BP Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast Series

A retrospective from the CSO’s vast archive of commercial CDs.

• Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
• Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (Chicago Symphony Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director; James Levine, conductor)
• Bach: Excerpts from Mass in B Minor (Felicity Lott, soprano; Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Hans Peter Blochwitz, tenor; William Shimell, baritone; Gwynne Howell, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director; Sir Georg Solti, conductor)

David Zinman leads the orchestra in a winter-themed program.

• Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77 (Julia Fischer, violin)
• Rouse: Rapture
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Winter Daydreams
• Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Nutcracker

This retrospective with the Chicago Symphony Chorus features the new CSO Resound release of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 conducted by Bernard Haitink.

• Verdi: Ave Maria, Laudi alla Vergine Maria and Te Deum from Four Sacred Pieces (Jo Ann Pickens, soprano; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director; Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Resurrection (Miah Persson, soprano; Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director; Bernard Haitink, conductor)

The CSO’s 2009-10 opening concerts with Estonian-American conductor Paavo Järvi.

• Bernstein: Overture to Candide
• Bernstein: Serenade, after Plato’s Symposium (Vadim Gluzman, violin)
• Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Renée Fleming, soprano)
• Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
• Bernstein: Divertimento for Orchestra

Sir Mark Elder and the CSO share the stage with the Emerson String Quartet in the ongoing series of broadcasts from the orchestra’s spring Dvorák Festival.

• Dvorák: String Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97, American (Emerson String Quartet with Paul Neubauer, viola)
• Dvorák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, Nos. 2 and 3
• Dvorák: The Midday Witch
• Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, From the New World

An intriguing juxtaposition of English works and late Shostakovich.

• Purcell/Stucky: Funeral Music for Queen Mary (Bernard Haitink, conductor)
• Britten: Les Illuminations, Op. 18 (Ian Bostridge, tenor; Bernard Haitink, conductor)
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op. 141 (Bernard Haitink, conductor)
• Purcell: Suite from Abdelazer (Nicholas McGegan, conductor)
• Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a (Manfred Honeck, conductor)

Pierre Boulez holds the title of conductor emeritus of the CSO. As a 100th birthday tribute to Elliott Carter, he conducts a work Carter wrote for Boulez’s own 80th birthday. The performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 comes from a concert in November 2006.

• Carter: Réflexions
• Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
• Mahler: Symphony No. 7

Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink mixes lesser-known works by Webern and Mahler, with some of the CSO’s core repertoire.

• Webern: Im Sommerwind
• Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D Major, The Clock
• Mahler: Rückert Lieder (Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano)
• Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68

Italian conductor Daniele Gatti returns to the CSO to conduct the rarely heard Prokofiev Piano

• Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand with Russian pianist Dmitri Alexeev.
• Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, Italian
• Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand in B-flat Major, Op. 53 (Dmitri Alexeev, piano)
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica

In his first concerts as music director designate in January 2009, Riccardo Muti conducts the CSO in Verdi’s Requiem; Sir Mark Elder conducts a sacred work from the CSO’s spring Dvoøák Festival.

• Verdi: Messa da Requiem (Barbara Frittoli, soprano; Olga Borodina, mezzo-soprano;
• Mario Zeffiri, tenor; Ildar Abdrazakov, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain
• Wolfe, director; Riccardo Muti, conductor)
• Dvorák: Te Deum (Patricia Racette, soprano; Philip Cutlip, baritone, Chicago Symphony
• Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director; Sir Mark Elder, conductor)

One of Chicago’s city fathers was Daniel Burnham, who designed Orchestra Hall and in 1909 published his vision for the layout of the city. All this year Chicago institutions are honoring Burnham. Documentarian Geoffrey Baer co-hosts this broadcast with Lisa Simeone.

• Wagner: Hail Bright Abode from Tannhäuser (Frederick Stock, conductor)
• Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
• Copland: Suite from The Tender Land (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
• Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D Major (Alex Klein, oboe; Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
• Handel: Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah (Chicago Symphony Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director; Sir Georg Solti, conductor)

In this all-Sibelius program, the CSO presents commentator Gerard McBurney in excerpts from the Beyond the Score exploration of the composer’s Symphony No. 5.

• Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela from Four Legends from the Kalevala (Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor)
• Sibelius: Lemminkäinen in Tuonela from Four Legends from the Kalevala (Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor)
• Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 (Lisa Batiashvili, violin; Charles Dutoit, conductor)
• Sibelius: Rakastava (Osmo Vänskä, conductor)
• Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (Osmo Vänskä, conductor)

Music that the CSO’s three remarkable conductors, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, and Riccardo Muti, will conduct in the upcoming season - a Retrospective from the commercial archive

• Bartók: Excerpts from Bluebeard’s Castle (Jessye Norman, soprano; László Polgár, bass; Pierre Boulez, conductor)
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)

Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden was the youngest violinist to hold the position of concertmaster in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and is now an internationally known conductor. He guest-conducted the CSO twice in the 2008-2009 season

• Wagenaar: Cyrano de Bergerac
• Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major

• Dvorák: In Nature’s Realm Overture, Op. 91
• Dvorák: Romance in F Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 11 (Rachel Barton Pine, violin)
• Dvorák: Song to the Moon from Rusalka (Patricia Racette, soprano)
• Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 (Alisa Weilerstein, cello)
• Dvorák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88

• Respighi: Trittico botticelliano
• Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
• Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
• Fauré: Dolly (orch. Rabaud)
• Williams: Memoirs of a Geisha (Yo-Yo Ma, cello, John Williams, conductor)

• Mussorgsky: Night on Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky- Korsakov)
• Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 99
• Encore: J.S. Bach: Sarabande from Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004
• Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Opus 82

Soloists: Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano / Russell Braun, baritone / New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director

• Mahler: Blumine
• Lieberson: The World in Flower
• Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D

• Dvorak: The Golden Spinning Wheel
• Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3
• Martinu: Symphony No. 4

• Verdi: Ballet of the Four Seasons from I vespri sicilliani
• Puccini: Preludio sinfonico
• Respighi: Pines of Rome

• Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
• Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C-major, “The Great C-Major”

• Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
• Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat, Opus 107
• Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Opus 40
• Encore: Sibelius: Valse Triste

• Stravinsky: Concerto in E-Flat for Chamber Orchestra,
• Dumbarton Oaks
• Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G-Minor
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor

• Weber: Overture to Oberon
• Nielsen: Flute Concerto (Mathieu Dufour, Flute)
• Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
• McPhee: Tabuh-tabuhan, Toccata for Orchestra and Two Pianos (Mary Sauer, Patrick Godon, Pianos; Alan Gilbert, Conductor)

• Root: The Battle Cry of Freedom
• Payne & Bishop: Home, Sweet Home
• Harris: Symphony No. 6 (Gettysburg)
• Bennett: Selections from Abraham Lincoln (A Likeness in Symphony Form)
• Piston: Symphony
• Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Marcus Roberts Trio)
• Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Daniel Barenboim joins pianist Radu Lupu at the keyboard in Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos. Plus Schoenberg’s early symphonic poem, Pelléas and Mélisande.

• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 266 (Radu Lupu, piano)
• Schoenberg: Pelléas and Mélisande, Op. 5
• Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat Major, K. 365

Gustavo Dudamel returned to Chicago in January 2009 for a concert with pianist Stephen Hough performing the Piano Concerto No. 21 by Mozart. And from a special concert in the same week, Yo-Yo Ma performs Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul for Cello and Orchestra, with hyper-accordion and percussion.

• Barber: Adagio
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467
• Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
• Golijov: Azul (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)

A retrospective celebrating this month’s Dvorák festival in Chicago, including Dvorák’s Symphony No. 8, and works by his Czech compatriots, Kodály and Janácek.

• Dvorák: Carnival Overture (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
• Dvorák: Silent Woods (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)
• Carlo Maria Giulini, conducts
  Dvorák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
• Kodály: Peacock Variations (Neeme Järvi, conductor)
• Janácek: Sinfonietta (Seiji Ozawa, conductor)

Ludovic Morlot is a young French conductor who led this all-Russian program in November 2008, and to fill out the broadcast is Morlot’s performance of the Rosenkavalier Waltzes by Richard Strauss from 2007.

• Glinka: Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla
• Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44
• Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
• Glishic: Prelude and Pajduska (Simon Trpeski, piano)
• R. Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier

The Poulenc Gloria is newly released on the CSO ReSound label. The remainder of the broadcast comes from the Chicago performance of the CSO’s European tour repertoire, with Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink and pianist Murray Perahia.

• Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E Minor
• Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 4
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
• (Jessica Rivera, soprano; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolf, director)
  Poulenc: Gloria

Former Music Director Daniel Barenboim finished his tenure with the orchestra in 2006. From that final season, he conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and a Mozart piano concerto with soloist Alfred Brendel.

• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 (Alfred Brendel, piano)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Fritz Reiner leads the CSO in a retrospective program featuring the autobiographical Domestic Symphony by Richard Strauss and Mahler’s luminous Fourth Symphony.

• Weinberger: Polka and Fugue from Schwanda, the Bagpiper
• R. Strauss: Domestic Symphony, Op. 53
• Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Lisa Della Casa, soprano)

Bernard Haitink is the Principal Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His residency in Chicago in December 2008 included performances of Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony and the Symphony No. 7 by Bruckner.

• Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, Jupiter
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major

The CSO performs Russian music: Valery Gergiev conducts a suite from Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, with violinist Vadim Repin. Leonard Slatkin leads the orchestra in the Symphony No. 6 by Shostakovich.

• Debussy: Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
• Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.1 in D Major, Op. 19 (Vadim Repin, violin)
• Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54

Peruvian conductor and curator Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the CSO in a musical journey along the “Inca Trail,” featuring old and new works from his native country. Jessica Warren-Acosta plays Andean flutes.

• Alomía Robles: El cóndor pasa
• Martínez y Compañón: Colección de música virreinal
• Luzuriaga: Responsorio
• Frank: Illapa
• Golijov: Mariel for Cello and Orchestra (Kenneth Olson, cello)
• Soro: Tres Aires Chilenos
• López: Fiesta!
• Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 (Paavo Jarvi, conductor)

Neeme Järvi conducts the CSO’s first-ever performance of the Symphony No. 4 by Sergei Taneyev. Pianist Yefim Bronfman opens this concert from October 2008 with Rachmaninov’s powerful Piano Concerto No. 3, and the broadcast finishes with soloist Håkan Hardenberger in the trumpet concerto Aerial by Austrian composer H. K. Gruber.

• Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
• Taneyev: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 12
• Gruber: Aerial (David Zinman, conductor)

From the archive of commercial recordings, Sir Georg Solti leads the CSO and Chorus in Part I of Haydn’s Oratorio The Creation, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Vladimir Ashkenazy. And Solti’s predecessor, Jean Martinon conducts Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable.

• Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano; Sir Georg Solti, conducts
  Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
• Ruth Ziesak, soprano; Herbert Lippert, tenor; René Pape, bass; ChicagoSymphony Chorus; Margaret Hillis, director; Sir Georg Solti, conducts
  Haydn: The Creation, Part I
• Jean Martinon, conducts
  Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, Op. 29, The Inextinguishable

Michael Tilson Thomas opens a CSO concert from October 2008 with his own Street Song for Symphonic Brass. Symphonies by Sibelius and Shostakovich complete an all-twentieth-century program.

• Tilson Thomas: Street Song for Symphonic Brass
• Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47

Two major works in the repertoire: Helmut Rilling conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Mozart’s Requiem, and Daniel Barenboim conducts Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony.

• Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Helmut Rilling, conductor)
• Daniel Barenboim, conducts
  Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica

The CSO goes Beyond the Score to explore Gustav Holst’s The Planets, in a program conducted by Charles Dutoit.

• Haydn: Symphony No. 85 in B-Flat Major, La Reine
• Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
• Debussy: Nocturnes
• Holst: The Planets, Op. 32

An all-American program which includes rarely-heard works by Copland and Bernstein.

• Copland: Old American Songs (Kevin Deas, bass-baritone; Alan Gilbert, conductor)
• Adams: Century Rolls (Olli Mustonen, piano; David Robertson, conductor)
• Bernstein: Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah (David Robertson, conductor)
• Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, From the New World (David Robertson, conductor)

James Levine leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a retrospective that features the complete incidental music to Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

• Schubert: Overture and Ballet Music from Rosamunde
• Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
• Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Incidental Music

Charles Dutoit conducts this concert, as well as the accompanying multi-media production of Beyond the Score: Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

• Sibelius: Finlandia
• Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 (Lang Lang, piano)
• Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
• Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Lorin Maazel conducts a program that includes a Chicago premiere by Augusta Read Thomas.

• Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 107 (John Sharp, cello)
• Thomas: Gathering Paradise, Emily Dickinson Settings (Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano)
• Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39
• Rossini: William Tell Overture (Charles Dutoit, conductor)

Leonard Slatkin conducts a program from June 2008, featuring violist Pinchas Zukerman.

• Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48 (Pinchas Zukerman, conductor)
• Hindemith: Overture to Neues vom Tage
• Hindemith: Trauermusik (Pinchas Zukerman, viola)
• Friedman: Sacred Heart: Explosion
• Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Pinchas Zukerman, viola)

A retrospective from our commercial archive by the CSO and the Chicago Symphony Chorus, under the direction of Margaret Hillis.

• Verdi: Gloria all’Egitto from Aïda (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
• Verdi: Va, pensiero from Nabucco (Sir Georg, Solti, conductor)
• Debussy: Nocturnes for Orchestra (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)
• Brahms: A German Requiem, Op. 45 (James Levine, conductor)

A return to the CSO by conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen for the CSO premiere of his Piano Concerto.

• Berio: Four Original Versions of Luigi Boccherini’s Ritirata notturna di Madrid
• Salonen: Piano Concerto (Yefim Bronfman, piano)
• Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-Flat Major, K. 495 (Daniel Gingrich, horn)
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

Myung-Whun Chung conducts an all-French concert, plus a work by Bartók, led by Pierre Boulez.

• Bartók: Four Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 12 (Pierre Boulez, conductor)
• Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet

Manfred Honeck guest conducts the CSO in concerts from 2005 and 2008.

• Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 (John Sharp, cello)
• Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
• Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

This retrospective features violinist Cho-Liang Lin playing Bruch. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble join the CSO for music by Zhou Long.

• Bruch: Scottish Fantasy (Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Leonard Slatkin, conductor)
• Zhou Long: Poems from Tang: Song of Eight Unruly Tipsy Poets (Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor)
• Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Leonard Slatkin, conductor)
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastoral (Sir Georg Solti, conductor)

Nicholas McGegan conducts a program from November 2008.

• Purcell: Suite from King Arthur
• Hummel: Piano Concerto in A Minor (Stewart Goodyear, piano)
• Handel: Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 6
• Mozart: Symphony No. 33 in B-Flat Major, K. 319
• Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major (Mark Ridenour, trumpet)