Spanish harpsichordist Ignacio Prego presents a program of keyboard music at the Spanish Court during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. It's a fascinating musical journey through three centuries of Spanish keyboard music, starting with the Court of Felipe II. This was Baroque&Before's inaugural program, first heard January 2, 2014. Recorded live in concert October 31, 2013 at Instituto Cervantes Chicago, as part of the Eighth Latino Music Festival, the program concludes with Ignacio Prego's commercial recording of Bach's Toccata in e minor.

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/08/17/ignacio-prego-el-canto-de-cavallero/

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Legendary composer John Williams is joined by Anne-Sophie Mutter for a sampling of some of his most celebrated film scores and his Violin Concerto No. 2. May the Scores Be With You: Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter Joins Forces With John Williams All works composed and conducted by John Williams Sound the Bells! Violin Concerto No. 2 [New York Premiere] Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin 'Flight to Neverland' from Hook Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind 'Donnybrook Fair' from Far & Away The

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/08/02/john-williams/

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Alexander Malofeev (Photo: Xenie Zasetskaya) Pianist Alexander Malofeev won the International Tchaikovsky Competition at the age of 13. Now 20 years old, the phenom made his delayed Ravinia debut earlier this summer with an all-Russian program including Rachmaninoff's eight Études-Tableaux, works by Prokofiev and Medtner, as well as a number of encores for the dazzled audience. Recorded August 4. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Études-Tableaux, op. 33 Sonatas by Sergei Prokofiev and Nikolai Medtner

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/08/15/alexander-malofeev/

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Founded in 1993, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra celebrates the contributions of classical musicians of African descent, bringing together professionals from leading orchestras across the country to perform and inspire communities through the power of music. Hear this marvelous orchestra make its Carnegie Hall debut in a performance of works by Johannes Brahms, George Walker, and Florence Price, along with James V. Cockerham's vibrant Fantasia on 'Lift Every Voice and Sing.' The excitement level is raised even higher when Perspectives artist Jon Batiste joins them for the world premiere of his new work.

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/08/09/jon-batiste-gateways-music-festival-orchestra/

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Moms Mabley, 1968 (Source: wikimedia.org) Comedy pioneer Moms Mabley was Studs Terkel's guest in 1961. Loretta Mary Aiken was born in 1894 and became a trailblazing performer known for her warm yet edgy stand-up routines and popular albums.

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/07/08/moms-mabley-06-13-1961-2/

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Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony (Photo: Kristin Loken) Season Finale: Michael Tilson Thomas, the orchestra's music director laureate, conducts Mahler's Ninth Symphony. Next Series: Los Angeles Philharmonic Los Angeles Philharmonic Mahler: Symphony No. 9

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/06/30/tilson-thomas-mahler-9/

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Civic Orchestra of Chicago, led by Riccardo Muti, performed a free 'Concert for Chicago' at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park on September 20, 2018.(Photo: Todd Rosenberg) A live broadcast from Millennium Park for the city, as Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra close out the season with a free concert of music by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. Shostakovich: Festive Overture Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/06/27/cso-concert-for-chicago/

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Jan Peerce, 1944 (Source: Hymn of the Nations, a film by United States Office of War Information via wikimedia.org) The beloved and versatile American tenor, Jan Peerce, child of Jewish immigrants, was born in New York City in 1904. His career spanned six decades, including nearly thirty years as a Metropolitan Opera favorite. In 1961, Jan Peerce spoke with Studs Terkel about Verdi, cantorial repertoire, and more.

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/05/27/jan-peerce-05-15-1961/

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Inspired by The Nash Ensemble and Camerata Pacifica, violist Beth McNinch founded Musici Ireland in 2012. Tonight we hear the ensemble in Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Rustic Concerto, as well as in Telemann's Viola Concerto, the first known concerto featuring the viola as solo instrument, and a suite by Pezel. Recorded July 18, 2021 in Wells House, County Wexford, Ireland, thanks to WFMT's association with the European Broadcasting Union, tonight's program will be available as a stream for 30 days following the broadcast.

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/05/11/four-seasons-more-with-musici-ireland/

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Passover began the evening of April 15 and ends in the evening of April 23. Tonight, Baroque&Before celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt with a program of sacred, paraliturgical, celebratory, and secular music of the Jews of the Mediterranean: Spain, Greece, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. Tonight's program will be available for on demand listening for two weeks following the broadcast. Anonymous Invocación: Qamti Be-Ishon Layla Yehudá Haleví (1075-1141) Siónida:

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/04/20/songs-laments-of-the-sephardim-2/

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This is a rebroadcast from February 2, 2009. This first time collaboration brings cello sonatas from Beethoven, Debussy, and Chopin. Sonata No. 5 for Cello and Piano, Op. 102, No. 2, by Beethoven Allegro con brio Adagio con molto sentiment d'affetto – Attacca Allegro – Allegro fugato

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/03/21/wendy-warner-and-inna-faliks-rebroadcast

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In the words of harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, 'There are few who can lay claim to have rediscovered an entire art, but Nigel Rogers earned the right to be one of those people who've changed musical performance forever. Before him, the true sound of Monteverdi and Cavalli and Cesti and Caccini was impossible to know, and after him, it will never be the same. The word giant is one I'd almost never use for a musician of our time, but he is for sure a giant for all time.' On this week's edition of Baroque&Before, we offer an appreciation of the late Nigel Rogers, the renowned tenor specializing in baroque, sacred, and early music, who died January 19, 2022 at the age of 86.

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/03/02/ave-atque-vale-we-remember-nigel-rogers

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Celebrating the great composer-lyricist of our time, Being Alive: WFMT Remembers Stephen Sondheim gathers up a wealth of Stephen Sondheim's stage and screen creations to revisit… or discover. His work ran the gamut from West Side Story, Gypsy, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum to the remarkable, adventurous musicals directed by Harold Prince: Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, and so much more. The Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips is your

https://www.wfmt.com/2022/01/04/being-alive-wfmt-remembers-stephen-sondheim/

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