Panufnik Heroic Overture
Frédèric Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11
Yulianna Avdeeva piano 
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13 (Winter Dreams)
Tugan Sokhiev conductor
April 2024

Richard Wagner Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1994 
(Teldec)

Nov 24, 2024
CSOradio Program #48
Boulez Conducts Mahler, Bartók & Stravinsky

Gustav Mahler Totenfeier
Pierre Boulez conductor
1996 
(DGG)

Béla Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Pierre Boulez conductor
1994 (DGG)

Igor Stravinsky The Firebird
Pierre Boulez conductor
1992 (DGG)

Dec 01, 2024
CSOradio Program #49
Musicians of the Orchestra

Benjamin Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
Seiji Ozawa conductor
1967 (RCA) 

Ralph Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto in F Minor 
Arnold Jacobs tuba
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1977
(DGG) 

Jules Massenet Meditation from Thaïs 
Steven Staryk violin
Jean Martinon conductor
1966
(RCA) 

Robert Schumann Konzertstück for Four Horns in F Major, Op. 86
Dale Clevenger, Richard Oldberg, Thomas Howell, and Norman Schweikert horns
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1977 (DGG)

Claude Debussy Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
Donald Peck flute
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1976
(London)

Richard Strauss Don Quixote, Op. 35
Samuel Magad violin
Charles Pikler viola
John Sharp cello
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1991 
(Erato)

Dec 08, 2024
CSOradio Program #50
Harding Conducts The Planets

Robert Schumann Overture to Manfred, Op. 115
Johannes Brahms Schicksalslied, Op. 54
Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32
Jenny Wong director, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Daniel Harding conductor
February 2024

Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Duain Wolfe director, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1997
(London) 

Dec 15, 2024
CSOradio Program #51
Reiner Rarities

Dmitry Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon Overture
1959
(RCA) 
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 88 in G Major
1960
(RCA)
Jaromír Weinberger Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper
1956 (RCA)
Rolf Liebermann Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra
Sauter-Fienegan Orchestra
1954 (RCA)
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Lisa Della Casa soprano
1958 (RCA)
Fritz Reiner conductor

Dec 22, 2024
CSOradio Program #52
Blomstedt Conducts Dvořák 8

Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104
ENCORE Svante Henryson Black Run from Colors in D Suite for Solo Cello
Andrei Ioniță cello
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
Herbert Blomstedt conductor
March 2023

Ottorino Respighi Fountains of Rome 
Fritz Reiner conductor
1959 (RCA)

Johann Strauss, Jr. Thunder and Lightning Polka, Op. 324
Fritz Reiner conductor 
1960
(RCA)