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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
  • June 29
    Sokhiev & Avdeeva

    This week, guest conductor Tugan Sokhiev conducts the CSO in Tchaikovsky’s Winter Dreams Symphony. Opening the program is Panufnik’s Heroic Overture, followed by Chopin’s first Piano Concerto, featuring Yulianna Avdeeva.

    Andrzej Panfunik

    Heroic Overture


    Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11
    Yulianna Avdeeva piano


    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13 (Winter Dreams)
    Tugan Sokhiev conductor


    Richard Wagner

    Prelude to Tristan and Isolde

    Daniel Barenboim conductor

  • July 6
    Salonen & Apkalna

    This week, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts his own composition, Sinfonia Concertante for Organ and Orchestra, with soloist Iveta Apkalna. The program also includes Richard Strauss’ Don Juan and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. Opening the broadcast, Pierre Boulez leads Stravinsky’s Four Studies for Orchestra.

    Igor Stravinsky

    Four Studies for Orchestra
    Pierre Boulez conductor

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    Richard Strauss

    Don Juan, Op. 20

    Esa-Pekka Salonen

    Sinfonia Concertante for Organ and Orchestra

    Aivars Kalejs

    Toccata on the Chorale “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr”
    Iveta Apkalna organ
    ENCORE

    Béla Bartók

    Concerto for Orchestra
    Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor

  • July 13
    Composers’ Early Successes

    Most of the music on this program was written by teenagers: Mendelssohn was seventeen years old when he composed his Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rachmaninov completed his First Piano Concerto, and Strauss his First Horn Concerto at age eighteen, and nineteen-year-old Shostakovich submitted his First Symphony as a graduation exercise from the Petrograd Conservatory. The overture to Rienzi, early triumph for Wagner, complete the program.

    Richard Wagner

    Overture to Rienzi
    Daniel Barenboim conductor

    Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11
    Dale Clevenger horn
    Daniel Barenboim conductor

    Igor Stravinsky

    Fireworks, Op. 4
    Pierre Boulez conductor

    Sergei Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1
    Byron Janis piano
    Fritz Reiner conductor

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21
    Jean Martinon conductor

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10
    Leonard Bernstein conductor

  • July 20
    Solti Conducts Beethoven and Liszt

    This week, we hear two Grammy Award-winning recordings of Sir Georg Solti and the CSO. Opening the broadcast is Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring Vladimir Ashkenazy. Next, we hear Liszt’s A Faust Symphony, featuring vocal soloist Siegfried Jerusalem and the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19
    Vladimir Ashkenazy piano
    Sir Georg Solti conductor


    Franz Liszt

    A Faust Symphony
    Siegfried Jerusalem tenor
    Margaret Hillis director, Chicago Symphony Chorus
    Sir Georg Solti conductor