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 6 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 Program #40
Salonen & Kuusisto
Maurice Ravel Mother Goose
Bryce Dessner Violin Concerto
Pekka Kuusisto violin
Igor Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
May 2022
Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1981 (London)
CSOradio Program #41
Mahler Festival Broadcast: Mahler 6
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question
Adolf Herserth trumpet
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
1986 (CBS)
Gustav Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer
Yvonne Minton soprano
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1970 (London)
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6
Jaap van Zweden conductor
May 2025
CSOradio Program #42
Carmina burana
Benjamin Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34
Seiji Ozawa conductor
1967 (RCA)
Jessie Montgomery Banner
Einojuhani Rautavaara Canticus Arcticus
Carl Orff Carmina burana
Joélle Harvey soprano
Reginald Mobley countertenor
Hugh Russell baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Jenny Wong guest director
Uniting Voices Chicago
Josephine Lee director
Osmo Vänskä conductor
March 2023
CSOradio Program #43
Ravinia Opening Night 2025
Frederick Stock/John Stafford Smith The Star-Spangled Banner
Carlos Simon Amen
Sergei Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Bruce Liu piano
Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Marin Alsop conductor
July 2025
Alexander Borodin Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Seiji Ozawa conductor
1969 (Angel)
Modest Mussorgsky A Night on Bare Mountain
Seiji Ozawa conductor
1968 (RCA)
Igor Stravinsky Fireworks
Seiji Ozawa conductor
1968 (RCA)
CSOradio Program #44
Opera Without Words
Mikhail Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Fritz 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
1957 (RCA)
Aaron Copland Suite from The Tender Land
Fritz Reiner conductor
1958 (CSO: The First 100 Years)
Pietro Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
Riccardo Muti conductor
2017 (CSO Resound)
Gioachino Rossini Overture to William Tell
Fritz Reiner conductor
1958 (RCA)
Richard Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre
Artur Rodzinski conductor
1948 (CSO: The First 100 Years)
Richard Wagner Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1991 (Erato)
Richard Wagner Dawn, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, and Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1991 (Erato)
CSOradio Program #45
Muti Conducts Sleeping Beauty & Swan Lake
Emil von Reznicek Overture to Donna Diana
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Suite from The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66a
Riccardo Muti conductor
January 2022
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major
Stephanie Jeong violin
So Young Bae violin
Lawrence Neuman viola
Kenneth Olsen cello
Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky Suite from Swan Lake, Op. 20a
Johann Strauss, Jr. Emperor Waltz, Op. 437
Riccardo Muti conductor
January 2022
CSOradio Program #46
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 Haitink conductor
2009 (CSO Resound)
CSOradio Program #47
Barenboim Conducts Bruckner 8
Richard Wagner Prelude to Lohengrin
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1994 (Teldec)
Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1990 (Erato)
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1980 (Deutsche Grammophon)
CSOradio Program #48
Guests in the House
Aram Khachaturian Symphony No. 3 in C Major
Leopold Stokowski conductor
1968 (RCA)
John Williams Suite from Memoirs of a Geisha for Cello and Orchestra
Yo-Yo Ma cello
John Williams conductor
2008 (Sony)
Zoltán Kodály Dances of Galánta
Neeme Järvi conductor
1990 (Chandos)
César Franck Symphony in D Minor
Pierre Monteux conductor
1961 (RCA)
CSOradio Program #49
Rakitina, Weilerstein & Tchaikovsky
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien, Op. 45
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky Variations on a Roccoco Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62
ENCORE Johann Sebastian Bach Sarabande from Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008
Alisa Weilerstein cello
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky Suite from The Nutcracker, Op. 71a
Anna Rakitina conductor
March 2022
Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe director
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1997 (London)
CSOradio Program #50
Solti Conducts Del Tredici
Hector Berlioz Overture to Les Franc-juges, Op. 3
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1974 (London)
Ernst von Dohnányi Variations on a Nursery Song, Op. 25
András Schiff piano
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1985 (London)
Carl Maria von Weber Overture to Oberon
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1973 (London)
David Del Tredici Final Alice
Barbara Hendricks soprano
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1981 (London)
CSOradio Program #51
Mahler Festival Broadcast: Mahler 7
Gustav Mahler Rückert Lieder
Hanna Schwarz mezzo-soprano
Claudio Abbado conductor
1981 (DGG)
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7
Jaap van Zweden conductor
May 2025
Karl Goldmark Ballet Music from The Queen of Sheba
Fritz Reiner conductor
1930 (RCA)
CSOradio Program #52
Handel Messiah & Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
George Frederic Handel Part One of Messiah
Kiri Te Kanawa soprano
Anne Gjevang contralto
Keith Lewis tenor
Gwynne Howell bass-baritone
David Schrader harpsichord
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Margaret Hillis director
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1984 (London)
Giovanni Gabrieli/Eric Crees Sacrae Symphoniae No. 6, Sonata Pian e forte
Giovanni Gabrieli/Eric Crees Canzon duodecimi toni à 10
Giovanni Gabrieli/Eric Crees Canzon septimi toni à 8 (No. 2)
CSO Brass
Mark Ridenour conductor
2010 (CSO Resound)
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky Selections from The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Fritz Reiner conductor
1959 (RCA)