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Chicago Symphony: Riccardo Muti Conducts Rossini and Cherubini
On this Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcast, Riccardo Muti leads the CSO and Chorus in the Rossini Stabat mater, one of the composer’s most stirring and evocative scores. The program also includes Mozart’s Kyrie in D Minor and Cherubini’s Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn. More about this program: Mozart: Kyrie in D minor is a seven-minute…
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Chicago Symphony: John Storgårds Conducts Sibelius and Mendelssohn
Few composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries could evoke loneliness and solitude like Jean Sibelius. But his First Symphony contains far more: undercurrents of Finnish nationalism, hints of folk dances, and a stirring, Tchaikovskian passion. Finnish conductor John Storgårds makes his Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut in this concert leading his fellow countryman’s youthful and imaginative First.
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Chicago Symphony: Gaffigan conducts Bernstein, Barber and Rachmaninov
Guest conductor James Gaffigan leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront, Leonard Bernstein’s only film score. The program continues with James Ehnes as soloist in Barber’s Violin Concerto (plus an encore from Bach’s Sonata No. 3 in C Major) along with Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 led by the CSO’s…
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Susanna Mälkki and Branford Marsalis
On this Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcast, Susanna Mälkki and Branford Marsalis team up for a program with jazz and Spanish inspiration. The program also features the world premiere of the CSO commissioned work, Proceed, Moon, composed by Melinda Wagner. Concluding the program is one of Claude Debussy’s most popular works, Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru. Listen to the…
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Muti Leads Bruckner and Strauss
On this Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcast, Riccardo Muti conducts a program of creative breakthroughs. It includes Strauss’s swaggering tone poem, Don Juan, which gave the composer a career kickstart at age 25. Also featured is Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, a work that brought him his first taste of fame and acceptance at age 60. And to begin…
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Charles Dutoit Conducts Stravinsky
In a colossal career spanning more than 60 years, Igor Stravinsky was constantly reinventing himself with kaleidoscopic shifts in style. Along the way, the Russian composer forged key professional ties. In this program from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, we hear three works linked to the CSO. Charles Dutoit conducts the Symphony in C, which Stravinsky wrote for…