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 March 28-30.Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida performs and conducts two of his greatest concertos--the charming No. 17 in G Major and the beloved No. 27 in B-flat Major.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO March 21-24. CSO Principal Flute Mathieu Dufour takes center stage to play Khachaturian's sparkling Flute Concerto, an adaptation by Jean-Pierre Rampal for flute of the composer's violin concerto. Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony runs the gamut of emotions from despair to exuberant joy.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO March 14-16. Schoenberg's intensely expressive and technically challenging Violin Concerto is performed by rising young violinist Michael Barenboim.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO March 7-12. Cristian Macelaru, associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, joins legendary pianist Yefim Bronfman for Bartok's stunningly virtuosic Second Piano Concerto, a work for which Bronfman earned a Grammy Award in 1997.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO February 28 - March 2. CSO Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma performs Lutoslawski's emotionally charged Cello Concerto, originally composed in the late-1960s for the legendary Rostropovich.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO February 15-19. Sir Mark Elder returns to lead one of Dvorak's more macabre tone poems, The Water Goblin.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO February 21-23. Hear Esa-Pekka Salonen, Stefan Vinke, Linda Watson, John Relyea and Michelle DeYoung perform Act 2 of Wagner's exalted opera, which contains some of its most entrancing music as the two lovers express their overwhelming passion for one another.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO January 17-19. Riccardo Muti conducts Brahms' beloved Fourth Symphony.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO January 10-15. Radu Lupu performs Beethoven's First Piano Concerto, with its introspective passion simmering behind militaristic rhythms. We then return to the Beethoven of revolutionary, groundbreaking statements with his mighty "Eroica" Symphony, led by Music Director Riccardo Muti.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO December 20-22. Tchaikovsky's monumental Manfred Symphony portrays the brooding, tormented and troubled Romantic hero from Byron's dramatic poem.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO December 13-18. Among England's leading Baroque specialists, Harry Bicket conducts a program featuring the Chicago premiere of the double concerto by CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Anna Clyne paired with the Bach Concerto for Two Violins, both performed by Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO December 6-9. Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, composed after Stalin's death, bears the eloquent testimony of an artist who survived the Soviet dictator's increasingly unhinged reign. Vasily Petrenko conducts,
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO November 29-December 1. Alice Coote lends her dark-hued mezzo-soprano to Berlioz's popular setting of French poems by Theophile Gautier with Sir Mark Elder on the podium.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO November 8-11. Wagner called Beethoven's Seventh Symphony "the apotheosis of the dance," an apt description given its exuberant rhythms and elegant, carefree lines.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO November 14-17. Winner of the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition, emerging young pianist Daniil Trifonov joins Charles Dutoit for Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, which features what is surely the most recognizable of all concerto openings.
