Guest artists making their festival debuts with the CSO will include pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, musical theater royalty Sutton Foster, violinist Himari, and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

With a characteristically star-studded lineup of conductors and soloists.

On today’s broadcast, David Afkham leads the CSO in Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, featuring soloist Vadim Gluzman, followed by Vadim Gluzman’s encore, Serenade by Valentin Silvestrov. Also included in this program are Debussy’s La Mer and two pieces by Ravel: Menuet antique and La valse. Closing out the program, Bernard Haitink conducts Webern’s Im Sommerwind.

The newly announced Pavilion upgrade launches a multi-year renovation project, all ahead of Ravinia’s 125th anniversary in 2029.

This week, Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the CSO in Ravel’s Mother Goose, Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements, and Dessner’s Violin Concerto, featuring soloist Pekka Kuusisto. Rounding out the program, Sir George Solti conducts Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

On today’s broadcast, Paavo Järvi leads the CSO in Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, followed by Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor, featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Rounding out the program is Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5.

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This week, Sir Georg Solti conducts Final Alice by David Del Tredici. The broadcast opens with Berlioz’s Overture to Les Francs-juges, continues with Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Song, and Weber’s Overture to Oberon.

The soloist’s injury continues to affect scheduled fall concerts.

For more than a century, artists from all over the world have chosen to give their first performances in the Second City.

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 …

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra kicks off its 88th summer season at Ravinia with Chief Conductor Marin Alsop in a festive evening of all-American music.

We celebrate the CSO’s most recent Grammy Award–winning recording, Contemporary American Composers, released on CSO Resound. The broadcast features Glass’ Eleventh Symphony, plus world premiere recordings by Jessie Montgomery and Max Raimi. The broadcast opens with another legendary Grammy winner: Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra under the baton of Fritz Reiner.

The hammer drops on Mahler’s Symphony No. 6! Jaap van Zweden conducts the symphony, which features fateful march rhythms, bittersweet lullabies, and a series of thunderous hammer blows.

Lahav Shani makes his CSO debut in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. Included in the program is Prokofiev’s Symphony No.1 and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini featuring Beatrice Rana.

Osmo Vänskä leads the CSO in Orff’s Carmina burana featuring Joélle Harvey, Reginald Mobley and Hugh Russell. Plus a Seiji Ozawa-conducted performance of Britten’s Young Person’s Guide.

An all-Beethoven program from the CSO’s Archives.

Summer arts riches — from open air concerts to music legends passing through our great city.

Two composers with strong Chicago ties…

This week, Riccardo Muti conducts Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita), highlighting a dozen members of the orchestra’s wind section. Opening the program is Cimarosa’s Overture to Il matrimonio segreto. In between, Concertmaster Robert Chen joins in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major.