Newly announced CSO music director-designate Klaus Mäkelä returns to the podium to lead Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. The program includes Jean Sibelius’ The Swan of Tuonela, and the U.S. premiere of Aino by Jimmy López Bellido, which the CSO’s co-commissioned. The opening of the broadcast is John Corigliano’s Tournaments Overture under Sir Georg Solti’s baton.

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Playlist

John Corigliano: Tournaments Overture
Sir Georg Solti, conductor

Jean Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela from Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op. 22
Scott Hostetler, English horn; Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

Jimmy López Bellido: Aino (US Premiere, CSO Co-commission)
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor