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 & 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
Daniil Trifonov, piano; Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
Pyotr Tchaikovsky/Pletnev: “Vision” from The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66
Daniil Trifonov, piano; Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
Pierre Boulez: Initiale for Brass Septet
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, 70
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor