Podcasts de symphony

CSO Program Notes: Salonen Conducts Daphnis & Chloe

Hear how Greek and Roman mythology have captivated composers with tales of betrayal, love and...

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CSO Program Notes: Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet

James Gaffigan leads a program etched in vivid colors, including Tchaikovsky’s seductive portrait...

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CSO Program Notes: Muti, Mutter & Beethoven Violin Concerto

By turns majestic, lyrical and iconoclastic, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto has been a signature...

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CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Verdi Un ballo in maschera

History supplied Verdi with the subject matter for this gripping drama. It is based on the true...

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CSO Program Notes: Muti & Bronfman

A new season begins as dazzling pianist Yefim Bronfman joins Riccardo Muti and the CSO in Brahms’...

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CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Mozart & Prokofiev

The 2022/23 season will mark 70 years since Sergei Prokofiev’s death. Riccardo Muti conducts...

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CSO Program Notes: Thielemann Conducts Bruckner 8

Bruckner’s last completed symphony is a majestic statement in which every theme feels like a...

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CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Pictures from an Exhibition

Mussorgsky, shaken by the passing of his friend, the artist Victor Hartmann, turned his grief...

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CSO Program Notes: Wagner, Bartók and Vaughan Williams

As Great Britain endured the Blitz in 1943, the 71-year-old Vaughan Williams produced his Fifth...

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CSO Program Notes: Grieg Piano Concerto and Prokofiev 6

Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony was a risky undertaking in post-World War II Russia: a personal...

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CSO Program Notes: CSO & The Joffrey Ballet

Dancers from Chicago’s world-renowned Joffrey Ballet invigorate the Symphony Center stage with...

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CSO Program Notes: Honeck, Capuçon & Shostakovich 5

A journey from brooding despair to rousing triumph, Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony rescued him...

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CSO Program Notes: Hilary Hahn, Tchaikovsky & Bartók

Dalia Stasevska leads the CSO in Bartók’s glittering late masterpiece — which shows off every...

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CSO Program Notes: Stravinsky, Beethoven & Sibelius 2

Sibelius’ intense love of nature is mirrored in his Second Symphony, which inhabits a world of...

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CSO Program Notes: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

Iconoclastic organist Cameron Carpenter, “one of the rare musicians who changes the game of his...

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CSO Program Notes: Alsop Conducts Wolfe: Her Story

Conductor Marin Alsop leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in three pivotal works by 21st-century...

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CSO Program Notes: Shani Conducts Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances

In a program celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov’s birth, Lahav Shani...

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CSO Program Notes: Muti, Fischer & Tchaikovsky Manfred

Tchaikovsky’s turbulent Manfred Symphony takes its inspiration from Lord Byron’s dramatic poem...

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CSO Program Notes: Mäkelä Conducts López Bellido & Mahler 5

In his Fifth Symphony, Mahler embraces all aspects of life. After a tumultuous funeral march, the...

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CSO Program Notes: Blomstedt Conducts Dvořák 8

Eminent Swedish American conductor Herbert Blomstedt leads two Dvořák landmarks — the restless,...

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