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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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Mälkki, Liebermann & Mahler 4
This week, guest conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the world-premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s Flute Concerto No. 2, a CSO-commissioned work featuring Principal Flute Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson. Opening the program is Wagner’s Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin, and closing the program is Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major, featuring soprano Ying Fang. To open the broadcast, we celebrate Mozart’s upcoming ...
Hannu Lintu & Ray Chen
Hannu Lintu returns to lead Brahms’ Fourth Symphony, Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra featuring Ray Chen, and the world premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Serenades, a work co-commissioned by the CSO. The broadcast opens with Nielsen’s Helios Overture from Lintu’s debut with the CSO in February 2020.
