October 20
Opera without Words
Five CSO music directors—Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodziński, and Sir Georg Solti—lead orchestral excerpts from operas by Beethoven, Copland, Mascagni, Rossini, and Strauss. The program closes with several selections from Wagner’s Ring cycle.
Mikhail Glinka
Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Richard Strauss
Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Aaron Copland
Suite from The Tender Land
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Pietro Mascagni
Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Gioachino Rossini
Overture to William Tell
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Richard Wagner
The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre
Artur Rodziński, conductor
Richard Wagner
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Richard Wagner
Dawn, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, and Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Daniel Barenboim, conductor