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Hear live performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra alongside selections from the orchestra’s expansive catalog of recordings. Find out the fascinating stories found inside the music; get insights from the CSO musicians, guest artists, and composers themselves; and learn more about the music and programmatic themes highlighted during the CSO’s concert season. Hosted by Lisa Simeone.
Schedule
January 19
Mälkki, Liebermann & Mahler 4This 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 269th birthday with Daniel Barenboim conducting the Overture to The Marriage of Figaro.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1979 (Deutsche Gammophon)Richard Wagner
Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin
Lowell Liebermann
Flute Concerto No. 2, Op. 142
Claude Debussy
Syrinx
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson fluteGustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Susanna Mälkki conductor
Ying Fang Soprano
March 2024
January 26
Hannu Lintu & Ray ChenHannu 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.
Carl Nielsen
Helios Overture, Op. 17
February 2020Magnus Lindberg
Serenades
Édouard Lalo
Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
December 2021