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Join us this year for Riccardo Muti’s final season as CSO Zell Music Director, which pays tribute to his remarkable bond with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and celebrates the communicative power of his musicmaking that has excited Chicago audiences over these past 13 years. This season, the CSO will perform key works from Muti’s Chicago years, including Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, which capped his first concert with the Orchestra 50 years ago next summer; Respighi’s Pines of Rome, the dazzling finale of his first concert as music director, in Millennium Park in 2010, and, together with the world-renowned Chicago Symphony Chorus, the maestro’s first Chicago performances of Beethoven’s sublime Missa solemnis, a towering work of sacred vocal expression and a testament to the very soul and spirit of music. Muti’s concerts combine classics with new discoveries and reunite him with longtime colleagues and friends, highlighting pianist Yefim Bronfman, violinist Julia Fischer and pianist Maurizio Pollini, who is making his first appearance with the Orchestra in a decade. Continuing his annual tradition of showcasing the Orchestra’s outstanding musicianship, Muti joins Concertmaster Robert Chen in Mozart, longtime Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny in the concerto Lalo Schifrin wrote with him in mind, and David Herbert, one of Muti’s earliest principal appointments, in William Kraft’s First Timpani Concerto.
With these unmissable programs, Riccardo Muti concludes one of the most extraordinary chapters in our Orchestra’s history. Guarantee your seats at the best prices of the season by subscribing today.
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“Culture affects our soul, our mind and the interrelationship between people… We are here to give you emotions, to give you the sound of beauty, of harmony — that sound that the world is forgetting. So, I am so happy to see all of you in this historic hall, in front of an orchestra that is more than 130 years old, that has given beauty and music and enrichment to many generations. “
RICCARDO MUTI, ZELL MUSIC DIRECTOR CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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CSO Evenings
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Tuesday A |
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Vivaldi Gloria Experience the uplifting power of Antonio Vivaldi’s joyous Gloria, with its gleaming vocal fireworks and richly embroidered orchestral passages. Early-music specialist Giovanni Antonini conducts this and other Vivaldi treasures, including the Magnificat, in all its variety and invention; the luminous nobility of La Senna festeggiante, and the poignant Kyrie.
GIOVANNI ANTONINI
SEP
27 Muti & Bronfman Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Yefim Bronfman piano COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Solemn Prelude UNITED STATES PREMIERE BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) SERIES HIGHLIGHT
NOV
1
Grieg Piano Concerto and Prokofiev 6 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Xian Zhang conductor NGWENYAMA Primal Message
APR
4
GRIEG Piano Concerto
Simon Trpčeski piano PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6
Boccherini, Vivaldi & Mozart 40 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Labadie conductor Pablo Sáinz-Villegas guitar BOCCHERINI Symphony No. 26 in C Minor VIVALDI Guitar Concerto in D Major, RV 93 BOCCHERINI Fandango from Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D Major MOZART Symphony No. 40 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
MAY
9
Vivaldi Gloria Chicago Symphony Orchestra Giovanni Antonini conductor Amanda Forsythe soprano Yulia Van Doren soprano Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Chicago Symphony Chorus VIVALDI Sinfonia from La Senna festeggiante VIVALDI Kyrie VIVALDI Gloria
MAY
VIVALDI Magnificat
23 Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor CIMAROSA Overture to Il matrimonio segreto MOZART Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita)
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Robert Chen violin
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
Tuesday B |
5-Concert Series at 7:30 ✶
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Adès Conducts Adès with Gerstein Come along for an engrossing program of musical storytelling as Thomas Adès conducts Liszt’s swirling treatment of the Faust legend, Janáček’s depiction of a 17th-century Cossack warrior and Sibelius’ incidental music to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Kirill Gerstein presents Adès’ own Piano Concerto, “an affectionate, joyous, remarkably uncomplicated tribute to tradition” (The New York Times).
THOMAS ADÈS
OCT
25 Thielemann Conducts Bruckner 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Christian Thielemann conductor BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8
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DEC
Stravinsky, Beethoven & Sibelius 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Søndergård conductor Francesco Piemontesi piano Chicago Symphony Chorus STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms SERIES HIGHLIGHT BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 SERIES HIGHLIGHT SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
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APR
Adès Conducts Adès with Gerstein Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Adès conductor Kirill Gerstein piano LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ADÈS Piano Concerto SIBELIUS Overture and Suite No. 1 from The Tempest
MAY
JANÁČEK Taras Bulba
16 Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser MONTGOMERY New Work CSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
JUN
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Debussy La mer & Ravel La valse Chicago Symphony Orchestra David Afkham conductor Vadim Gluzman violin RAVEL Menuet antique SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 DEBUSSY La mer RAVEL La valse
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Thursday F |
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Amadeus Live Experience the Academy Award®-winning 1984 film on screen while Mozart’s celebrated works are performed live by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. This riveting film classic tells a story of envy between Vienna court composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) and the raffish but gifted young Mozart (Tom Hulce). AMADEUS LIVE IS A PRODUCTION OF AVEX CLASSICS INTERNATIONAL.
OCT
13 Amadeus Live Chicago Symphony Orchestra Constantine Kitsopoulos conductor Chicago Symphony Chorus
NOV 3
Wagner, Bartók and Vaughan Williams Chicago Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin WAGNER Prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5
FEB
16 Mäkelä Conducts López & Mahler 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Klaus Mäkelä conductor LÓPEZ Aino UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION MAHLER Symphony No. 5
APR
20 Trifonov Plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fabien Gabel conductor Daniil Trifonov piano LIADOV Kikimora STRAVINSKY Petrushka RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
MAY
25 Muti, Herbert & Pines of Rome Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor
David Herbert timpani
MOZART Divertimento in F Major, K. 138 KRAFT Timpani Concerto No. 1 RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite I RESPIGHI Pines of Rome SERIES HIGHLIGHT
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Thursday G |
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Muti & Bronfman A new season begins as dazzling pianist Yefim Bronfman joins Riccardo Muti and the CSO in Brahms’ unabashedly vigorous and stirring First Piano Concerto. Tchaikovsky’s joyful Second Symphony quotes folk melodies from Ukraine. The program opens with the U.S. premiere of a long-lost and recently discovered score by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a British composer of African descent.
RICCARDO MUTI
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22 Muti & Bronfman Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Yefim Bronfman piano COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Solemn Prelude UNITED STATES PREMIERE BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) SERIES HIGHLIGHT
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DEC
Hilary Hahn, Tchaikovsky & Bartók Chicago Symphony Orchestra Dalia Stasevska conductor
Hilary Hahn violin
TARRODI Birds of Paradise II TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra MAR
16 Carmina burana Chicago Symphony Orchestra Osmo Vänskä conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Reginald Mobley countertenor Elliot Madore baritone Chicago Symphony Chorus Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee artistic director MONTGOMERY Banner RAUTAVAARA Cantus Arcticus ORFF Carmina burana SERIES HIGHLIGHT
MAR
30 Boccherini, Vivaldi & Mozart 40 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Labadie conductor Pablo Sáinz-Villegas guitar BOCCHERINI Symphony No. 26 in C Minor VIVALDI Guitar Concerto in D Major, RV 93 BOCCHERINI Fandango from Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D Major MOZART Symphony No. 40
JUN
15
Muti, Pokorny & Schubert 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor
Gene Pokorny tuba
J. STRAUSS, JR. Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves SCHIFRIN Tuba Concerto SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 (Great)
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Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9 Mahler “peacefully bids farewell to the world” is how the composer’s protégé Bruno Walter described the finale to his Ninth Symphony. This valedictory score contains the many hallmarks of Mahler’s symphonies — their grand scale, profound emotions and folk dance themes — capped by an ethereal finale that achieves a sense of transcendent rapture.
JAKUB HRŮŠA
SEP
29 Muti Conducts Mozart & Prokofiev Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor ROSSINI Overture to Il viaggio a Reims MOZART Symphony No. 39 PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
NOV
17 Honeck, Capuçon & Shostakovich 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck conductor Gautier Capuçon cello GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila AUERBACH Diary of a Madman UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
FEB
23 Muti, Fischer & Tchaikovsky Manfred Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor SCHUMANN Violin Concerto
APR
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TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony SERIES HIGHLIGHT
Adès Conducts Adès with Gerstein Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Adès conductor LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ADÈS Piano Concerto SIBELIUS Overture and Suite No. 1 from The Tempest
JUN
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Julia Fischer violin
Kirill Gerstein piano
JANÁČEK Taras Bulba
Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Jakub Hrůša conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 9
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Combine Thursday H and I for a complete 10-concert
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Grieg Piano Concerto & Prokofiev 6 Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony was a risky undertaking in post-World War II Russia: a personal meditation on suffering and loss that he described as agitated, lyrical and austere. Pianist Simon Trpčeski animates the romantic flourishes of Grieg’s Piano Concerto while Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Primal Message is a fantasia inspired by the 1974 Aricebo interstellar radio transmission.
XIAN ZHANG
OCT
27 Grieg Piano Concerto & Prokofiev 6 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Xian Zhang conductor NGWENYAMA Primal Message PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6
DEC
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Simon Trpčeski piano
GRIEG Piano Concerto
Stravinsky, Beethoven & Sibelius 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Søndergård conductor Francesco Piemontesi piano Chicago Symphony Chorus STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
MAR
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SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
Blomstedt Conducts Dvořák 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt conductor Andrei Ioniță cello DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto
APR
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
27 Jurowski Conducts Shostakovich 7 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski conductor SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad)
MAY
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Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser MONTGOMERY New Work CSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
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CSO & The Joffrey Ballet Dancers from Chicago’s world-renowned Joffrey Ballet invigorate the Symphony Center stage with two newly commissioned choreographies set to Siegfried Idyll, Wagner’s glowing birthday gift to his wife, and Rameau’s vivid ballet, composed for a royal wedding at the Palace of Versailles. Ravel evokes Baroque dance in Le tombeau de Couperin, with each movement becoming a touching tribute to friends who died in World War I. The program opens with the beguiling elegance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 34.
OCT
20 Thielemann Conducts Bruckner 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Christian Thielemann conductor BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8
NOV
10 CSO & The Joffrey Ballet Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harry Bicket conductor The Joffrey Ballet Ashley Wheater MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director
MOZART Symphony No. 34 RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin RAMEAU Suite from Platée WAGNER Siegfried Idyll New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE
Cathy Marston choreography FEB
9
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa choreography
Shani Conducts Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Chicago Symphony Orchestra Lahav Shani conductor Beatrice Rana piano PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 (Classical) RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances SERIES HIGHLIGHT
APR 13
Mikko Franck & Hilary Hahn Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mikko Franck conductor
Hilary Hahn violin
R. STRAUSS Don Juan SERIES HIGHLIGHT RAUTAVAARA/AHO Deux Sérénades SARASATE Carmen Fantasy R. STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier MAY
18 Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor CIMAROSA Overture to Il matrimonio segreto MOZART Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita)
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Robert Chen violin
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
Combine Thursday D and E for a complete 10-concert
Thursday E |
5-Concert Series at 7:30 ✶
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Muti, Pollini & Pictures from an Exhibition
MAURIZIO POLLINI
OCT
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Mussorgsky, shaken by the passing of his friend, the artist Victor Hartmann, turned his grief into music, composing his lavishly evocative 10-movement suite inspired by Hartmann’s sketches. Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Ravel’s iconic orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition. Renowned pianist Maurizio Pollini makes his longawaited return to the stage with the CSO in Mozart’s dark-hued final piano concerto. The program opens with Franck’s supernatural thriller The Accursed Huntsman.
Muti, Pollini & Pictures from an Exhibition Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor
Maurizio Pollini piano
FRANCK Le chasseur maudit MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 MUSSORGSKY (ORCH. RAVEL) Pictures from an Exhibition
15 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
DEC
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bramwell Tovey conductor Cameron Carpenter organ DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice SERIES HIGHLIGHT POULENC Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 (Organ) MAR
23 Coleridge-Taylor, Copland & Dvořák 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Wilkins conductor Stephen Williamson clarinet COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Hiawatha Suite COPLAND Clarinet Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) SERIES HIGHLIGHT
MAY
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Vivaldi Gloria Chicago Symphony Orchestra Giovanni Antonini conductor Amanda Forsythe soprano Yulia Van Doren soprano Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Chicago Symphony Chorus VIVALDI Sinfonia from La Senna festeggiante VIVALDI Kyrie VIVALDI Gloria
JUN
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VIVALDI Magnificat
Debussy La mer & Ravel La valse Chicago Symphony Orchestra David Afkham conductor Vadim Gluzman violin RAVEL Menuet antique SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 DEBUSSY La mer RAVEL La valse
Thursday C package and save up to 40%! See page 32.
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Friday C |
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Shani Conducts Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances In a program celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov’s birth, Lahav Shani conducts the composer’s Symphonic Dances, which marries diabolical, jazzy melodies with plush, old-world grandeur. Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is soloist in Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody, a set of 24 variations that crackle with wit and furious energy. Prokofiev’s delightful Classical Symphony opens the program. LAHAV SHANI
Oct 7
Muti, Pollini & Pictures from an Exhibition Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor
Maurizio Pollini piano
FRANCK Le chasseur maudit MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 MUSSORGSKY (ORCH. RAVEL) Pictures from an Exhibition NOV
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CSO & The Joffrey Ballet Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harry Bicket conductor The Joffrey Ballet Ashley Wheater MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director MOZART Symphony No. 34 WAGNER Siegfried Idyll SERIES HIGHLIGHT New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE
Cathy Marston choreography
RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin RAMEAU Suite from Platée New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa choreography
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FEB
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Lahav Shani conductor Beatrice Rana piano PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 (Classical) RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances MAY
5
Vivaldi Gloria Chicago Symphony Orchestra Giovanni Antonini conductor Amanda Forsythe soprano Yulia Van Doren soprano Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Chicago Symphony Chorus VIVALDI Sinfonia from La Senna festeggiante VIVALDI Kyrie VIVALDI Gloria
JUN
9
VIVALDI Magnificat
Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Jakub Hrůša conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 9 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
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Friday D |
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Alsop Conducts Wolfe: Her Story Marin Alsop shines a light on the rich panorama of women composers. The program includes Her Story by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe. Says Wolfe, “From Abigail Adams, to Sojourner Truth, to a multitude of contemporary voices, Her Story captures the passion and perseverance of women demanding representation and leading the fight for equality. Ten female singers of the Lorelei Ensemble team up with the Chicago Symphony to tell this important part of American political history.” MARIN ALSOP
OCT
21 Thielemann Conducts Bruckner 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Christian Thielemann conductor BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8
NOV
4
Wagner, Bartók and Vaughan Williams Chicago Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin WAGNER Prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5
JAN
6
Alsop Conducts Wolfe: Her Story Chicago Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop conductor
Lorelei Ensemble
Program to include: WOLFE Her Story CSO CO-COMMISSION APR
28 Jurowski Conducts Shostakovich 7 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski conductor SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) SERIES HIGHLIGHT
JUN
23 Muti Conducts Beethoven Missa solemnis Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Erin Morley soprano Alisa Kolosova mezzo-soprano Giovanni Sala tenor Ildar Abdrazakov bass Chicago Symphony Chorus BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis SERIES HIGHLIGHT
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“Mozart said that the most profound music is the one that hides between the notes. It’s an incredible idea: between two notes, even if closely linked, there is infinity. The mystery is there, in that space that encloses the universe. The task of the musician and therefore of the conductor of the orchestra is precisely that, to be able to give voice and interpret the music that exists between two notes: in short, to bring out what is not written followed rigorously by what is. It is a great responsibility.” — FROM THE BOOK L’INFINITO TRA LE NOTE BY RICCARDO MUTI
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Saturday C |
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Muti, Pokorny & Schubert 9 Schubert’s magnificent final symphony and Johann Strauss Jr.’s Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves bookend this program with distinctive Viennese touches. CSO Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny takes the spotlight in a concerto written for him by Lalo Schifrin (best known for his Mission: Impossible theme), which incorporates Baroque and jazz influences.
GENE POKORNY
OCT
15 Amadeus Live
NOTE START TIME: 7:30
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Constantine Kitsopoulos conductor Chicago Symphony Chorus NOV
19 Honeck, Capuçon & Shostakovich 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck conductor Gautier Capuçon cello GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila AUERBACH Diary of a Madman UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
FEB
25 Muti, Fischer & Tchaikovsky Manfred Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor SCHUMANN Violin Concerto
APR
8
TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony
Adès Conducts Adès with Gerstein Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Adès conductor LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ADÈS Piano Concerto SIBELIUS Overture and Suite No. 1 from The Tempest
JUN
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Julia Fischer violin
Kirill Gerstein piano
JANÁČEK Taras Bulba
Muti, Pokorny & Schubert 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor
Gene Pokorny tuba
J. STRAUSS, JR. Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves SCHIFRIN Tuba Concerto SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 (Great) SERIES HIGHLIGHT
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Saturday D |
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Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2 Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony marked a personal comeback after a debilitating crisis of confidence. In the spring of 2023, a century and a half after the composer’s birth, Riccardo Muti conducts this sumptuous score, along with a world premiere by Mead Composerin-Residence Jessie Montgomery, who writes with “a Technicolor brilliance and harmonic plushness perfect for the CSO’s own heart-on-its-sleeve proclivities” (Chicago Tribune). JESSIE MONTGOMERY
OCT
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Muti, Pollini & Pictures from an Exhibition Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor
Maurizio Pollini piano
FRANCK Le chasseur maudit MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 MUSSORGSKY (ORCH. RAVEL) Pictures from an Exhibition SERIES HIGHLIGHT
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DEC
Stravinsky, Beethoven & Sibelius 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Søndergård conductor Francesco Piemontesi piano Chicago Symphony Chorus STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
18 Mäkelä Conducts López & Mahler 5
FEB
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Klaus Mäkelä conductor LÓPEZ Aino UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION MAHLER Symphony No. 5 MAY
13 Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser MONTGOMERY New Work CSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
JUN
10 Hrůša Conducts Mahler 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Jakub Hrůša conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 9 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
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Saturday E |
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony Iconoclastic organist Cameron Carpenter, “one of the rare musicians who changes the game of his instrument” (Los Angeles Times), takes on Poulenc’s sparkling, Baroque-infused concerto, followed by the elegance and floor-shaking grandeur of Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony. CAMERON CARPENTER
NOV
5
Wagner, Bartók and Vaughan Williams Chicago Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin WAGNER Prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5
DEC
17 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bramwell Tovey conductor Cameron Carpenter organ DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice POULENC Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 (Organ)
MAR
11
Blomstedt Conducts Dvořák 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt conductor Andrei Ioniță cello DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto
APR
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
22 Trifonov Plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fabien Gabel conductor Daniil Trifonov piano LIADOV Kikimora STRAVINSKY Petrushka RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
MAY
20 Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor CIMAROSA Overture to Il matrimonio segreto MOZART Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita)
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Robert Chen violin
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
Combine Saturday E and F for a complete 10-concert
Saturday F |
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Coleridge-Taylor, Copland & Dvořák 9
THOMAS WILKINS
OCT 1
Thomas Wilkins conducts three works featuring unique musical visions of America, capped with Dvořák’s majestic New World Symphony, which draws on African American and Native American source materials. Coleridge-Taylor’s ballet suite captures the spirit of Longfellow’s epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. CSO Principal Clarinet Stephen Williamson performs Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, premiered by Benny Goodman, which features a rollicking blend of jazz and classical sounds.
Muti Conducts Mozart & Prokofiev Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor ROSSINI Overture to Il viaggio a Reims MOZART Symphony No. 39 PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
JAN
7
Alsop Conducts Wolfe: Her Story Chicago Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop conductor
Lorelei Ensemble
Program to include: WOLFE Her Story CSO CO-COMMISSION MAR
25 Coleridge-Taylor, Copland & Dvořák 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Wilkins conductor Stephen Williamson clarinet COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Hiawatha Suite COPLAND Clarinet Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
MAY
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Vivaldi Gloria Chicago Symphony Orchestra Giovanni Antonini conductor Amanda Forsythe soprano Yulia Van Doren soprano Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Chicago Symphony Chorus VIVALDI Sinfonia from La Senna festeggiante VIVALDI Magnificat VIVALDI Kyrie VIVALDI Gloria SERIES HIGHLIGHT
JUN
3
Debussy La mer & Ravel La valse Chicago Symphony Orchestra David Afkham conductor Vadim Gluzman violin RAVEL Menuet antique SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 DEBUSSY La mer RAVEL La valse
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Hilary Hahn, Tchaikovsky & Bartók Dalia Stasevska surveys three concertos, from Bartók’s glittering late masterpiece — which shows off every section of the orchestra — to the scampering, playful sounds of Tarrodi’s Birds of Paradise II. CSO Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn joins the Orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s thrilling and tender Violin Concerto.
HILARY HAHN
OCT
22 Thielemann Conducts Bruckner 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Christian Thielemann conductor BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
DEC
10 Hilary Hahn, Tchaikovsky & Bartók Chicago Symphony Orchestra Dalia Stasevska conductor TARRODI Birds of Paradise II TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
MAR
Hilary Hahn violin
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra
18 Carmina burana Chicago Symphony Orchestra Osmo Vänskä conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Reginald Mobley countertenor Elliot Madore baritone Chicago Symphony Chorus Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee artistic director MONTGOMERY Banner RAUTAVAARA Cantus Arcticus ORFF Carmina burana SERIES HIGHLIGHT
APR
15
Mikko Franck & Hilary Hahn Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mikko Franck conductor
Hilary Hahn violin
R. STRAUSS Don Juan RAUTAVAARA/AHO Deux Sérénades SARASATE Carmen Fantasy R. STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier MAY
27 Muti, Herbert & Pines of Rome Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor MOZART Divertimento in F Major, K. 138 RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite I
22
David Herbert timpani
KRAFT Timpani Concerto No. 1 RESPIGHI Pines of Rome
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Jurowski Conducts Shostakovich 7 Vladimir Jurowski marks his return to Symphony Center with Shostakovich’s monumental Leningrad Symphony, a loving hymn to the composer’s native city and its heroism amid the 900-day siege during World War II. The vivid Seventh Symphony reverberates with the echoes of war, from the relentless, mechanized rhythms of the first movement to the fragile, victorious strains of the finale.
VLADIMIR JUROWSKI
NOV
12 CSO & The Joffrey Ballet Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harry Bicket conductor The Joffrey Ballet Ashley Wheater MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director MOZART Symphony No. 34 RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin RAMEAU Suite from Platée WAGNER Siegfried Idyll New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE
Cathy Marston choreography FEB
11
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa choreography
Shani Conducts Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Chicago Symphony Orchestra Lahav Shani conductor Beatrice Rana piano PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 (Classical) RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances
APR
1
Boccherini, Vivaldi & Mozart 40 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Labadie conductor Pablo Sáinz-Villegas guitar BOCCHERINI Symphony No. 26 in C Minor VIVALDI Guitar Concerto in D Major, RV 93 BOCCHERINI Fandango from Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D Major MOZART Symphony No. 40 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
APR
29 Jurowski Conducts Shostakovich 7 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski conductor SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad)
JUN
24 Muti Conducts Beethoven Missa solemnis Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Erin Morley soprano Alisa Kolosova mezzo-soprano Giovanni Sala tenor Ildar Abdrazakov bass Chicago Symphony Chorus BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis SERIES HIGHLIGHT
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Muti Conducts Beethoven Missa solemnis Few mass settings pose more questions of listeners than Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. A fervent meditation on faith and doubt, the piece spans moments of ecstasy and angst, soaring beauty and near-operatic theatricality. Riccardo Muti leads this rarely performed score with a thrilling quartet of international singers and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
NOV
20 Honeck, Capuçon & Shostakovich 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck conductor Gautier Capuçon cello GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila AUERBACH Diary of a Madman UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
18 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
DEC
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bramwell Tovey conductor Cameron Carpenter organ DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice SERIES HIGHLIGHT POULENC Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 (Organ) MAR
12 Blomstedt Conducts Dvořák 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt conductor Andrei Ioniță cello DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto
MAR
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8
26 Coleridge-Taylor, Copland & Dvořák 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Wilkins conductor Stephen Williamson clarinet COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Hiawatha Suite COPLAND Clarinet Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) SERIES HIGHLIGHT
APR
23 Trifonov Plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Fabien Gabel conductor Daniil Trifonov piano LIADOV Kikimora
JUN
STRAVINSKY Petrushka
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3
25 Muti Conducts Beethoven Missa solemnis Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Erin Morley soprano Alisa Kolosova mezzo-soprano Giovanni Sala tenor Ildar Abdrazakov bass Chicago Symphony Chorus BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis
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8-Concert Series at 1:30
30 Muti Conducts Mozart & Prokofiev Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor ROSSINI Overture to Il viaggio a Reims PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
OCT
MOZART Symphony No. 39
28 Grieg Piano Concerto and Prokofiev 6 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Xian Zhang conductor NGWENYAMA Primal Message PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6
DEC
2
Simon Trpčeski piano
GRIEG Piano Concerto
Stravinsky, Beethoven & Sibelius 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Søndergård conductor Francesco Piemontesi piano Chicago Symphony Chorus STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
DEC 16
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bramwell Tovey conductor Cameron Carpenter organ DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice POULENC Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 (Organ)
FEB
24 Muti, Fischer & Tchaikovsky Manfred Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor SCHUMANN Violin Concerto
APR
Julia Fischer violin
TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony SERIES HIGHLIGHT
14 Mikko Franck & Hilary Hahn Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mikko Franck conductor
Hilary Hahn violin
R. STRAUSS Don Juan RAUTAVAARA/AHO Deux Sérénades SARASATE Carmen Fantasy R. STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier MAY
12 Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser MONTGOMERY New Work CSO COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE SERIES HIGHLIGHT RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2 SERIES HIGHLIGHT
MAY
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor David Herbert timpani MOZART Divertimento in F Major, K. 138 KRAFT Timpani Concerto No. 1 RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite I RESPIGHI Pines of Rome
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Friday B | SEP
8-Concert Series at 1:30
23 Muti & Bronfman Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Yefim Bronfman piano COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Solemn Prelude UNITED STATES PREMIERE BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian)
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DEC
Hilary Hahn, Tchaikovsky & Bartók Chicago Symphony Orchestra Dalia Stasevska conductor
Hilary Hahn violin
TARRODI Birds of Paradise II TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra
17
FEB
Mäkelä Conducts López & Mahler 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Klaus Mäkelä conductor LÓPEZ Aino UNITED STATES PREMIERE, CSO CO-COMMISSION
MAR
17 ✶
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MAHLER Symphony No. 5
✶ Carmina burana
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Osmo Vänskä conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Reginald Mobley countertenor Elliot Madore baritone Chicago Symphony Chorus Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee artistic director MONTGOMERY Banner RAUTAVAARA Cantus Arcticus ORFF Carmina burana
7
APR
Adès Conducts Adès with Gerstein Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thomas Adès conductor LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ADÈS Piano Concerto SIBELIUS Overture and Suite No. 1 from The Tempest
MAY
JANÁČEK Taras Bulba
19 Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor CIMAROSA Overture to Il matrimonio segreto MOZART Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita)
JUN
Kirill Gerstein piano
2
Robert Chen violin
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4
Debussy La mer & Ravel La valse Chicago Symphony Orchestra David Afkham conductor Vadim Gluzman violin RAVEL Menuet antique SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 DEBUSSY La mer SERIES HIGHLIGHT RAVEL La valse
JUN
16
Muti, Pokorny & Schubert 9 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor J. STRAUSS, JR. Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 (Great) SERIES HIGHLIGHT
Gene Pokorny tuba SCHIFRIN Tuba Concerto
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1,105
1,632
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1,120
1,344
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715
1,056
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585
848
585
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630
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776
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960
565
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340
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340
408
310
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510
275
464
290
510
340
408
255
2U
380
185
288
190
380
215
258
185
1G
380
185
288
190
380
215
258
190
2G
260
140
248
145
260
170
204
135
1T
740
380
624
390
750
430
516
370
2T
510
270
464
290
510
340
408
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Riccardo Muti conducts a rousing start to the 2022/23 Season. After opening with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lush — and recently rediscovered — Solemn Prelude, the CSO is joined by the formidable Yefim Bronfman in Mozart’s joyous and richly scored piano concerto. The evening ends with a knockout finale in Tchaikovsky’s brilliant 1812 Overture. To enhance your experience with a gala package including a preconcert private reception in Buntrock Hall and postconcert dinner and dancing at The Four Seasons Hotel Chicago, email symphonyball@cso.org or call 312-294-3185.
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72
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64
51
68
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64
51
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124
114
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102
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102
112
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120
89
84
102
112
3L
105
81
55
72
82
4L
92
81
55
72
82
5L
66
73
55
72
82
1G
42
30
34
47
54
2G
32
28
32
43
48
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55
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38
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