CSO Audio Program Notes

CSO Program Notes: Chopin & Tchaikovsky

Tugan Sokhiev conducts Tchaikovsky’s youthful First Symphony, nicknamed Winter Dreams for its...

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CSO Program Notes: Mendelssohn Elijah

The 19th century’s most enduring oratorio, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, sung here in English, depicts...

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CSO Program Notes: Klaus Mäkelä & Sol Gabetta

Sol Gabetta, whose “enthusiastic music-making and animated style are completely infectious”...

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• 16 días

CSO Program Notes: Mahler 4

Susanna Mälkki conducts a thought-provoking program anchored by Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony....

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• 29 días

CSO Program Notes: The Music of Bach

Be transported to Zimmermann’s Coffee House, the Leipzig café where J.S. Bach introduced many of...

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• 29 días

CSO Program Notes: Also sprach Zarathustra

Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra — with its iconic opening popularized in 2001: A Space Odyssey —...

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CSO Program Notes: Gil Shaham Plays Mendelssohn

Experience the “brilliant and incisive” (Chicago Tribune) Gil Shaham in Mendelssohn’s Violin...

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CSO Program Notes: Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich

With his Ninth Symphony, Shostakovich delivered a tragicomic work with nods to Haydn and circus...

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CSO Program Notes: Schubert & Beethoven

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is treasured by generations of music fans for its whirling dance...

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CSO Program Notes: Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Elgar

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, hailed by The New Yorker as “a cellist of blazing sensitivity,” makes his CSO...

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CSO Program Notes: Seong-Jin Cho Plays Beethoven

Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto is a landmark of his dark and restless middle period, here...

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CSO Program Notes: Sir Andrew Conducts Handel’s Messiah

Experience the power of nearly 100 voices in magnificent harmony. From “The Trumpet Shall Sound”...

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CSO Program Notes: Bychkov Conducts Brahms

When Renaud Capuçon and Semyon Bychkov last appeared together with the CSO, sparks flew. The...

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CSO Program Notes: Hilary Hahn Plays Brahms

CSO Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn illuminates Brahms’ Violin Concerto, with its ardent beauty...

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CSO Program Notes: MTT Conducts Mozart

Michael Tilson Thomas lends his fresh insights to a compelling Austro-Germanic program. It...

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CSO Program Notes: The Rite of Spring & Kavakos

A panorama of ancient pagan rituals, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring put modernism squarely on...

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CSO Program Notes: Glass & Rachmaninov

Rachmaninov’s poignant Third Symphony evokes the Russia he left behind. Violinist Karen Gomyo,...

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CSO Program Notes: The Planets

Daniel Harding leads Holst’s The Planets, the interstellar orchestral suite that has inspired...

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CSO Program Notes: Mahler 1

Mahler’s First Symphony unfolds with the elemental sounds of nature, foot-stomping folk dances...

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CSO Program Notes: Gershwin & Bernstein

An exuberant melding of jazz, blues and classical styles, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F is an...

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