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 October 17 through October 22. A major landmark of twentieth-century music, Debussy's portrait of the sea in all its moods, from mist-shrouded dawn to the fury of a storm, inspired many other composers, including Sibelius's brilliant, eerie music to The Tempest.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO October 3 through October 11. Beloved by audiences around the world, Prokofiev's suite from the ballet Romeo and Juliet encompasses both the tenderness and fury of Shakespeare's drama.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO September 28 through October 6. Revering Shakespeare above all other playwrights, Giuseppe Verdi based three operas on the Bard's works. His electrifying psychodrama Macbeth was the first, a blood-soaked portrayal of ambition and guilt. Riccardo Muti, the "greatest Verdi conductor of our time" (Chicago Tribune), leads the incomparable Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in this dramatic concert.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO September 19. Music Director Riccardo Muti leads Giuseppe Verdi's powerful ballet music from Macbeth in honor of the opera composer's bicentennial and rounds the concert off with the sunniest of Brahms's symphonies, which opens with horns rising like the dawn over brooding lower strings.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO June 20-23. Riccardo Muti, his Orchestra and Chorus close the 2012/13 season with Verdi's expressive Four Sacred Pieces, plus Vivaldi's dramatic Magnificat.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO June 6-11. CSO Principal Oboe Eugene Izotov performs Martinu's neoclassical, wry and deliciously lyrical Oboe Concerto--a cool sorbet against the spicy extremes of Scriabin's The Divine Poem, a lavishly orchestrated and exuberant masterwork clearly indebted to Wagner's Ring cycle.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO June 13-15. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes tames the furies in Beethoven's poetic Fourth Piano Concerto. Muti and the CSO conclude this concert with the work that launched the symphonic career of an ardent admirer of Wagner, Anton Bruckner.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO May 30 - June 4. The magisterial opening movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 is one of the most unforgettable in the composer's orchestral canon. Phenomenal French pianist David Fray joins lauded conductor Jaap Van Zweden for this work, which Beethoven chose for one of his first Viennese appearances as soloist.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO May 23-28. French piano icon Jean-Yves Thibaudet draws out the subtleties and expressive colors of Saint-Sa�ns' exotic Fifth Piano Concerto, written while the composer was visiting Cairo.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO May 9-14. Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade is one of his most richly evocative scores, his sense of orchestral color enlivened and refined by his encounter with Wagner's musical dramas.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO May 1-4. Spanish flamenco royalty Marina Heredia lends her alluring voice to Falla's El amor brujo, which weaves the tale of two young Gypsy lovers who chase away an evil ghost with a fiery flamenco dance.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO April 25-27. Italian musical masters Riccardo Muti and Maurizio Pollini collaborate with the CSO for Mozart's majestic and inventive Piano Concerto No. 21. Schumann's Third Symphony, a musical postcard from the vistas of the Rhineland, follows intermission.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO April 18-23. Music Director Riccardo Muti Conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 4
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO April 4-6. Spectacular pianist Yuja Wang, who wowed Chicago audiences and critics alike with her performance of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto in 2007, returns to play Prokofiev's colorful and invigorating Third Piano Concerto which the composer himself first premiered with the CSO in 1921.
Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO April 11-16. The Chorus joins Music Director Riccardo Muti and the CSO for Bach's monumental Mass in B Minor.
