Listen below to highlights from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s national weekly radio series, which airs nationally through the WFMT Radio Network. I have been the series’ producer since 2016.
Salonen & Apkalna
Broadcast July 07, 2025
Stravinsky Four Studies for Orchestra
Pierre Boulez conductor
1992 (DGG)
Strauss Don Juan, Op. 20
Salonen Sinfonia Concertante for Organ and Orchestra
ENCORE Kalejs Toccata on the Chorale “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr”
Iveta Apkalna organ
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Concerto
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Mäkelä Conducts López & Mahler 5
Broadcast May 5, 2025
Corigliano Tournaments Overture
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1984 (CSO First 100 Years)
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela from Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op. 22
Scott Hostetler english horn
López Bellido Aino
Mahler Symphony No. 5
Klaus Mäkelä conductor
February 2023
Van Zweden Conducts Mahler 6
Broadcast June 30, 2024
Stravinsky Divertimento, Suite from The Fairy’s Kiss
Fritz Reiner conductor
1958 (RCA)
Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A Minor
Jaap van Zweden conductor
April 2022
Hrůša Conducts Má vlast
Broadcast April 28, 2024
Gustav Mahler: Totenfeier
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Deutsche Grammophon 1996
Bedřich Smetana: Má vlast
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Recorded May 2017
Muti Conducts Beethoven and Glass
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)
Gaffigan Conducts Shostakovich 8
Dorman Eternal Rhythm
Cynthia Yeh percussion
U.S. Premiere
Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65
James Gaffigan conductor
October 2019
Ravel Boléro
Sir Georg Solti conductor
1976 (London)
Muti Conducts Shostakovich 6
Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, Op. 27
Riccardo Muti conductor
September 2019
Rands DREAM for Orchestra
World premiere
Liszt Mazeppa, Symphonic Poem No. 6
Riccardo Muti conductor
November 2019
Schoenberg Transfigured Night, Op. 4
Matous Michal violin
Simon Michal violin
Weijing Wang viola
Danny Lai viola
Kenneth Olsen cello
Karen Basrak cello
March 2021
Shostakovich Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54
Riccardo Muti conductor
September 2019
Muti and Uchida
Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
Riccardo Muti conductor
Mitsuko Uchida piano
May 2019
Varèse Déserts
Pierre Boulez conductor
1996 DGG
Stravinsky Divertimento, Suite from The Fairy’s Kiss
Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird (1919 Revision)
Riccardo Muti conductor
May 2019