Muti & the CSO

This week, Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti leads the world premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Megalopolis Suite, commissioned by the CSO. The program also includes Donizetti’s Overture to Don Pasquale, Verdi’s “The Four Seasons” from I vespri siciliani, Chabrier’s España, and Maurice de Falla’s Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat. Rounding out the broadcast, Lei Hou, Qing Hou, …

CSO Assistant Principal Trumpet Mark Ridenour to Retire After 31 Years

Appointed by Daniel Barenboim in 1994, Ridenour’s final performances with the orchestra will take place this weekend, as the CSO performs Verdi’s Requiem with music director emeritus for life Riccardo Muti.

CSO Unveils ’25-26 Season, New Artist-in-Residence

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

New Year’s Concert 2025 with Riccardo Muti (Encore Broadcast)

An encore presentation of the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s tradition.

New Year’s Concert 2025 with Riccardo Muti

The famed Vienna Philharmonic offers “a greeting of hope, friendship, and peace” in its annual New Year’s Day concert, broadcast live around the world.

Muti Conducts

Haydn’s glorious Te Deum opens the program, with Richard Strauss’s Aus Italien concluding. The program’s centerpiece, Franz Schubert’s Second Mass, features vocalists Siobhan Stagg, Julian Prégardien, and Vito Priante.

Holiday Programming on WFMT 2024

The winter holidays are right around the corner, and WFMT has a feast of musical offerings to make the season bright!

Waldbühne I: Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic

Situated in a wooded area just outside Berlin, the Waldbühne is one of Europe’s largest and most popular open-air concert venues.

Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninoff

Composer Jessie Montgomery wrote Transfigure to Grace after reflecting on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to America. Riccardo Muti conducts its world premiere, plus music by Rachmaninoff and Wagner.

Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita

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.

Muti Conducts Beethoven

Riccardo Muti conducts three of Beethoven’s works, beginning with his Coriolan Overture and followed by his eighth and fifth symphonies. Plus, the CSO Brass performs Barber’s Mutations from Bach, selections from Bach’s The Art of Fugue and Michael Tilson Thomas’s Street Song.

CSO Names Klaus Mäkelä as Music Director

The new music director designate is just 28 years old. He’ll be the youngest in orchestra history when he takes the baton.

Italy marks 80th anniversary of WWII-era massacre in Rome with a concert honoring the dead

Riccardo Muti conducted the Italian premiere of William Schuman’s Ninth Symphony, which the composer wrote after visiting the site of a 1944 massacre in Rome.

Esa-Pekka Salonen to leave San Francisco Symphony, citing dispute with orchestra’s board

“I do not share the same goals for the future of the institution as the board of governors does,” Salonen said in a statement.

CSO Announces 2024–25 Season and New Artist-In-Residence

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced its 2024–2025 season, a full year of concerts in its mainstage subscription series, as well as chamber, solo, family, and other programming.

Follow Live: Grammy 2024 Winners

Follow live on Sunday, February 4, as music’s biggest awards are given out!

CSO Cellist David Sanders to retire after nearly 50 years

Sanders was the last active member of the legendary Frank Miller-helmed CSO cello section.

Muti Conducts Mozart & Prokofiev

Plus the overture to Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims.

Muti, Glass & Mendelssohn

Join Riccardo Muti and the CSO for a sensuous journey to Italy.

Grammy 2024 Nominees Announced

Peruse the hopefuls for classical, jazz, soundtrack, and more!

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Muti & Fischer

Julia Fischer performs Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto.

Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita

Plus Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major.

Muti Conducts Beethoven & Price

The program begins with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont and Fourth Symphony, followed by Still’s Mother and Child and Price’s Third Symphony.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians get 3% annual raises in 3-year labor contract

Music director emeritus for life Riccardo Muti will lead the CSO season-opening concert September 21 at Orchestra Hall.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, musicians union agree to 3-year contract

CSO musicians struck for two days in September 2012 and for seven weeks March and April of 2019.

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