PROKOFIEV Symphony No

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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.

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 Simon Trpčeski piano NGWENYAMA Primal Message GRIEG Piano Concerto PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6

APR 4 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 Magnificat VIVALDI Kyrie VIVALDI Gloria

MAY 23 Muti, Chen & Mozart Gran Partita

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti conductor Robert Chen violin CIMAROSA Overture to Il matrimonio segreto MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4 MOZART Serenade No. 10 (Gran Partita)

THOMAS ADÈS

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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).

OCT 25 Thielemann Conducts Bruckner 8

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Christian Thielemann conductor BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8

DEC 6 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

APR 11 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 JANÁČEK Taras Bulba

MAY 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 6 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