Five CSO music directors—Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodzinski, 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
Daniel Barenboim and Carlo Maria Giulini
Playlist
Mikhail Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Fritz Reiner, conductor
1959 (RCA)
Ludwig van Beethoven: “Leonore” Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
1972 (London)
Richard Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier
Fritz Reiner, conductor
1957 (RCA)
Aaron Copland: Suite from The Tender Land
Fritz Reiner, conductor
1958 (CSO: The First 100 Years)
Pietro Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
Riccardo Muti, conductor
2017 (CSO Resound)
Gioachino Rossini: Overture to William Tell
Fritz Reiner, conductor
1958 (RCA)
Richard Wagner: “The Ride of the Valkyries” from Die Walküre
Artur Rodzinski, conductor
1948 (CSO: The First 100 Years)
Richard Wagner: “Forest Murmurs” from Siegfried
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
1991 (Erato)
Richard Wagner: “Dawn”, Siegfried’s “Rhine Journey”, and Siegfried’s “Death and Funeral March” from Götterdämmerung
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
1991 (Erato)
