Cso Audio Program Notes
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Enjoy the music even more by listening to CSO Program Notes before and after the performance. Notes describe the works being performed and the histories and personalities behind the music. Written by Phillip Huscher and read by Rich Capparela. Available in other formats at cso.org/programnotes.
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CSO Program Notes: Muti Andsnes & Grieg Piano Concerto
10/09/2019 Duração: 10minRiccardo Muti opens his 10th season as music director with two dramatic Russian works—Alexander Scriabin's haunting first orchestral composition and Shostakovich's pensive Sixth Symphony, written during a time of prewar tension. The brilliant Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the most gifted musicians of his generation," performs Edvard Grieg's treasured Piano Concerto.
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CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Verdi Aida
17/06/2019 Duração: 21min“For more than 40 years, Riccardo Muti has been the king of Verdi conductors, the one who most makes you feel you are hearing the composer’s operas for the very first time” (The New York Times). Through his tenure as music director, Muti has conducted highly acclaimed CSO performances of Verdi operas, including a landmark presentation of Falstaff in 2016. The maestro now leads a concert performance of Verdi’s grandest opera, the triumphant Aida, featuring a spectacular cast of international singers and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
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CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Beethoven & Gershwin
11/06/2019 Duração: 14minRiccardo Muti leads Gershwin's cinematic An American in Paris and two piccolo concertos featuring the CSO's own Jennifer Gunn. Also on the program is the world premiere of a bass trombone concerto by James Stephenson, a composer of "straightforward, unabashedly beautiful sounds" (The Boston Herald), featuring Charles Vernon of the world-famous Chicago Symphony Orchestra brass.
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CSO Program Notes: Stravinsky and the Joffrey Ballet
29/05/2019 Duração: 11minThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra and The Joffrey Ballet bring to life neo-classical works by Stravinsky. This electrifying collaboration includes a world premiere ballet set to the Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, a work inspired by J.S. Bach's Brandenburg concertos, and the ballet Commedia by internationally acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, set to Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite.
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CSO Program Notes: Hahn Plays Sibelius Violin Concerto
13/05/2019 Duração: 14minIncluding Sibelius’ spirited Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn, “the epitome of violinist perfection” (Nürnberger Nachrichten), plus Rachmaninov’s strikingly beautiful Second Symphony. Tickets and more info: https://cso.org/ticketsandevents/production-details-2018-19/chicago-symphony-orchestra/hahn-sibelius-violin-concerto/
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CSO Program Notes: Muti, Uchida & Mozart
03/05/2019 Duração: 14min“Uchida’s remarkable approach to the piano is a given. But the way in which Muti and the Orchestra seemed to be breathing as one with her every second of the way had an astonishing effect, and made the audience fully complicit in the magic” (Chicago Sun-Times). Muti, Uchida and the CSO reunite for Mozart’s dark and urgent Piano Concerto No. 20, followed by a divertimento and suites from two of Stravinsky’s brilliant ballet scores, The Fairy's Kiss and The Firebird. Tickets and more info: https://cso.org/ticketsandevents/production-details-2018-19/chicago-symphony-orchestra/muti-uchida-mozart/
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CSO Program Notes: Muti Pines Of Rome
30/04/2019 Duração: 16minRiccardo Muti leads an evening of dramatic and evocative works, pairing Respighi’s captivating Pines of Rome with a rare performance of Bizet’s own portrait of the great city. Celebrated mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato returns for Berlioz’s poignant cantata based on the ill-fated Cleopatra. “The staggering, joyful artistry of Joyce DiDonato—one of the finest singers of our time—compels us to listen actively, to hear things anew” (Gramophone). Tickets and more info: https://cso.org/ticketsandevents/production-details-2018-19/chicago-symphony-orchestra/muti-pines-of-rome/
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CSO Program Notes: Muti conducts Beethoven & Wagner
08/03/2019 Duração: 11minRiccardo Muti leads a wide-ranging program featuring music from Rossini’s witty comic opera Il viaggio a Reims and Wagner’s Overture to Tannhäuser. Also on the program are two virtuosic concertos—one baroque and one contemporary—featuring CSO Piccolo Jennifer Gunn, and Beethoven’s cheerful Second Symphony.
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CSO Program Notes: Beethoven Emperor Concerto
28/02/2019 Duração: 12minDavid Afkham makes his highly anticipated return to conduct the CSO in Beethoven’s noble Emperor Concerto and Dvořák’s dramatic Seventh Symphony. “Afkham rocked Orchestra Hall with an exciting debut. The audience was up on its feet in an instant, roaring for more” (Chicago Tribune).
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CSO Program Notes: Rachmaninov Tchaikovsky
12/02/2019 Duração: 17minSpanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado leads a program of Russian masterworks including Tchaikovsky's First Symphony, which showcases the composer's sense of drama, orchestral color and melody. Simon Trpčeski brings his “electrifying virtuosity” (The London Times) to Rachmaninov’s formidable Third Piano Concerto.
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CSO Program Notes: Elgar Enigma Variations
08/01/2019 Duração: 32min"In song, you have one of the most amazing diaries of any generation's culture at a given time," states Thomas Hampson. The esteemed baritone joins Bramwell Tovey for a concert of American music and songs, followed by Elgar's portraits of his own circle of friends in the Enigma Variations.
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CSO Program Notes: Handel Messiah
17/12/2018 Duração: 11minSince its premiere in 1742, Handel’s Messiah has brought audiences to their feet with its triumphant choruses and dazzling arias. Witness this glorious oratorio—performed by the combined forces of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and an exceptional cast of soloists—as part of a stirring holiday celebration.
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CSO Program Notes: The Inextinguishable Symphony
04/12/2018 Duração: 15min"Music is life, and, like life, inextinguishable" wrote Danish composer Carl Nielsen of his Fourth Symphony, written during the early years of World War I. His life-affirming composition is preceded by Strauss' poignant Four Last Songs, which has been called "the most beautifully delivered farewell in all of music."
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CSO Program Notes - Chen Leads All-Mozart
21/11/2018 Duração: 11minCSO Concertmaster Robert Chen leads his fellow orchestra members in a delightful all-Mozart program featuring some of the composer’s most popular music. Chen and CSO Principal Flute Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson will each be featured in one of the composer’s brilliant early concertos. Tickets and more info: https://cso.org/ticketsandevents/production-details-2018-19/chicago-symphony-orchestra/chen-leads-all-mozart/
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CSO Program Notes: Tchaikovksy Piano Concerto No. 1
09/11/2018 Duração: 16minDanish conductor Thomas Søndergård leads two Russian masterpieces: Rachmaninov's powerful First Symphony, imbued with heroism and pathos, and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Alexander Gavrylyuk, a pianist who "enchants with his incredible virtuosity and thought-provoking playing" (De Telegraaf), makes his CSO debut with this monumental work.
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CSO Program Notes: Barenboim Conducts Smetana Ma vlast
29/10/2018 Duração: 13minDaniel Barenboim makes his highly anticipated return to the Orchestra Hall podium. He conducts Smetana's landmark set of six symphonic poems that weave a rich tapestry celebrating the composer's native Bohemia. https://cso.org/barenboimconductssmetana
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CSO Program Notes: Haitink Conducts Bruckner & Beethoven
22/10/2018 Duração: 14min“There could be no more impressive demonstration of modern orchestral virtuosity at its committed best than the pairing of Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra” (Chicago Tribune). Former principal conductor Bernard Haitink, renowned for his transformative interpretations of symphonic masterworks with the CSO, returns to lead Bruckner’s rich, kaleidoscopic Sixth Symphony. These performances are the conductor’s only U.S. concert engagement this season. Paul Lewis, “a defining interpreter of Beethoven” (Chicago Tribune), joins forces with the orchestra and Haitink to perform the composer’s triumphant Second Piano Concerto. https://cso.org/haitinkbrucknerbeethoven
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CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Beethoven & Brahms
28/09/2018 Duração: 19minBrahms' lively Hungarian Dances are paired with Hindemith's symphony Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter), a work that explores the role of an artist in society. David Fray performs Beethoven's dramatic Third Piano Concerto.
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CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Sheherazade
21/09/2018 Duração: 13minRiccardo Muti leads two of Mozart's most popular works, followed by Rimsky-Korsakov's mesmerizing tone poem inspired by The Arabian Nights. Experience an evening of dramatic masterpieces, filled with vivid orchestral color and memorable themes that highlight Maestro Muti’s assertion that "the essence of our spirit is melody."
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CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Shostakovich Babi Yar
14/09/2018 Duração: 22min"If one function of art is to make us ponder difficult questions, there could not be a more potent example than Shostakovich's 13th" (The Guardian). Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti opens a season of reflection with Shostakovich's gripping setting of poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko condemning anti-Semitism and the barbarous acts that took place near Kiev in September 1941.