Celebrating Women’s History Month

March 9, 2025, 8:00 pm

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Composer Shulamit Ran
Composer Shulamit Ran

This week, we celebrate women in composition and performance. Violinist Kyung-Wha Chung performs Berg’s Violin Concerto, led by Sir Georg Solti. Cellist Jacqueline Du Pré has the spotlight in Dvořák’s Silent Woods, led by Daniel Barenboim, who also conducts Ran’s Legends. The program also includes Pierre Boulez conducting Augusta Read Thomas’s … words of the sea… and Sir Georg Solti leading Strauss’ Four Last Songs, featuring soprano Lucia Popp. To open the broadcast, Riccardo Muti and the CSO present Jessie Montgomery’s Hymn for Everyone.

Playlist


Jessie Montgomery: Hymn for Everyone

Riccardo Muti, conductor
2023 (CSO Resound)

Alban Berg: Violin Concerto
Sir Georg Solti, conductor; Kyung-Wha Chung violin
1983 (London)

Shulamit Ran: Legends
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
1993 (Albany)

Antonín Dvořák: Silent Woods
Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Jacqueline Du Pré cello
1970 (Angel)

Augusta Read Thomas: … words of the sea…
Pierre Boulez, conductor
1996 (ARTCD)

Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
Sir Georg Solti, conductor; Lucia Popp, soprano
1977 (Decca)