Below are several highlights from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s national weekly radio series, which airs nationally through the WFMT Radio Network. I have been series’ producer since 2016.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Muti Conducts Beethoven and Glass
![Philip Glass takes a bow after the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs his Symphony No. 11 on Feb. 19, 2022. Todd Rosenberg Photography](https://brianwise.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/philip-glass-cso20220219_604.jpg)
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.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Gaffigan Conducts Shostakovich 8
![James Gaffigan leads the CSO in music by Dorman and Shostakovich. Photo: Todd Rosenberg](https://brianwise.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/gaffigan-yeh.jpeg)
On this CSO broadcast, James Gaffigan conducts Avner Dorman’s Eternal Rhythm followed by a Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Muti Conducts Shostakovich 6
![Riccardo Muti leads the CSO in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.](https://brianwise.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/muti-cso-1200x780-1.jpeg)
On this Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcast, Riccardo Muti leads Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Liszt’s Mazeppa, and works by Mendelssohn, Schoenberg and Rands.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Muti and Uchida
![Mitsuko Uchida (c) Geoffroy Schied](https://brianwise.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Mitsuko-Uchida-c-Geoffroy-Schied-1.jpg)
Riccardo Muti leads Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro and Piano Concerto No. 20 (with Mitsuko Uchida, pictured), plus Stravinsky’s Firebird suite.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Kirill Karabits and Sunwook Kim
![Kirill Karabits acknowledges Sunwook Kim | © Anne Ryan 2019](https://brianwise.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CSO-Kim-980x520-1.jpg)
Kirill Karabits conducts Lutoslawski’s folk-inspired Concerto for Orchestra. And Sunwook Kim is the soloist in Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto.