CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Beethoven Missa solemnis
Few mass settings pose more questions of listeners than Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. A fervent...
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CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Beethoven Missa solemnis
Few mass settings pose more questions of listeners than Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. A fervent...
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CSO Program Notes: Muti, Glass & Mendelssohn Italian
Join Riccardo Muti and the CSO for a sensuous journey to Italy. Richard Strauss’ Aus Italien...
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CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts The Firebird
Riccardo Muti and the CSO open the 2023/24 Season with two pieces capturing the fairy-tale...
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CSO Program Notes: Jaap van Zweden Conducts Beethoven 5
From its commanding four-note opening to its blazing finish, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony remains...
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CSO Program Notes: Gershwin & Bernstein
An exuberant melding of jazz, blues and classical styles, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F is an...
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Mahler’s First Symphony unfolds with the elemental sounds of nature, foot-stomping folk dances...
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CSO Program Notes: The Planets
Daniel Harding leads Holst’s The Planets, the interstellar orchestral suite that has inspired...
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CSO Program Notes: Glass & Rachmaninov
Rachmaninov’s poignant Third Symphony evokes the Russia he left behind. Violinist Karen Gomyo,...
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CSO Program Notes: The Rite of Spring & Kavakos
A panorama of ancient pagan rituals, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring put modernism squarely on...
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CSO Program Notes: MTT Conducts Mozart
Michael Tilson Thomas lends his fresh insights to a compelling Austro-Germanic program. It...
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CSO Program Notes: Hilary Hahn Plays Brahms
CSO Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn illuminates Brahms’ Violin Concerto, with its ardent beauty...
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CSO Program Notes: Bychkov Conducts Brahms
When Renaud Capuçon and Semyon Bychkov last appeared together with the CSO, sparks flew. The...
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CSO Program Notes: Sir Andrew Conducts Handel’s Messiah
Experience the power of nearly 100 voices in magnificent harmony. From “The Trumpet Shall Sound”...
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CSO Program Notes: Seong-Jin Cho Plays Beethoven
Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto is a landmark of his dark and restless middle period, here...
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CSO Program Notes: Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Elgar
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, hailed by The New Yorker as “a cellist of blazing sensitivity,” makes his CSO...
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CSO Program Notes: Schubert & Beethoven
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is treasured by generations of music fans for its whirling dance...
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CSO Program Notes: Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich
With his Ninth Symphony, Shostakovich delivered a tragicomic work with nods to Haydn and circus...
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CSO Program Notes: Gil Shaham Plays Mendelssohn
Experience the “brilliant and incisive” (Chicago Tribune) Gil Shaham in Mendelssohn’s Violin...
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CSO Program Notes: Also sprach Zarathustra
Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra — with its iconic opening popularized in 2001: A Space Odyssey —...
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CSO Program Notes: The Music of Bach
Be transported to Zimmermann’s Coffee House, the Leipzig café where J.S. Bach introduced many of...
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