Five CSO music directors—Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodziński, and Sir Georg Solti—lead orchestral excerpts from operas by Beethoven, Copland, Mascagni, Rossini, and Strauss. The program closes with several selections from Wagner’s Ring cycle.
Opera without Words
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Playlist
Mikhail Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven: “Leonore” Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Richard Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Aaron Copland: Suite from The Tender Land
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Pietro Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Gioachino Rossini: Overture to William Tell
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Richard Wagner: “The Ride of the Valkyries” from Die Walküre
Artur Rodziński, conductor
Richard Wagner: “Forest Murmurs” from Siegfried
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Richard Wagner: Excerpts from from Götterdämmerung
“Dawn”
“Siegfried’s Rhine Journey”
“Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March”
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
