This week, Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä leads the CSO in Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony and Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto featuring Daniil Trifonov. Two historic RCA recordings open the broadcast: Dvořák’s Carnival Overture and Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess, both under sixth music director Fritz Reiner.
Mäkelä and Trifonov
CSO Artist-in-Residence Daniil Trifonov performing Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Klaus Mäkelä and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in May 2025. (Photo: Todd Rosenberg Photography)
Playlist
Antonín Dvořák: Carnival Overture, Op.92
Fritz Reiner, conductor
1956 (RCA)
Maurice Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
Fritz Reiner, conductor
1957 (RCA)
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor; Daniil Trifonov, piano
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Arr. Pletnev ): Vision from The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66
Pierre Boulez: Initiale for Brass Septet
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
