Chicago Symphony Orchestra

KPBX 91.1, Thursday, 8pm-10pm

The central mission of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is to present classical music through the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to Chicago, national and international audiences.

Program Listings

July 29, 2010
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff returns to play Brahms, with conductor Jaap van Zweden.
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (Christian Tetzlaff, violin)
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No 2
Wagenaar: Cyrano de Bergerac, Op. 23

August 5, 2010
David Robertson conducts the rarely-heard Violin Concerto by Kurt Weill with Canadian violinist James Ehnes.
Purcell: Chacony in G Minor
Weill: Violin Concerto, Op. 12 (James Ehnes, violin)
Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

August 12, 2010
Sir Mark Elder conducts an eclectic program from the Romantic era.
Berlioz: Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, Reformation
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 (Emanuel Ax, piano)
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi
Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 (Ludovic Morlot, conductor)

August 19, 2010
Music from, (and paying homage to), the 18th century, with early music specialists Trevor Pinnock and Harry Bicket.
Faure: Masques et Bergamasques
Haydn: Overture to L’Isola Disabitata
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major (Paul Gomziakov, cello)
Trad/Casals: Song of the Birds
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Rameau: Suite from Les Boreades (Harry Bicket, conductor)

August 26, 2010
Daniel Barenboim has always championed the music of American composer Elliott Carter. He conducts and plays the world premiere of Carter's Soundings in this program, and leads the orchestra in Schubert's great Symphony No. 9.
Carter: Soundings (Daniel Barenboim, piano)
Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Lang Lang, piano)
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944

September 2, 2010
CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen is the soloist in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with French conductor Ludovic Morlot.
Martinu: The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
Debussy: La Mer
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (Robert Chen, violin)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 (Jonathan Biss, piano)

September 9, 2010
Storytelling and dance music infuse this program conducted by Carlos Kalmar and Charles Dutoit.
Falla: Three Dances from El amor brujo
Bates: Music from Underground Spaces
Ravel: Mother Goose
Ravel: La Valse
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Charles Dutoit, conductor)

September 16, 2010
Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto makes his subscription debut with the CSO.
Revueltas: Suite from Redes
Yanov-Yanovsky: Cello Concerto [world premiere; CSO commission] (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54
Williams: Memoirs of a Geisha for Cello and Orchestra (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)

September 23, 2010
The CSO presents the U.S. premiere of a work by Detlev Glanert, followed by a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 5. Semyon Bychkov conducts.
Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto in C (Jennifer Gunn, piccolo; Harry Bicket, conductor)
Glanert: Theatrum bestiarum, Songs and Dances for Large Orchestra (US Premiere)
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Semyon Bychkov, conductor)

September 30, 2010
In his first concerts as music director designate in January 2009, Riccardo Muti conducts the CSO in Verdi's Requiem; and Sir Mark Elder conducts a sacred work from the CSO's spring Dvorak Festival.
Verdi: Messa da Requiem (Barbara Frittoli, soprano; Olga Borodina, mezzosoprano; Mario Zeffiri, tenor; Ildar Abdrazakov, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director; Riccardo Muti, conductor)
Dvorak: Te Deum (Patricia Racette, soprano; Philip Cutlip, baritone, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director; Sir Mark Elder, conductor)