Celebrating the 150th birthday of second music director Frederick Stock! The broadcast opens with Stock leading the Orchestra’s first commercial recording made in 1916: Mendelssohn‘s Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Next, we hear recordings of works that Stock and the Orchestra introduced to the United States: Bartók‘s Second Piano Concerto, Elgar‘s Violin Concerto, and Scriabin’s Prometheus. To conclude the celebration, Stock conducts his own arrangement of Paganini’s virtuosic Moto perpetuo.
Frederick Stock at 150
Frederick Stock in Orchestra Hall ca. 1930 (Photo: Jun Fujita from the collections of the Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Playlist
Mendelssohn: Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
Frederick Stock, conductor
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2
Maurizio Pollini, piano; Claudio Abbado, conductor
Elgar: Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61
Itzhak Perlman, violin; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Scriabin: Prometheus, Op. 60
Anatol Ugorski, piano; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director; Pierre Boulez, conductor
Paganini/Stock: Moto perpetuo, Op. 11
Frederick Stock, conductor