Sundays at 8pm

Photo by Todd Rosenberg
Hear live performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra alongside selections from the orchestra’s expansive catalog of recordings. Find out the fascinating stories found inside the music; get insights from the CSO musicians, guest artists, and composers themselves; and learn more about the music and programmatic themes highlighted during the CSO’s concert season. Hosted by Lisa Simeone.
Schedule
November 8
Mahler Festival Broadcast: Mahler 6This week, experience the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the 2025 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam, as Jaap van Zweden leads Mahler’s Symphony No. 6. The broadcast opens with Sir George Solti leading Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, featuring soprano Yvonne Minton.
Conductor
Sir Georg Solti
Gustav Mahler
Songs of a Wayfarer
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6
November 15
Barenboim Conducts Bruckner 8This broadcast features iconic recordings of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s ninth music director, Daniel Barenboim, conducting Wagner’s Prelude to Lohengrin, Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8.
Conductor
Daniel Barenboim
Richard Wagner
Prelude to Lohengrin
1994 (Teldec)Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor
1980 (Deutsche Grammophon)Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28
1990 (Erato)
