This broadcast celebrates Frederick Stock! The CSO’s second music director opens the program with the ensemble’s first commercial recording —Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream—and closes with his own arrangement of Paganini’s Moto perpetuo. The other works included all received their U.S. premieres under Stock’s baton: Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto, Elgar’s Violin Concerto, and Scriabin’s Prometheus, in recordings featuring Maurizio Pollini, Itzhak Perlman, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, and Pierre Boulez.
Celebrating Frederick Stock
Frederick Stock in Orchestra Hall ca. 1930 (Photo: Jun Fujita from the collections of the Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Playlist
Felix Mendelssohn: “Wedding March” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
Frederick Stock, conductor
1916 (Columbia)
Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Claudio Abbado, conductor
1977 (Deutsche Grammophone)
Edward Elgar: Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Alexander Scriabin: Prometheus, Op. 60
Anatol Ugorski, piano
Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director
Pierre Boulez, conductor
1996 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Niccolò Paganini: Moto perpetuo, Op. 11 (arr. Stock)
Frederick Stock, conductor
1941 (Columbia)
