BP Chicago Symphony Radio Broadcasts

Hailed as the number one US Orchestra in the world by the venerable British publication
Gramophone, BP Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast Series continues this
season with more concerts from Symphony Center, the home of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra.

Hosted by Lisa Simeone and produced by Marty Ronish, this weekly, two-hour series offers
a unique format of engaging and lively content, including produced segments created to
provide deeper insight into the music and programmatic themes found within the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra's concert season; interviews with CSO musicians, guest artists, and
composers; and an exploration of the stories found within the CSO's rich heritage of
recordings and the Orchestra's illustrious history in Chicago.

Each radio broadcast highlights the many programs and events at Symphony Center,
encouraging listeners to visit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Web site, additional
content, including full-length interviews and the Orchestra's weekly program notes. 
These broadcasts also support the CSO's new record label, CSO Resound, with programs
timed to coincide with the release of each new recording. 

Broadcast Schedule

Program #:   CSO 09-01
Release date:  January 2, 2009
Nicholas McGegan conducts a program from November 2008.
Purcell:        Suite from King Arthur
Hummel:      Piano Concerto in A Minor (Stewart Goodyear, piano)
Handel:        Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6
Mozart:        Symphony No. 33 in B-Flat Major, K. 319
Hummel:      Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major (Mark Ridenour, trumpet)

Program #:   CSO 09-02
Release date:   January 9, 2009
This retrospective features violinist Cho-Liang Lin playing Bruch. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble join the CSO for music by Zhou Long.
Bruch:         Scottish Fantasy (Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Leonard Slatkin, conductor)
Zhou Long:  Poems from Tang: Song of Eight Unruly Tipsy Poets (Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor)
Bruch:         Violin Concerto No. 1 (Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Leonard Slatkin, conductor)
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastoral (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)

Program #:   CSO 09-03
Release date:   January 16, 2009
Manfred Honeck guest conducts the CSO in concerts from 2005 and 2008.
Saint-Saens:  Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (John Sharp, cello)
Strauss:         Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Brahms:         Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

Program #:   CSO 09-04
Release date:   January 23, 2009
Myung-Whun Chung conducts an all-French concert, plus a work by Bartók, led by Pierre Boulez.
Bartók:        Four Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 12 (Pierre Boulez, conductor)
Prokofiev:    Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Messiaen:    L'Ascension
Ravel:         Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe

Program#:   CSO 09-05
Release date:   January 30, 2009
A return to the CSO by conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen for the CSO premiere of his Piano Concerto.
Berio:          Four Original Versions of Luigi Boccherini's Ritirata notturna di Madrid
Salonen:      Piano Concerto (Yefim Bronfman, piano)
Mozart:        Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-Flat Major, K. 495 (Daniel Gingrich, horn)
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

Program #:   CSO 09-06
Release date:   February 6, 2009
A retrospective from our commercial archive by the CSO and the Chicago Symphony Chorus, under the direction of Margaret Hillis.
Verdi:        Gloria all'Egitto from Aïda (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
Verdi:        Va, pensiero from Nabucco (Sir Georg, Solti, conductor)
Debussy:   Nocturnes for Orchestra (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
Brahms:    A German Requiem, Op. 45 (James Levine, conductor)

Program #:   CSO 09-07
Release date:   February 13, 2009
Leonard Slatkin conducts a program from June 2008, featuring violist Pinchas Zukerman.
Tchaikovsky:  Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48 (Pinchas Zukerman, conductor)
Hindemith:     Overture to Neues vom Tage
Hindemith:     Trauermusik (Pinchas Zukerman, viola)
Friedman:      Sacred Heart: Explosion
Berlioz:         Harold in Italy (Pinchas Zukerman, viola)

Program #:   CSO 09-08
Release date:   February 20, 2009
Lorin Maazel conducts a program that includes a Chicago premiere by Augusta Read Thomas.
Shostakovich:  Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 107 (John Sharp, cello)
Thomas:         Gathering Paradise, Emily Dickinson Settings (Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano)
Sibelius:         Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39
Rossini:          William Tell Overture (Charles Dutoit, conductor)

Program #:   CSO 09-09
Release date:   February 27, 2009
Charles Dutoit conducts this concert, as well as the accompanying multi-media production of Beyond the Score: Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
Sibelius:         Finlandia
Chopin:          Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 (Lang Lang, piano)
Mussorgsky:   Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Program #:   CSO 09-10
Release date:   March 6, 2009
James Levine leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a retrospective that features the complete incidental music to Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Schubert:       Overture and Ballet Music from Rosamunde
Bartók:          Concerto for Orchestra
Mendelssohn:  A Midsummer Night's Dream, Incidental Music

Program #:   CSO 09-11
Release date:   March 13, 2009
An all-American program which includes rarely-heard works by Copland and Bernstein.
Copland:     Old American Songs (Kevin Deas, bass-baritone; Alan Gilbert, conductor)
Adams:       Century Rolls (Olli Mustonen, piano; David Robertson, conductor)
Bernstein:   Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah (David Robertson, conductor)
Dvorak:      Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, From the New World (David Robertson, conductor)

Program #:   CSO 09-12
Release date:   March 20, 2009
The CSO goes Beyond the Score to explore Gustav Holst's The Planets, in a program conducted by Charles Dutoit.
Haydn:     Symphony No. 85 in B-Flat Major, La Reine
Ravel:      Pavane for a Dead Princess
Debussy:  Nocturnes
Holst:       The Planets, Op. 32

Program #:   CSO 09-13
Release date:   March 27, 2009
Two major works in the repertoire: Helmut Rilling conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Mozart's Requiem, and Daniel Barenboim conducts Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.
Mozart:        Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Helmut Rilling, conductor)
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)

Program #:   CSO 09-13
Release date:  March 27, 2009
Two major works in the repertoire: Helmut Rilling conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Mozart's Requiem, and Daniel Barenboim conducts Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.
Mozart:        Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Helmut Rilling, conductor)
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)

Program #:   CSO 09-14
Release date:   April 3, 2009
Michael Tilson Thomas opens a CSO concert from October 2008 with his own Street Song for Symphonic Brass.  Symphonies by Sibelius and Shostakovich complete an all-twentieth-century program.
Tilson Thomas:  Street Song for Symphonic Brass
Sibelius:           Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63
Shostakovich:   Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47

Program #:   CSO 09-15
Release date:   April 10, 2009
From the archive of commercial recordings, Sir Georg Solti leads the CSO and Chorus in Part I of Haydn's Oratorio The Creation, and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Vladimir Ashkenazy.  And Solti's predecessor, Jean Martinon conducts Nielsen's Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable.
Beethoven:  Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano; Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
Haydn:        The Creation, Part I (Ruth Ziesak, soprano; Herbert Lippert, tenor; René Pape, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Margaret Hillis, director; Sir Georg  Solti, conductor)
Nielsen:      Symphony No. 4, Op. 29, The Inextinguishable (Jean Martinon, conductor)

Program #:   CSO 09-16
Release date:   April 17, 2009
Neeme Järvi conducts the CSO's first-ever performance of the Symphony No. 4 by Sergei Taneyev.  Pianist Yefim Bronfman opens this concert from October 2008 with Rachmaninov's powerful Piano Concerto No. 3, and the broadcast finishes with soloist Håkan Hardenberger in the trumpet concerto Aerial by Austrian composer H. K. Gruber. 
 Rachmaninov:  Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 (Yefim Bronfman, piano)
Taneyev:          Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 12
Gruber:            Aerial (Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet; David Zinman, conductor)

Program #:   CSO 09-17
Release date:   April 24, 2009
Peruvian conductor and curator Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the CSO in a musical journey along the "Inca Trail," featuring old and new works from his native country.  Jessica Warren-Acosta plays Andean flutes.
Alomía Robles:  El cóndor pasa
Martínez y
 Compañón:     Colección de música virreinal
Luzuriaga:        Responsorio
Frank:              Illapa  
Golijov:            Mariel for Cello and Orchestra (Kenneth Olson, cello)
Soro:               Tres Aires Chilenos
López:             Fiesta!
Nielsen:           Symphony No. 5 (Paavo Jarvi, conductor)

Program #:   CSO 09-18
Release date:   May 1, 2009
The CSO performs Russian music: Valery Gergiev conducts a suite from Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, with violinist Vadim Repin. Leonard Slatkin leads the orchestra in the Symphony No. 6 by Shostakovich.   
Debussy:          Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
Prokofiev:         Violin Concerto No.1 in D Major, Op. 19 (Vadim Repin, violin)
Stravinsky:       Suite from The Firebird
Shostakovich:   Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54

Program #:   CSO 09-19
Release date:   May 8, 2009
Bernard Haitink is the Principal Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  His residency in Chicago in December 2008 included performances of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony and the Symphony No. 7 by Bruckner.
Mozart:       Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, Jupiter
Bruckner:   Symphony No. 7 in E Major

Program #:   CSO 09-20
Release date:   May 15, 2009
Fritz Reiner leads the CSO in a retrospective program featuring the autobiographical Domestic Symphony by Richard Strauss and Mahler's luminous Fourth Symphony. 
Weinberger:  Polka and Fugue from Schwanda, the Bagpiper
R. Strauss:    Domestic Symphony, Op. 53
Mahler:         Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Lisa Della Casa, soprano)

Program #:   CSO 09-21
Release date:   May 22, 2009
Former Music Director Daniel Barenboim finished his tenure with the orchestra in 2006. 
From that final season, he conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 5 and a Mozart piano concerto with soloist Alfred Brendel.
Mozart:   Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 (Alfred Brendel, piano)
Mahler:   Symphony No. 5

Program #:   CSO 09-22
Release date:   May 29, 2009
The Poulenc Gloria is newly released on the CSO ReSound label. The remainder of the broadcast comes from the Chicago performance of the CSO's European tour repertoire, with Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Murray Perahia. 
Haydn:          Symphony No. 44 in E Minor
Lutoslawski:   Symphony No. 4
Beethoven:    Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (Murray Perahia, piano)
Poulenc:        Gloria (Jessica Rivera, soprano; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolf, director)

Program #:   CSO 09-23
Release date:   June 5, 2009
Ludovic Morlot is a young French conductor who led this all-Russian program in November 2008, and to fill out the broadcast is Morlot's performance of the Rosenkavalier Waltzes by Richard Strauss from 2007.
Glinka:   Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla
Rachmaninov:  Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44
Tchaikovsky:   Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 (Simon Trpceski, piano)
Glishic:            Prelude and Pajduska (Simon Trpceski, piano)
R. Strauss:      Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier

Program #:   CSO 09-24
Release date:   June 12, 2009
A retrospective celebrating this month's Dvorák festival in Chicago, including Dvorák's Symphony No. 8, and works by his Czech compatriots, Kodály and Janánek.
Dvorák:   Carnival Overture (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
Dvorák:   Silent Woods (Jacqueline du Pre, cello; Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
Dvorák:   Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 (Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor)
Kodály:   Peacock Variations (Neeme Järvi, conductor)
Janánek:   Sinfonietta (Seiji Ozawa, conductor)

Program #:   CSO 09-25
Release date:   June 19, 2009
Gustavo Dudamel returned to Chicago in January 2009 for a concert with pianist Stephen Hough performing the Piano Concerto No. 21 by Mozart.  And from a special concert in the same week, Yo-Yo Ma performs Osvaldo Golijov's Azul for Cello and Orchestra, with hyper-accordion and percussion.
Barber:    Adagio
Mozart:    Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 (Stephen Hough, piano)
Brahms:  Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
Golijov:   Azul (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)

Program #:   CSO 09-26
Release date:   June 26, 2009
Daniel Barenboim joins pianist Radu Lupu at the keyboard  in Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos.  Plus Schoenberg's early symphonic poem, Pelléas and Mélisande.
Mozart:          Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 266 (Radu Lupu, piano)
Schoenberg:   Pelléas and Mélisande, Op. 5
Mozart:          Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat Major, K. 365 (Radu Lupu, Daniel Barenboim, pianos)