A frequent guest to Chicago since 1985, Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi celebrates his eighty-fourth birthday on June 7. He has recorded a variety of works with the CSO on the Chandos label, including Hindemith’s Concerto for Orchestra, Kodály’s Peacock Variations, Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy, and Schmidt’s rarely performed Second Symphony.
Celebrating Neeme Järvi
Neeme Järvi (photo by Simon van Boxtel)
Playlist
Concerto for Orchestra, by Paul Hindemith
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Järvi, conductor
Variations on a Hungarian Folksong (The Peacock), by Zoltan Kodály
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Järvi, conductor
Symphony 2 in E-flat Major, by Franz Schmidt
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Järvi, conductor
The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54, by Alexander Scriabin
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Järvi, conductor
