Tag: radio
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Chicago Symphony: Muti Conducts Beethoven and Glass
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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…
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Gaffigan & Yeh
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On this CSO broadcast, James Gaffigan leads principal percussionist Cynthia Yeh and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the U.S premiere of Avner Dorman’s Eternal Rhythm followed by a performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8. The program concludes with Ravel’s Boléro led by Sir George Solti from a 1976 London recording. This CSO broadcast is available through April 5, 2023…
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Muti Conducts Shostakovich 6
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On this Chicago Symphony Orchestra radio broadcast, Riccardo Muti leads Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor and Liszt’s Mazeppa. The program, recorded in September 2019, also includes the world premiere of Rands’ DREAM for Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture and Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night recorded for CSO Sessions. Listen here: Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony After his triumphant Fifth Symphony, Dmitri Shostakovich…
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Muti & Uchida
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On this CSO broadcast, Riccardo Muti leads Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 featuring soloist Mitsuko Uchida. The broadcast continues with a 1996 recording of Varèse’s Déserts conducted by Pierre Boulez. Rounding out the program, Riccardo Muti conducts Stravinsky’s Divertimento, Suite from The Fairy’s Kiss and Suite from The Firebird. Listen here for free: Mozart Overture…
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Kirill Karabits and Sunwook Kim
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On this Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcast, Kirill Karabits leads Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Capriccio brillant for Piano and Orchestra, both featuring pianist Sunwook Kim. The program also includes Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes, Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, and concludes with a 1978 Deutsche Grammophon recording of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony led by CSO principal guest conductor Carlo Maria…
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Marin Alsop & Hilary Hahn
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On this Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcast, violinist Hilary Hahn joins conductor Marin Alsop to perform Sibelius’s spirited and rhapsodic Violin Concerto. Alsop also conducts Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, a large, brooding and ultimately triumphant score. Plus: a look at how Brahms used German drinking songs in his Academic Festival Overture. Listen here: Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80Sibelius Violin…
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Chicago Symphony: Riccardo Muti Conducts Rossini and Cherubini
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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
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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 Orchestra: Susanna Mälkki and Branford Marsalis
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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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Branding Classical Music to ‘Trick’ Younger Listeners
The Guardian recently reported that the BBC Radio 3 is considering whether to remove BBC branding from its new classical podcasts, in an effort to entice more young people into trying them out.