On this CSO Radio episode, Riccardo Muti leads the orchestra in the Symphony No. 11 by Philip Glass. The broadcast opens with Beethoven’s Overture to The Ruins of Athens and continues with his Piano Concerto No. 4 featuring Mitsuko Uchida. Rounding out, Fritz Reiner conducts Debussy’s Ibéria from Images for Orchestra. Listen here:

Broadcast available through April 8, 2024

Beethoven Overture to The Ruins of Athens, Op. 113
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Mitsuko Uchida piano
Glass Symphony No. 11
Riccardo Muti conductor
February 2022

Debussy Ibéria from Images for Orchestra
Fritz Reiner conductor
1957 (RCA)

Production
Brian Wise producer
Charlie Post audio engineer
Lisa Simeone host

More about Glass’s Symphony No. 11:

Philip Glass wrote his Eleventh Symphony in 2017 for a celebration of his own 80th birthday at Carnegie Hall. As Philip Huscher writes in his liner notes for the CSO’s “Contemporary American Composers” recording, the Eleventh builds on the grand symphonic tradition of Mahler, Bruckner, Bartok and other composers. It’s in three big movements, says Huscher, “the first bold and driving, the second crowned by a slowly unfolding melody, and the third a barrage of cascading energy and racing percussion.”

Top photo: Philip Glass takes a bow after the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs his Symphony No. 11 on Feb. 19, 2022.

Todd Rosenberg Photography