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, …

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Julia Fischer performs Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto.

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

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

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

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