Chicago Symphony Orchestra
April 6-8
Music written about or for
Frederick Stock: Symphonic Waltz, Op. 8 (from CD) (Frederick Stock, conductor)
Lindberg: Chick-a-Bone Checkout (Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor)
Stravinsky: Symphony in C (from CD) (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
Golijov: Rose of the Winds (Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor)
Turnage: Chicago Remains (Bernard Haitink, conductor)
April 13-15
Retrospective: CSO at the Opera
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
Wagner: Quintet: Die selige Morgentraum-Deutweise from Die Meistersinger von
Nürnberg (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours from La Giaconda (Frederick Stock, conductor)
Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
J. Strauss: Overture to Die Fledermaus (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
Verdi: Act 1 from Otello (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
Rossini: Overture to La Scala di seta (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs (Jean Martinon, conductor)
Beethoven: Final Scene from Fidelio (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
April 20-22
Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink conducts a subscription concert from
October 2007.
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
April 27-29
David Robertson guest conducts the CSO, plus interviews with Robertson,
saxophone soloist
Branford Marsalis, and composer John Adams.
Faure: Sicilienne from Pelléas et Mélisande
Copland: Clarinet Concerto (Branford Marsalis, soprano saxophone)
Adams: Harmonielehre
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
May 4-6
Guest conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi and the young German violinist Arabella
Steinbacher
are both guests with the CSO on a subscription concert from November, 2007.
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 (Arabella Steinbacher, violin)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104
May 11-13
Retrospective: Remembering Carlo Maria Giulini, born May 9, 1914.
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Op. 25, Classical
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, Unfinished
Stravinsky: Suite from Petrushka (1947)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
May 18-20
British conductor Nicholas Kraemer is a Baroque specialist who provides
fascinating
commentary to go with the music on this concert from November 2007.
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349
Telemann: Tafelmusik III – Part I: Suite in B-flat, TWV 55:B1
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major, Hob. VIIe:1
(Christopher Martin,
trumpet)
Haydn: Symphony No. 90 in C Major
Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird (Mikko Franck, conductor)
May 25-27
British conductor Mark Elder does something unusual in this concert from
December 2007: he
has the orchestra play Webern’s Five Pieces for Orchestra a second time
after the concert with
some explanation from the stage.
Delius: A Song of Summer
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40 (Stephen Hough, piano)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D Minor, Op. 104
Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102, Double (Robert Chen,
violin, Jan Vogler, cello)
Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
June 1-3
Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink leads the CSO in an all German/Austrian
program,
featuring pianist Emanuel Ax.
Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183
Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 (Emanuel Ax)
June 8-10
A CSO Retrospective: Guest Soloists
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 (Jacqueline du Pré, cello; Daniel
Barenboim, conductor)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano;
Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (Jascha Heifetz, violin; Fritz
Reiner,
conductor)
June 15-17
Lorin Maazel is best known as the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic,
but he guest conducted
the CSO in this program from February 2005.
Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
Bartok: Two Pictures, Op. 10
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 100
June 22-24
A much-requested concert by Daniel Barenboim.
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major for Winds, K. 297b
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major
June 29 - July 1
During Riccardo Muti’s residency in the fall of 2007, he conducted
several concerts and took the
orchestra on tour to Europe. This music is from those performances.
Verdi: Overture to La Forza del Destino
Hindemith: Suite from Nobilissima Visione
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, Pathétique
Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54