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
Margaret Hills chorus director, Fritz Reiner music director, and Walter Hendl associate conductor onstage with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in March 1959 (Oscar Chicago photo)
Playlist
Anton Bruckner: Psalm 150
Ruth Welting, soprano
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
1979
Béla Bartók: Cantata profana
John Aler, tenor; John Tomlinson, baritone
Pierre Boulez, conductor
1991
Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Bernd Weikl, baritone
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
1978 (London)
