This week, we take a look back at Grammy-winning performances by the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Music directors Daniel Barenboim and Sir Georg Solti conduct Bruckner’s Psalm 150 and Brahms’s A German Requiem. Former principal guest conductor Pierre Boulez conducts Bartók’s Cantata profana.
A Chicago Symphony Chorus Spotlight
Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello in a Saturday matinee broadcast on February 9, 1974 (Photo: Metropolitan Opera Archives)
Playlist
Anton Bruckner: Psalm 150
Ruth Welting, soprano; Margaret Hillis director, Chicago Symphony Chorus; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
1979 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Béla Bartók: Cantata profana
John Aler, tenor; John Tomlinson, baritone; Margaret Hillis, director; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Pierre Boulez, conductor
1991 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Bernd Weikl, baritone; Margaret Hillis, director; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Sir Georg Solti, conductor
1978 (London)