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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
  • September 8
    Guerrero & Binelli

    Giancarlo Guerrero leads Piazzolla’s Aconcagua Concerto for Bandoneón and Orchestra with Daniel Binelli, followed by Beethoven’s First Symphony. The broadcast closes with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony under the baton of eighth music director Sir Georg Solti.

    Conductor

    Giancarlo Guerrero

    Dieterich Buxtehude
    (arr. & orch. Chávez)

    Chaconne in E Minor

    Astor Piazzolla

    Aconcagua Concerto for Bandoneón and Orchestra
    Daniel Binelli, bandoneón

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21

    Pyotr Ilyich
    Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
    Sir Georg Solti, conductor

  • September 15
    Mäkelä Conducts Shostakovich 10

    Sol Gabetta, whose “enthusiastic music-making and animated style are completely infectious” (Classical Voice), makes her CSO debut in Shostakovich’s captivating Cello Concerto No. 1 — a riveting journey through themes of defiance, sorrow, and triumph. Electrifying conductor Klaus Mäkelä frames the program with Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, a searing portrait of the composer’s tormented life in Stalinist Russia, and the U.S. premiere of Sauli Zinovjev’s vibrant Batteria.

    Conductor

    Klaus Mäkelä

    Richard Strauss

    Excerpt from Don Juan, Op. 20
    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    Sauli Zinovjev

    Batteria
    U.S. Premiere

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 107
    Sol Gabetta, cello

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93

  • September 22
    de Ridder & Barnatan

    André de Ridder leads the CSO in a suite from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, along with Rhapsody in Blue and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major with Inon Barnatan. Next, seventh music director Jean Martinon conducts selections from Bizet’s L’arlésienne and second music director Frederick Stock’s arrangement of Paganini’s Moto perpetuo.

    Conductor

    André de Ridder

    George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess, A Symphonic Picture

    George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue
    Inon Barnatan, piano

    Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G Major
    Inon Barnatan, piano

    Georges Bizet

    Suites Nos. 1 and 2 from L’arlésienne
    Jean Martinon, conductor

    Niccolò
    Paganini/Stock

    Moto perpetuo, Op. 11
    Jean Martinon, conductor