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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A centennial celebration of musical icon Leonard Bernstein continues with Kent Nagano conducting one of his most profound compositions, The Age of Anxiety Symphony. A jazzy, concerto-like work inspired by a poem written by W.H. Auden, it tells the story of four strangers in a New York bar who connect through a shared search for the meaning of life. The evening closes with Schumann's First Symphony, a joyous celebration of spring.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 22-24. The celebrated Chicago Symphony Chorus, marking its 60th anniversary in 2017/18, joins Riccardo Muti, the CSO and international soloists for a moving performance of Schubert's exquisite final Mass, written at the end of the young composer's life.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 22-24. The celebrated Chicago Symphony Chorus, marking its 60th anniversary in 2017/18, joins Riccardo Muti, the CSO and international soloists for a moving performance of Schubert's exquisite final Mass, written at the end of the young composer's life.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 15-17. Riccardo Muti, a superlative interpreter of Classical-era works, conducts a program of compositions by Haydn and Mozart. CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen is featured soloist in Mozart's celebrated Sinfonia concertante. "Chen gave an intense and impassioned performance in a work that is virtuosically demanding, and the result was a powerful experience" (Seen and Heard International).
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 15-17. Riccardo Muti, a superlative interpreter of Classical-era works, conducts a program of compositions by Haydn and Mozart. CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen is featured soloist in Mozart's celebrated Sinfonia concertante. "Chen gave an intense and impassioned performance in a work that is virtuosically demanding, and the result was a powerful experience" (Seen and Heard International).
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 8-11. This colorful program ranges from Shostakovich's haunting First Violin Concerto, performed by Greek virtuoso Leonidas Kavakos, to Debussy's portrait of the sea. "Shostakovich's Violin Concerto brought out the best in Kavakos...an intriguing mixture of fierce energy and fierce self-restraint" (Financial Times). An atmospheric and dramatic entr'acte from Berlioz's epic opera The Trojans portrays Dido and Aeneas' journey through a royal hunt and storm.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 8-11. This colorful program ranges from Shostakovich's haunting First Violin Concerto, performed by Greek virtuoso Leonidas Kavakos, to Debussy's portrait of the sea. "Shostakovich's Violin Concerto brought out the best in Kavakos...an intriguing mixture of fierce energy and fierce self-restraint" (Financial Times). An atmospheric and dramatic entr'acte from Berlioz's epic opera The Trojans portrays Dido and Aeneas' journey through a royal hunt and storm.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 1-3. Eminent conductor Herbert Blomstedt returns to Orchestra Hall in a program that pairs two great works linked by their undeniable power and passion. The driving introduction of Mozart's Symphony No. 39 served as inspiration for the first movement of Beethoven's magnificent, revolutionary Eroica Symphony.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 1-3. Eminent conductor Herbert Blomstedt returns to Orchestra Hall in a program that pairs two great works linked by their undeniable power and passion. The driving introduction of Mozart's Symphony No. 39 served as inspiration for the first movement of Beethoven's magnificent, revolutionary Eroica Symphony.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Feb 22-27. French pianist David Fray's Symphony Center recital last spring was called "musical poetry" by the Chicago Tribune. He returns to perform Chopin's tenderly lyrical Second Piano Concerto. Christoph Eschenbach, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, rounds out a richly romantic program with Carl Maria von Weber's noble overture to his opera Der Freischütz and two of Mendelssohn's most beloved masterpieces.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Feb 22-27. French pianist David Fray's Symphony Center recital last spring was called "musical poetry" by the Chicago Tribune. He returns to perform Chopin's tenderly lyrical Second Piano Concerto. Christoph Eschenbach, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, rounds out a richly romantic program with Carl Maria von Weber's noble overture to his opera Der Freischütz and two of Mendelssohn's most beloved masterpieces.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Feb 1-3. Riccardo Muti conducts a program of expressive works ranging from Stravinsky's brilliantly colorful showpiece Scherzo fantastique to two evocative works inspired by the sea. Witness the spectacular CSO low brass section, distinguished for its purity of sound and clarity of attack, in a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon, whose compositions have been acclaimed as "the most inventive and substantive additions to American music in years" (The Baltimore Sun).
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Feb 1-3. Riccardo Muti conducts a program of expressive works ranging from Stravinsky's brilliantly colorful showpiece Scherzo fantastique to two evocative works inspired by the sea. Witness the spectacular CSO low brass section, distinguished for its purity of sound and clarity of attack, in a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon, whose compositions have been acclaimed as "the most inventive and substantive additions to American music in years" (The Baltimore Sun).
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Jan 25-30. Manfred Honeck leads the CSO in Mahler's epic Fifth Symphony. Opening with a lone trumpet call, this spectacular work launched a new chapter in Mahler's music—an instrumental symphonic style filled with an inward-looking dramatic intensity. Till Fellner returns to perform Mozart's grand Piano Concerto No. 25.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Jan 25-30. Manfred Honeck leads the CSO in Mahler's epic Fifth Symphony. Opening with a lone trumpet call, this spectacular work launched a new chapter in Mahler's music—an instrumental symphonic style filled with an inward-looking dramatic intensity. Till Fellner returns to perform Mozart's grand Piano Concerto No. 25.
