Radio Programs

Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra © Todd Rosenberg Photography

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.


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


Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Kirill Karabits and Sunwook Kim

Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34b
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25
Mendelssohn Capriccio brillant in B Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 22
Beethoven Adagio cantabile (second movement) from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 (Pathétique)
Sunwook Kim, piano
Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor
Originally recorded at concerts in October 2019

Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 758 (Unfinished)
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
DGG 1978