Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti conducts the world premiere of Transfigured to Grace, the CSO commissioned work by former Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery. Wagner’s Overture to Tannhäuser and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 bookend the program. Rounding out the broadcast, we hear the U.S. premiere of Coleridge-Taylor’s Solemn Prelude from 2022 Symphony Ball concert.
Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninoff 2

Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Photo: Todd Rosenberg)
Playlist
Richard Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
Jessie Montgomery: Transfigure to Grace
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Riccardo Muti conductor
May 2023
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Solemn Prelude
Riccardo Muti conductor
April 2022