CSO Audio Program Notes
Summary: Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. In collaboration with the best conductors and guest artists on the international music scene, the CSO performs well over one hundred concerts each year at its downtown home, Symphony Center, and at the Ravinia Festival on Chicago’s North Shore, where it is in residency each summer. Music lovers outside Chicago enjoy the sounds of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through best-selling recordings and frequent sold-out tour performances in the United States and around the globe. Visit cso.org for tickets and information.
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Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO May 11-13. Riccardo Muti completes his exploration of Brahms' symphonies with Symphony Nos. 3 and 4, cornerstones of the symphonic repertoire. The Third Symphony, the shortest of the cycle, is Brahms at his most personal and introspective. The Fourth Symphony ends with an exquisitely crafted theme and variations that culminate in an earth-shattering minor chord.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO May 4-9. In the first of two programs devoted to Brahms' symphonies, Riccardo Muti presents the first and second of the cycle. The First Symphony, its opening one of the most arresting in symphonic literature, shows Brahms triumphantly meeting the daunting challenge posed by Beethoven's mighty symphonic cycle. The Second Symphony, composed just months later, reflects Brahms' summer in an idyllic lakeside town.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Apr 27-29. Riccardo Muti leads Radu Lupu, who is "as close to being the embodiment of pure music as one can get" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), in Beethoven's noble Emperor Concerto. Liszt's Dante Symphony is a symphonic poem full of fire and fury that depicts Dante's Divine Comedy.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Apr 20-23. One of the world's most distinguished conductors, Neeme Jarvi leads the CSO in Arvo Part's Fratres, followed by Bartok's Violin Concerto performed by CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen. Beethoven's evocative portrait of nature, his Pastoral Symphony, closes the program.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Apr 13-15. Charles Dutoit conducts a moving Easter weekend program that culminates in a presentation of Faure's beloved Requiem, "one of the most sublime works in the sacred classical canon" (BBC Music). Wagner's serene Good Friday Music offers a striking contrast with Honegger's World War II-inspired Liturgique Symphony.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Apr 6-11. Charles Dutoit leads the CSO in the US Premiere of Stravinsky's recently re-discovered Funeral Song as well as Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, which the composer called "a symphony of the greatness of the human spirit, a song of praise of free and happy mankind." Norwegian cellist Truls Mork, who "enthralls the audience from the first to last note" (The Strad), performs Dvorak's popular Cello Concerto.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Apr 6-11. Charles Dutoit leads the CSO in the US Premiere of Stravinsky's recently re-discovered Funeral Song as well as Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, which the composer called "a symphony of the greatness of the human spirit, a song of praise of free and happy mankind." Norwegian cellist Truls Mork, who "enthralls the audience from the first to last note" (The Strad), performs Dvorak's popular Cello Concerto.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 30 - Apr 1. Over the last 10 years, Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra have explored Mahler's legacy, taking Chicago audiences on a symphonic journey through landscapes of rich musical wisdom and piercing detail. Now they turn to one of the best loved of all his pieces, his Song of the Earth, a setting of poems that perfectly embodied Mahler's bittersweet view of the brevity of human life, and inspired some of the most beautiful and haunting music he ever wrote.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 30 - Apr 1. Over the last 10 years, Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra have explored Mahler's legacy, taking Chicago audiences on a symphonic journey through landscapes of rich musical wisdom and piercing detail. Now they turn to one of the best loved of all his pieces, his Song of the Earth, a setting of poems that perfectly embodied Mahler's bittersweet view of the brevity of human life, and inspired some of the most beautiful and haunting music he ever wrote.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 16-21. Riccardo Muti leads Rossini’s Overture to La scala di seta and Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto featuring Mitsuko Uchida, an artist who “guides the audience through every conceivable emotion” (The Telegraph). Muti closes the program with a world premiere by CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Samuel Adams and Schumann’s Fourth Symphony, in which the composer departed from the standard symphonic form to make a groundbreaking symphony in one movement.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 16-21. Riccardo Muti leads Rossini’s Overture to La scala di seta and Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto featuring Mitsuko Uchida, an artist who “guides the audience through every conceivable emotion” (The Telegraph). Muti closes the program with a world premiere by CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Samuel Adams and Schumann’s Fourth Symphony, in which the composer departed from the standard symphonic form to make a groundbreaking symphony in one movement.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 9-11. Stravinsky's ballet about the lovelorn puppet Petrushka remains one of the most striking orchestral works of the modern repertoire. Esa-Pekka Salonen couples Petrushka with John Adams' equally playful Slonimsky's Earbox and the world premiere of Salonen's own Cello Concerto, played by the legendary Yo-Yo Ma.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 9-11. Stravinsky's ballet about the lovelorn puppet Petrushka remains one of the most striking orchestral works of the modern repertoire. Esa-Pekka Salonen couples Petrushka with John Adams' equally playful Slonimsky's Earbox and the world premiere of Salonen's own Cello Concerto, played by the legendary Yo-Yo Ma.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 2-7. The shock waves produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's full-metal performance of The Rite of Spring proved that Stravinsky's epoch-making ballet can still pack a seismic wallop” (Chicago Classical Review). Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the CSO in Stravinsky's pioneering masterpiece in a program that also celebrates John Adams' 70th birthday with Scheherazade.2, performed by violinist Leila Josefowicz.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 2-7. The shock waves produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's full-metal performance of The Rite of Spring proved that Stravinsky's epoch-making ballet can still pack a seismic wallop” (Chicago Classical Review). Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the CSO in Stravinsky's pioneering masterpiece in a program that also celebrates John Adams' 70th birthday with Scheherazade.2, performed by violinist Leila Josefowicz.
