Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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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 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 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 flute

    Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 4 in G Major
    Susanna Mälkki conductor
    Ying Fang Soprano
    March 2024

  • January 26
    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.

    Carl Nielsen

    Helios Overture, Op. 17
    February 2020

    Magnus Lindberg

    Serenades

    Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21

    Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
    December 2021