ILLINOIS CLASSICAL: The Evening Concert: FEBRUARY 22 – 23 –24 – 25 – 26 – 27, 2026 

Wednesday night October 9 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL, 90.9FM/HD1 it’s the second program in a new series from the European Broadcasting Union. Yuja Wang is the soloist in Prokofiev’s “1st Piano Concerto” with the Berlin Philharmonic led by Vasily Petrenko. Also on the program Ravel’s “Bolero”. 

Thursday night July 27 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the fourth program from this year’s “Carnegie Hall Live” series. Kirill Petrenko leads the Berlin Philharmonic in Mahler’s monumental “7th Symphony”.  Also on the program the Brentano Quartet plays a string quartet by Haydn.

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s a “Deutsche Welle Festival Concert”. You’ll hear the Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Chorus and vocal soloists in Verdi’s “Requiem”. Also on the program Ukranian composer  Silvestrov’s “The Messenger”. 

Thursday night July 14 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the first program from the “Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts” series. Kirill Petrenko leads the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s “Rome and Juliet Fantasy Overture” and “3rd Orchestral Suite”. Also on the program Rachmaninoff’s “2nd Symphony”.