CSO Oct 26

October 26
Opera without Words

Five CSO music directors—Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodzinski, 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
1959 (RCA) 


Ludwig van
Beethoven

Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Sir Georg Solti conductor

1972 (London) 


Richard Strauss

Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier

Fritz Reiner conductor
1957 (RCA)

Aaron Copland

Suite from The Tender Land

Fritz Reiner conductor
1958 (CSO: The First 100 Years)


Pietro Mascagni

Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana

Riccardo Muti conductor

2017 (CSO Resound)


Gioachino Rossini

Overture to William Tell

Fritz Reiner conductor
1958 (RCA)

Richard Wagner

The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre

Artur Rodzinski conductor

1948 (CSO: The First 100 Years)

Richard Wagner

Forest Murmurs from Siegfried

Daniel Barenboim conductor
1991 (Erato)

Richard Wagner

Dawn, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, and Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung

Daniel Barenboim conductor

1991 (Erato)