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Hear live performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra every week
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.
News: Meet the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's New Music Director
CSO Names Klaus Mäkelä as Music Director
Composers’ Early Successes
Most of the music on this program was written by teenagers: Mendelssohn was seventeen years old when he composed his overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rachmaninoff completed his first piano concerto, and Strauss his first horn concerto at age eighteen, and nineteen-year-old Shostakovich submitted his first symphony as a graduation exercise from the Petrograd Conservatory. The overture to Rienzi, ...
Solti Conducts Beethoven and Liszt
This week, we hear two Grammy Award-winning recordings of Sir Georg Solti and the CSO. Opening the broadcast is Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring Vladimir Ashkenazy. Next, we hear Liszt’s A Faust Symphony, featuring vocal soloist Siegfried Jerusalem and the Chicago Symphony Chorus.
