A motley medley of music inspired by birds of all feathers!

Igor Stravinsky’s explosive ballet score, The Firebird, along with Jean Sibelius’s cosmic Luonnotar with soprano Golda Schultz, and the United States premiere of Daniel Kidane’s SF Symphony commission, Sun Poem.

Music director Jaap van Zweden conducts Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Debussy’s La Mer, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major.

No one was more pivotal in 20th century classical music than Igor Stravinsky. We rank his definitive top 10 works.

The new music director designate is just 28 years old. He’ll be the youngest in orchestra history when he takes the baton.

Music by Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, and George Tsontakis.

Orchestral demand for John Williams’ music has risen so much that his career as a classical musician is almost as fruitful as his film music work.

An Igor Stravinsky undectet (that’s 11 players!) and a César Franck quartet.

We want to hear your take! Help us create a definitive ranking of the iconoclastic 20th-century composer’s greatest music.

Follow live on Sunday, February 4, as music’s biggest awards are given out!

The broadcast features works by Wagner, Mahler, Stravinsky, Berg, Debussy and Carter plus some of Mr. Boulez’s own music.

With Sibelius’s music woven through the Hallé’s DNA, expect a stunning performance of The Oceanides, an impressionistic masterpiece that evokes the sea and nymphs of Greek mythology.

Another packed summer of live music awaits.

Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to the CSO podium for Ravel, Stravinsky, and Dessner.

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Andris Nelsons leads works by Carlos Simon, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, and Igor Stravinsky

Klaus Mäkelä makes his CSO debut in Stravinsky’s The Firebird.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs works by Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Moussa.

Music director Jaap van Zweden conducts Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Debussy’s La Mer, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major.

Joshua Bell joins the New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden in a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.

We all came to love classical music in different ways. Here are some of the musical first loves of our WFMT listeners, in their own words.

Cellist Mon-Puo Lee and Pianist Anna Han perform music by Alfred Schnittke, Igor Stravinsky, and Sulkhan Tsintsadze, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

Whether you are looking to rev up for the race or drown out the din, this playlist of cacophonous classical music is for you.

Music director Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the SF Symphony and violinist Leila Josefowicz in music by Stravinsky and Ogonek.

Alan Gilbert conducts this performance from 2015, which features a John Adams world premiere.