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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wednesdays, 8pm
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Weekly concerts from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
July 9
Williams Times Two: John Williams conducts a concert of his own music,
including his bassoon concerto, The Five Sacred Trees. And the orchestra
plays Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A London Symphony from a concert conducted
by Robert Spano.
John Williams: Fanfare for a Festive Occasion (John Williams, conductor)
John Williams: Tributes! (for Seiji) (John Williams, conductor)
John Williams: The Five Sacred Trees (John Williams, conductor; David
McGill, bassoon)
John Williams: Four Pieces from American Journey (John Williams, conductor)
John Williams: Sayuri’s Theme from Memoirs of a Geisha (John Williams,
conductor)
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Robert Spano, conductor)
July 16
Remembering Reiner: Commercial recordings of programmatic music from the
Fritz Reiner era, encompassing many of his best-known performances.
R. Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 2.
Falla: El amor brujo (Leontyne Price, soprano)
Falla: Neighbor’s Dance (Seguidillas) from The Three-Cornered Hat
Wagner: Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (Rosalind Elias, mezzo-soprano; Chicago Symphony
Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director)
July 23
Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez leads a program featuring mezzo-soprano
Susan Graham and pianist Daniel Barenboim.
Berio: Quatre Dédicaces
Berlioz: Les nuits d’été (Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano)
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Daniel Barenboim, piano)
July 30
Osvaldo Golijov’s award-winning chamber opera, Ainadamar, depicts
the life and work of poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts.
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
Golijov: Ainadamar (Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Jessica Rivera, soprano; Kelley
O’Connor, mezzo-soprano)
August 6
CSO principal oboist Eugene Izotov sheds new light on Mozart’s Oboe
Concerto in a program conducted by the young French conductor Ludovic
Morlot.
Dvorák: Slavonic Dances
Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314 (Eugene Izotov, oboe)
Bizet: Suite No. 2 from L’arlésienne
Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 (Jonathan Biss, piano)
August 13
CSO commentator Gerard McBurney delves into the literary and historical
roots of
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, in excerpts from a new edition of
Beyond the Score. Alexander Polianichko conducts this performance from
January.
Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43 (Alexander
Polianichko, conductor)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (Alexander Polianichko,
conductor; Piotr Anderszewski, piano)
Tchaikovsky: Marche slav in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31 (Claudio Abbado, conductor)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor (Alexander Polianichko, conductor)
August 20
Retrospective: Folklore, Legends and Heroes
Kodály: Háry János, Suite for Orchestra, Op. 35a
(Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
Ran: Legends for Orchestra (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
Orff: Carmina Burana (James Levine, conductor)
August 27
A 2008 subscription concert led by conductor Antonio Pappano. Cellist
Han-Na Chang is the soloist in the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2,
which she learned from her teacher Mstislav Rostropovich, for whom the
concerto was written.
Liadov: The Enchanted Lake
Debussy: Syrinx (Mathieu Dufour, flute)
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 126 (Han-Na Chang, cello)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
September 3
Stephen Hough is a scholar as well as a pianist. Hear a fascinating interview
with him about Rachmaninov’s unusual Fourth Piano Concerto, plus
a performance by cellist Lynn Harrell of the Elgar Cello Concerto and
20th century Czech music, all conducted by Mark Elder.
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 (Lynn Harrell, cello)
Janácek: Jealousy
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40 (Stephen Hough, piano)
Kancheli: …à la Duduki
Janácek: Taras Bulba
September 10
Conductor Semyon Bychkov and Russian-born oboist Eugene Lzotov share their
somber thoughts about the condition of the Russian people portrayed in
the Symphony No. 7 by Shostakovich. And the young Chinese pianist Yundi
Li plays Ravel.
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture, Op. 26 (Leonard Slatkin, conductor)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major (Semyon Bychkov, conductor; Yundi Li,
piano)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60, Leningrad (Semyon Bychkov,
conductor)
September 17
Retrospective/Season Preview: The theme of the 2008-2009 season is Echoes
of Nations, showcasing nationalistic characteristics of music from many
countries. The repertoire on this program draws from our archive of commercial
CDs, but all of these pieces will be performed live during the season
and will appear on future BP Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcasts.
Ives: The Unanswered Question (Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor)
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Fritz Reiner,
conductor)
Dvorák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70 (James Levine, conductor)
Berlioz: Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
September 24
Gerard McBurney directs a multimedia production of Beyond the Score, exploring
the disturbing social context of the Symphony No. 4 by Shostakovich. Principal
Conductor Bernard Haitink leads the CSO in a concert performance of it.
The entire production is being released as a digital ownload on CSO Resound.
Ravel: Menuet antique
Haydn: Symphony No 101 in D Major, The Clock
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 43
October 1
Conductor John Eliot Gardiner and pianist Robert Levin provide their unique
insight into this March 2008 performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano
Concerto.
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks (Nicolas McGegan, conductor)
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony for Strings in C Minor, Op. 110a (John
Eliot Gardiner, conductor)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (John Eliot Gardiner,
conductor; Robert Levin, piano)
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97, Rhenish (John Eliot
Gardiner, conductor)
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