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Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Sundays at 8pm
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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
  • December 15
    Reiner Rarities

    This broadcast celebrates the CSO’s sixth music director Fritz Reiner! Starting out the broadcast is Kabalevsky’s Colas Breugnon Overture, followed by Haydn’s Symphony No. 88. Next on the program are Weinberger’s Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper and Liebermann’s Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra. Concluding the broadcast, Lisa Della Casa joins in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4.

    Dmitry Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon Overture

    Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 88 in G Major

    Jaromír Weinberger

    Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper

    Rolf Liebermann

    Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra
    Sauter-Finegan Orchestra

    Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 4 in G Major
    Lisa Della Casa, soprano

  • December 22
    Blomstedt Conducts Dvorak 8

    This week, Herbert Blomstedt leads Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 and Cello Concerto, featuring Romanian cellist Andrei Ioniţă. Plus, hear the 1959 RCA recordings of Respighi’s Fountains of Rome and Johann Strauss, Jr.’s Thunder and Lightning Polka, led by Fritz Reiner.

    Antonín Dvořák

    Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104
    Andrei Ioniță, cello

    Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    Ottorino Respighi

    Fountains of Rome

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Thunder and Lightning Polka, Op. 324
    Fritz Reiner, conductor