The Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebrates Women’s History Month with a broadcast featuring iconic soloists: violinist Kyung Wha Chung, cellist Jacqueline du Pré, soprano Lucia Popp, and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. Works by two former composers-in-residence—Augusta Read Thomas’s . . . words of the sea . . . and Shulamit Ran’s Legends—round out this program.
Celebrating Women’s History Month
Lucia Popp and Sir Georg Solti (Photo by Christina Burton)
Playlist
Violin Concerto, by Alban Berg
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti, conductor; Kyung Wha Chung, violin
Legends, by Shulamit Ran
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
D’amour l’ardente flame from The Damnation of Faust, Op. 24, by Hector Berlioz
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti, conductor; Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
. . . words of the sea . . ., by Augusta Read Thomas
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor
Silent Woods, by Antonín Dvořák
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Jacqueline du Pré, cello
Four Last Songs, by Richard Strauss
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti, conductor; Lucia Popp, soprano
