Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a stirring performance of Mozart’s Requiem followed by William Schuman’s Symphony No. 9 (Le fosse Ardeatine), in memory of a WWII massacre in the Ardeatine caves on the outskirts of Rome. Cherubini’s Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn opens the program.
Muti Conducts Mozart Requiem
Riccardo Muti Conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Photo: Todd Rosenberg Photography)
Playlist
Cherubini: Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn
Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano; Dmitry Korchak, tenor; Enea Scala, tenor
Schuman: Symphony No. 9 (Le fosse Ardeatine)
Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
Benedetta Torre, soprano; Sara Mingardo, contralto; Saimir Pirgu, tenor; Mika Kares, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus: Duain Wolfe, director