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The Chicago Symphony presents a full range of orchestral works under the seasoned baton of music director emeritus for life Riccardo Muti. The top-tier soloists and guest conductors complete the series with artists like Yo-Yo Ma, Hilary Hahn, and Daniil Trifonov; as well as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mitsuko Uchida, and Bernard Haitink. The two-hour Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcasts include dynamic and innovative commentary which takes the listener behind the scenes and into the music.
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Afkham & Gluzman
David Afkham returns to the CSO podium to lead Debussy’s La mer and Ravel’s La valse. Opening the program is Ravel’s Menuet antique. Next, Vadim Gluzman joins in Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Plus, Bernard Haitink conducts Webern’s Im Sommerwind.
Opera without Words
Five CSO music directors—Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodziński, 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.
Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9
This week, Jakub Hrůša conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 9. The broadcast opens with Shaw’s Boris Kerner, performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s second flutist Emma Gerstein and assistant principal cellist Kenneth Olsen, and Hailstork’s Arabesques, also performed by Emma Gerstein with principal percussionist Cynthia Yeh.
