Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast Series

Haydn: Symphony No. 89 in F Major, Hob. I:89
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200
Orff: Carmina Burana

Crawford Seeger: Andante for Strings
Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (Yefim Bronfman, piano)
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97, Rhenish (John Eliot Gardiner, conductor)

Strauss: Overture to Die Fledermaus
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op.15 (Till Fellner, piano)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante in B-Flat Major (Eugene Izotov, oboe;
David McGill, bassoon: Robert Chen, violin; John Sharp; cello; Bernard Haitink, conductor)

Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Elgar: Falstaff, Symphonic Study in C Minor, Op. 68
Rimsky-Korsakov: Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (Robert Spano, conductor)

Berlioz: Le Corsaire Overture
Berlioz: Queen Mab Scherzo; Romeo at the Tomb of the Capulets from Romeo and Juliet Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Lawrence Power, viola)
Berlioz: Nuits d’été (Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Pierre Boulez, conductor)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 (Kirill Gerstein, piano)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 103, The Year 1905
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture

Matheson: Violin Concerto (CSO Co-commission, World Premiere) (Baird Dodge, violin)
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor

Mahler: Blumine
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Jeremy Denk, piano)
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 (orchestrated by Schoenberg)
Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major, K. 313 (Mathieu Dufour, flute; Daniel Barenboim, conductor)

Stucky: Rhapsodies for Orchestra
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat Major, K. 191/186e (David McGill, bassoon)
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 (Daniel Barenboim, conductor)

Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos in D Minor (Katya and Marielle Lebeque, piano)
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 78 (David Robertson, conductor)

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21Beethoven: Octet for Winds in E-Flat Major, Op. 103 (Eugene Izotov & Lora Schaefer, oboes; John Bruce Yeh & Gregory Smith, clarinets; William Buchman & Dennis Michel, bassoons; Daniel Gingrich & Susanna Drake, horns)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 97

Ives: The Unanswered Question
Musgrave: Autumn Sonata
Ives: Three Places in New England
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) (Vadim Gluzman, violin; Paavo Järvi, conductor)

Wagner: Huldigungsmarsch
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major (Michele Campanella, piano)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 47
Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor (CSO Brass)

Bernard Labadie conducts a program of 18th century music.

• Handel: Organ Concerto No. 1 in G Minor (Richard Pare, organ)
• Handel: Organ Concerto No. 4 in F Major (Richard Pare, organ)
• Handel: Water Music (complete)
• Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat Major, K. 543

CSO Principal Flute Mathieu Dufour is the soloist in the Ibert Concerto, conducted by Riccardo Muti.

• Rota: Suite from The Leopard
• Ibert: Flute Concerto (Mathieu Dufour, flute)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
• Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C Major, K. 338

French conductor Stéfane Denčve makes his CSO debut.

• Prokofiev: Suite from The Love for Three Oranges
• Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 (Leonidas Kavakos)
• Roussel: The Spider’s Feast
• Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe
• Rameau: Suite from Naďs (Frans Brueggen, conductor)

Bernard Haitink returns for a fall residency.

• Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante (Eugene Izotov, oboe; David McGill, bassoon; Robert Chen, violin; John Sharp, cello)
• Berg: Violin Concerto (Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Klara Ek, soprano)

American violinist Joshua Bell is featured in a concert with conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier.

• Faure: Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande
• Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor (Joshua Bell, violin)
• Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A Minor (Joshua Bell, violin)
• Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor (Organ)
• Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales (Pierre Boulez, conductor)

Riccardo Muti conducts an all-Italian program.

• Sinigaglia: Overture to Le baruffe chiozzotte
• Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, Italian
• Martucci: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 66
• Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque
• Bossi: Intermezzi from Goldoniani

Dutch violinist Janine Jansen makes her CSO debut during the orchestra’s Dvorák Festival. Sir Mark Elder conducts.

• Dvorák: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 10
• Dvorák: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53 (Janine Jansen, violin)
• Dvorák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70

Nicholas McGegan conducts a program with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

• Vivaldi: Concerto alla rustica
• Corelli: Concerto Grosso in D Major
• Vivaldi: Oboe Concerto in F Major (Eugene Izotov, oboe)
• Mendelssohn/Alkan: Blanco
• Martinu: Toccata e due canzoni
• Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314 (Eugene Izotov, oboe; Ludovic Morlot, conductor)
• Hummel: Piano Concerto in A Minor (Stewart Goodyear, piano)

Semyon Bychkov conducts the Symphony No. 8 by Shostakovich.

• Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto in C (Jennifer Gunn, piccolo; Harry Bicket, conductor)
• Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 (Larry Combs, clarinet)
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65

Christoph von Dohnányi conducts Schumann.

• Bartók: Divertimento for String Orchestra
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414 (Paul Lewis, piano)
• Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major
• Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major (Pinchas Zukerman, conductor)

Evgeny Kissin plays Grieg.

• Sibelius: Suite from Karelia
• Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor (Evgeny Kissin, piano)
• Stravinsky: Petrushka
• Sibelius: Lemminkäinen in Tuonela and The Swan of Tuonela from Four Legends from the Kalevala (Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor)

Riccardo Muti conducts the opera Otello by Verdi.

• Verdi: Otello (Aleksandrs Antonenko, Nicola Alaimo, Juan Francisco Gatell, Michael Spyres, Eric Owens, Paolo Battaglia, David Govertson, Krassimira Stoyanova, Barbara Di Castri, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director; Chicago Children’s Choir, Josephine Lee Artistic Director)

Bernard Haitink returns to conduct Mahler’s 9th Symphony

• Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D Major, The Clock
• Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Major

Riccardo Muti conducts a world premiere by Bernard Rands, as well as a rarely-heard symphony by Hindemith.

• Cherubini: Overture in G Major
• Rands: Danza Petrificada (CSO Commission, World Premiere)
• Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
• Hindemith: Symphony in E-Flat
• Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet

A concert from the CSO’s spring 2009 Dvorak Festival, conducted by Sir Mark Elder.

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

Riccardo Muti conducts a concert that features Yo-Yo Ma in the Schumann Cello Concerto as well as a work by Mead composer-in-residence Mason Bates.

• Bates: The B-Sides, Five Pieces for Orchestra and Electronica
• Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129 (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)
• Strauss: Aus Italien
• Liszt: Les Preludes

Ludovic Morlot conducts a mostly-French program featuring CSO Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin.

• Dutilleux: Symphony No. 2 (Le double)
• Jolivet: Concertino for Trumpet (Christopher Martin, trumpet)
• Tomasi: Trumpet Concerto (Christopher Martin, trumpet)
• Roussel: Suite No. 2 from Bacchus and Ariadne
• Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor (Simon Trpceski, piano)

James Conlon frequently conducts the CSO as Music Director of the Ravinia Festival: for this concert he conducts the orchestra in a downtown subscription series.

• Golijov: Sidereus (CSO co-commission in honor of Henry Fogel)
• Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Leonidas Kavakos, violin)
• Shostakovich: Suite from Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
• Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Winds (Peter Serkin, piano; Vladimir Jurowski, conductor)

Conductor John Eliot Gardiner and pianist Robert Levin provide their unique insight into Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto.

• Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks (Nicolas McGegan, conductor)
• Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony for Strings in C Minor, Op. 110a (John Eliot Gardiner, conductor)
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (Robert Levin, piano; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor)
• Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97, Rhenish (John Eliot Gardiner, conductor)

Charles Dutoit conducts the 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

Esa-Pekka Salonen returns for the Chicago premiere of his Violin Concerto.

• Debussy: Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
• Salonen: Violin Concerto (Leila Josefowicz, violin) (CSO co-commission)
• Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
• Fauré: Suite from Pelléas et Melisande (Philippe Jordan, conductor)

• Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture (Charles Dutoit, conductor)
• Stravinsky: Suite from The Fairy’s Kiss
• Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
• Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 (Leif Ove Andsnes, piano)

This Berlioz spectacular comes from Riccardo Muti’s opening residency of the 2010-2011 season.

• Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
• Berlioz: Lélio, or the Return to Life (Gérard Depardieu, Narrator; Mario Zeffiri, tenor; Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director)

A program conducted by Leonard Slatkin

• Hindemith: Overture to Neues vom Tage
• Hindemith: Trauermusik
• Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Pinchas Zukerman, viola)
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47

Mitsuko Uchida is both pianist and conductor in two concertos by Mozart.

• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 11 in F Major, K. 413
• Mozart: Divertimento in B-Flat Major, K. 137
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467
• Franck: Symphony in D Minor (Philippe Jordan, conductor)

Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez leads a program featuring mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and pianist Daniel Barenboim.

• Berio: Quatre Dédicaces
• Berlioz: Les nuits d’été (Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano)
• Stravinsky: Petrushka
• Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Daniel Barenboim, piano)

A concert from January, conducted by Leonard Slatkin

• Bartók: Four Pieces for Orchestra (Pierre Boulez, conductor)
• Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 Movements
• Elgar: In the South (Alassio), Op. 50
• Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Conductor Juanjo Mena and violinist Renaud Capuçon make their CSO debuts.

• Ravel: Concerto for the Left Hand (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Charles Dutoit, conductor)
• Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
• Korngold: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (Renaud Capuçon, violin)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, Pathétique

Sir Mark Elder conducts a program that includes the CSO’s new production of Beyond the Score: Prokofiev Symphony No. 5, along with the final performance in Stephen Hough’s cycle of Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos.

• Liadov: Baba-Yaga, Op. 56
• Liadov: The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62
• Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 (Stephen Hough, piano)
• Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 100
• Tchaikovsky: The Storm (Alexander Polianichko, conductor)

CSO commentator Gerard McBurney delves into the literary and historical roots of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, in excerpts from Beyond the Score. Alexander Polianichko conducts.

• Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (Piotr Anderszewski, piano)
• Tchaikovsky: Marche slav in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31 (Claudio Abbado, conductor)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor

A program from October 2010, conducted by Pierre Boulez

• Stravinsky: Four Studies for Orchestra
• Webern: Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1
• Mahler: Symphony No. 7
• Mozart: Divertimento in F Major, K. 138

Sakari Oramo makes his CSO debut

• Sibelius: Finlandia
• Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (Vadim Repin, violin)
• Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 111
• Tchaikovsky: Suite from Sleeping Beauty (Andrey Boreyko, conductor)

An all-Tchaikovsky program led by Chinese conductor Xian Zhang.

• Tchaikovsky: Fantasy in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 56
• Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4 Mozartiana
• Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44 (Stephen Hough, piano)
• Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. post. 75 (Stephen Hough, piano)

Concertmaster Robert Chen is the featured soloist in the Symphonie espagnole by Eduard Lalo. Charles Dutoit conducts a program that also includes the Symphony No. 5 by Tchaikovsky.

• Ravel: Mother Goose Suite (Sir Andrew Davis, conductor)
• Rossini: Overture to La gazza ladra
• Lalo: Symphonie espagnole (Robert Chen, violin)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

Sir Andrew Davis conducts the US premiere of Texan Tenbrae by Marc-Anthony Turnage, a pre-quel to his opera about Anna Nicole Smith.

• Turnage: Texan Tenebrae
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (Vladimir Feltsman, piano)
• Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor
• Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (Xian Zhang, conductor)

Jaap van Zweden conducts a dramatic program that includes John Luther Adams’’ Dark Waves, inspired by the Alaskan seascape.

• J. L. Adams: Dark Waves
• Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Maesha Brueggergosman, soprano)
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65
• Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 (Jennifer Gunn, flute; Eugene Izotov, oboe; Christopher Martin, trumpet; Robert Chen, violin; Pinchas Zukerman, conductor)

David Robertson conducts a program including music from the Japanese Imperial Court that inspired both Rituel by Boulez and Sept Haďkď by Messiaen.

• Boulez: Rituel (In Memorium Bruno Maderna)
• Messiaen: Sept Haďkď (Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano; Patricia Dash, xylophone; Vadim Karpinos, marimba)
• Reigakusha (Gagaku Ensemble)
• Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, From the New World

Former Music Director of the New York Philharmonic Lorin Maazel, 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

Pierre Boulez returns to Chicago in his role as Conductor Emeritus

• Donatoni: In cauda II
• Debussy: Symphonic Fragments from The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
• Ligeti: Violin Concerto (Robert Chen, violin)
• Ravel:Valses Nobles and Sentimentales
• Debussy: La mer

A concert from November 2010, conducted by British conductor Antonio Pappano.

• Mozart: Symphony No. 23 in D Major, K. 181
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19 (Jonathan Biss, piano)
• Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 Italian
• Shostakovich: Cello Concerto. No. 2, Op. 126 (Hannah Chang, cello)

An all-Copland concert conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, along with a rare performance of the ballet Apollon Musagcte by Stravinsky.

Copland:

• Quiet City
• Symphony for Organ and Orchestra
• Orchestral Variations
• Appalachian Spring

Stravinsky:

• Apollon Musag te

Scholars have suggested that the 10th Symphony by Shostakovich is closest in spirit not to his Russian roots, but to the northern starkness of Carl Nielsen. Paavo Järvi conducts.

• Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op. 50

• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93

• Nielsen:Helios Overture (Jean Martinon, conductor; from CD)

Finnish conductor Mikko Franck conducts a narrated version of the incidental music to

• Egmont by Beethoven.

• Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48 (Pinchas Zukerman, conductor)

• Beethoven: Egmont, Op. 84 (John Mahoney, narrator; Erin Wall, soprano; Mikko Franck, conductor)

• Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird (1945 version) (Mikko Franck, conductor)

Riccardo Muti conducts his inaugural week as Music Director of the CSO.

• Haydn: Symphony No. 39 in G Minor

• Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C Major, K. 338

• Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 (Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin)

• Liszt: Les Preludes

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducts a concert from May 2010.

• Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz

• Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major (Jorge Federico Osorio, piano)

R. Strauss:

• Don Juan

• R. Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

• Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat Major, K. 364

Ton Koopman conducts music from the Baroque and Classical eras.

SOLOISTS: John Bruce Yeh, clarinet; Brant Taylor, cello; Kuang-Hao Huang, piano

• Mozart: Serenada No. 6 in D Major, K. 239, Serenata Notturna

• Haydn: Notturno No. 8 in G Major, H. II:27

• Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425, Linz

• C.P.E. Bach: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, W. 183

• J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068

• Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 38

• Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 4 in G Major, H. VIIa

• Hartmann: Concerto Funčbre for Solo Violin and String Orchestra

• Barber: Adagio for Strings

• Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, Turkish

• Beethoven: Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 97, Archduke

• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat Major, K. 482 (Daniel Barenboim, piano)

• Mozart: Andante cantabile from the Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 330

• Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor

• Wagner: Centennial Inauguration March, WWV 110

• Chávez: Sinfonía India

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica

• Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183

Alan Gilbert conducts a program with American roots for Thanksgiving.

• Salonen: L.A. Variations

• Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70

• Copland: Symphony No. 3

American conductor David Robertson conducts Bartók’s intriguing early ballet, The Wooden Prince.

• Stravinsky: Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo (John Bruce Yeh, clarinet)

• Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

• Bartók: The Wooden Prince

• Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

• Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218 (MaximVengerov, violin)

• Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Pinchas Zukerman joins the CSO as soloist and conductor

• Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200 (Pinchas Zukerman, conductor)

• Bartók: Viola Concerto, BB 128 (Pinchas Zukerman, viola; William Eddins, conductor)

• Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 (Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Daniel Barenboim, conductor)

• Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066 (Pinchas Zukerman, conductor)

• Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor, BWV 1060 (Eugene Izotov, oboe; Pinchas Zukerman, violin and conductor)

• Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 (Larry Combs, clarinet; Semyon Bychkov, conductor)

• Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor (Pierre Boulez, conductor)

SOLOISTS: Jessica Rivera, soprano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Clifton Forbis, tenor; Eric Owens, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, conductor and director

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125

SOLOISTS: Eugene Izotov and Lora Schaefer, oboes; John Bruce Yeh and Gregory Smith, clarinets; William Buchman and Dennis Michel, bassoons; Daniel Gingrich and Susanna Drake, horns

Beethoven:

• Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a
• Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
• Octet for Winds in E-Flat Major, Op. 103
• Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 97

SOLOISTS: Nathan Cole, violin; Akiko Tarumoto, violin; Max Raimi, viola; Kenneth Olsen, cello

Beethoven: - Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60 - Grosse Fuge in B-Flat Major for String Quartet, Op. 133 - Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastoral

SOLOISTS: John Bruce Yeh, clarinet; William Buchman, bassoon; Daniel Gingrich, horn; Robert Chen, violin; Charles Pikler, viola; Kenneth Osden, cello; Stephen Lester, bass

• Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio, Op. 72b
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93
• Beethoven: Septet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

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

• Verdi: Messa da Requiem (Barbara Frittoli, soprano; Olga Borodina, mezzosoprano; Mario Zeffiri, tenor; Ildar Abdrazakov, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director; Riccardo Muti, conductor)

• Dvorak: Te Deum (Patricia Racette, soprano; Philip Cutlip, baritone, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director; Sir Mark Elder, conductor)

The CSO presents the U.S. premiere of a work by Detlev Glanert, followed by a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. Semyon Bychkov conducts.

• Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto in C (Jennifer Gunn, piccolo; Harry Bicket, conductor)
• Glanert: Theatrum bestiarum, Songs and Dances for Large Orchestra (US Premiere)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Semyon Bychkov, conductor)

Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto makes his subscription debut with the CSO.

• Revueltas: Suite from Redes
• Yanov-Yanovsky: Cello Concerto [world premiere; CSO commission] (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54
• Williams: Memoirs of a Geisha for Cello and Orchestra (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)

Storytelling and dance music infuse this program conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Charles Dutoit.

• Falla: Three Dances from El amor brujo
• Bates: Music from Underground Spaces
• Ravel: Mother Goose
• Ravel: La Valse
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Charles Dutoit, conductor)

CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen is the soloist in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with French conductor Ludovic Morlot.

• Martinů: The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
• Debussy: La Mer
• Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (Robert Chen, violin)
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 (Jonathan Biss, piano)

Daniel Barenboim has always championed the music of American composer Elliott Carter. He conducts and plays the world premiere of Carter’s Soundings in this program, and leads the orchestra in Schubert’s great Symphony No. 9.

• Carter: Soundings (Daniel Barenboim, piano)
• Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso
• Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Lang Lang, piano)
• Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944

Music from, (and paying homage to), the 18th century, with early music specialists Trevor Pinnock and Harry Bicket.

• Fauré: Masques et Bergamasques
• Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major (Paul Gomziakov, cello)
• Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
• Rameau: Suite from Les Boreades (Harry Bicket, conductor)

Sir Mark Elder conducts an eclectic program from the Romantic era.

• Berlioz: Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
• Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, Reformation
• Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 (Emanuel Ax, piano)
• Wagner: Overture to Rienzi
• Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2 (Ludovic Morlot, conductor)

David Robertson conducts the rarely-heard Violin Concerto by Kurt Weill with Canadian violinist James Ehnes.

• Purcell: Chacony in G Minor
• Weill: Violin Concerto, Op. 12 (James Ehnes, violin)
• Beethoven: Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124
• Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

Violinist Christian Tetzlaff returns to play Brahms, with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.

• Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (Christian Tetzlaff, violin)
• Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op. 50
• Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Sir Mark Elder conducts a program of music by English composers.

• Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra
• Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (Elena Urioste, violin)
• Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 63
• Delius: A Song of Summer

Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski makes his CSO debut in an all-Russian program.

• Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead
• Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
• Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4, Op. 112
• Stravinsky: The Fairy’s Kiss (Andrey Boreyko, conductor)

John Williams conducts a concert of his own music, including his bassoon concerto, The Five Sacred Trees. And the orchestra plays Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A London Symphony from a concert conducted by Robert Spano.

• Williams: Fanfare for a Festive Occasion (John Williams, conductor)
• Williams: Tributes! (for Seiji) (John Williams, conductor)
• Williams: The Five Sacred Trees (John Williams, conductor; David McGill, bassoon)
• Williams: Four Pieces from American Journey (John Williams, conductor)
• Williams: Sayuri’s Theme from Memoirs of a Geisha (John Williams, conductor)
• Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Robert Spano, conductor)

As part of Pierre Boulez’s 85th-birthday celebration David Robertson conducts an all-20th century program.

• Messiaen: Les Offrandes oubliées
• Berg: Violin Concerto (Kyoko Takezawa, violin)
• Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
• Bartók: Excerpts from The Wooden Prince

Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink conducts the complete incidental music to Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Erin Morley, soprano; Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; Sir Thomas Allen, Narrator; The Girls of Anima, Emily Ellsworth, artistic director.

• Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
• Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano)
• Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183

Paavo Järvi brings back rarely heard Concertos for Orchestra by Kodaly and Lutoslawski, plus a U.S. premiere by his Estonian compatriot, Erkki-Sven Tüür.

• Kodaly: Concerto for Orchestra (CSO commission)
• Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F Major (Wayne Marshall, piano)
• Tüür: Zeitraum (U.S. premiere)
• Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
• Sibelius: Finlandia

Mitsuko Uchida conducts Mozart from the keyboard.

• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453
• Mozart: Divertimento in F Major, K. 138
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, K. 595
• Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E Major, BB 127 (Mitsuko Uchida, piano; Daniel Barenboim, conductor)

Soprano Jessica Rivera sings settings of Emily Dickinson poems by Aaron Copland and Osvaldo Golijov. Robert Spano conducts.

• Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, Unfinished
• Golijov: She Was Here (Jessica Rivera, soprano)
• Copland: Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson (Jessica Rivera, soprano)
• Golijov: How Slow the Wind (Jessica Rivera, soprano)
• Copland: Suite from Appalachian Spring
• Golijov: Mariel (Kenneth Olsen, cello; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor)

Music Director Designate Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Chorus, in Brahms A German Requiem.

• Verdi: Tacea la notte placida from Il trovatore (Barbara Frittoli, soprano)
• Cilea: Io son l’umile ancella from Adriana Lecouvreur (Barbara Frittoli, soprano)
• Brahms: A German Requiem (Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director)
• Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione

Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink conducts masterpieces of German romanticism.

• Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
• Webern: Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1
• Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
• Purcell/Stuckey: Funeral Music for Queen Mary

Two great Russian works, conducted by Charles Dutoit.

• Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 (Kirill Gerstein, piano)
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 103, The Year 1905

Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda introduces a 2002 work by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.

• Saariaho: Orion
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (Radu Lupu, piano)
• Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 13

Michael Tilson Thomas and Yefim Bronfman pair up for a dynamic performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Brahms.

• Crawford Seeger: Andante for Strings
• Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra
• Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (Yefim Bronfman, piano)
• Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97, Rhenish (John Eliot Gardiner, conductor)

Charles Dutoit is on the podium for Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony.

• Wagner: Overture to The Flying Dutchman
• Goldmark: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 28 (Hilary Hahn, violin)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 Pathétique

A program from February 2010, conducted by Peter Oundjian.

• Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 (Shai Wosner, piano)
• Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5

Russian conductor Alexander Polianichko brings us a rare Overture and stage music by Tchaikovsky.

• Tchaikovsky: The Storm
• Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Snow Maiden
• Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from Swan Lake
• Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
• Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony (John Eliot Gardiner, conductor)

The celebration of Pierre Boulez’s 85th birthday continues with highlights from his Chicago residency in January.

• Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
• Bartok: Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra (Pierre Laurent Aimard, piano; Tamara Stefanovich, piano)
• Dalbavie: Flute Concerto (Mathieu Dufour, flute)
• Stravinsky: The Firebird

Retrospective: Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez turns 85 this month. This features his CSO Resound recording of Stravinsky’s Four Studies and Pulcinella, released in January.

• Stravinsky: Four Studies for Orchestra (Pierre Boulez, conductor)
• Stravinsky: Excerpts from Pulcinella (Pierre Boulez, conductor)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major (Pierre Boulez, conductor)

Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink leads a performance of Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante featuring four CSO principals: Eugene Izotov, David McGill, Robert Chen, and John Sharp, plus the final symphonies of twentieth-century composers Witold Lutoslawski and Anton Bruckner.

• Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat Major (Eugene Izotov, oboe; David McGill, bassoon; Robert Chen, violin; John Sharp, cello)
• Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 4
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor

Stephen Hough is a scholar as well as a pianist. Hear a fascinating interview with him about Rachmaninov’s unusual Fourth Piano Concerto, plus a performance by cellist Lynn Harrell of the Elgar Cello Concerto and 20th century Czech music, all conducted by Mark Elder.

• Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 (Lynn Harrell, cello)
• Janácek: Jealousy
• Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40 (Stephen Hough, piano)
• Kancheli: r la Duduki
• Janacek: Taras Bulba

Bernard Labadie conducts and Benedetto Lupo is the soloist in this concert of Haydn and Mozart from May 2009.

• Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise) (Bernard Labadie, conductor)
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat Major (Bernard Labadie, conductor; Benedetto Lupo, piano)
• Mozart: Ballet Music from Idomeneo, rc di Creta: Chaconne (Bernard Labadie, conductor)
• Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major (Bernard Labadie, conductor)
• Dvorak: Scherzo capriccioso (Mark Elder, conductor)

Markus Stenz conducts Mahler’s “heavenly” Fourth Symphony, with excerpts from the CSO’s Beyond the Score presentation. Works by Mendelssohn and Wagner round out the program.

• Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor (Markus Stenz, conductor; Viviane Hagner, violin)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Markus Stenz, conductor; Nicole Cabell, soprano)
• Wagner: Siegfried Idyll (Bernard Haitink, conductor)

In his new song cycle, James Primosch tells the story of Adam, the Biblical first man. Sir Andrew Davis conducts and Brian Mulligan sings in this CSO-commissioned world premiere.

• Stravinsky: Concerto in E-flat Major for Chamber Orchestra (Dumbarton Oaks)
• Primosch: Songs for Adam (Brian Mulligan, baritone)
• Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor (Scottish)
• Ravel: Mother Goose Suite

British pianist Paul Lewis plays Mozart in a concert from November 2009.

• Bartók: Divertimento for String Orchestra (Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor)
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major (Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor; Paul Lewis, piano)
• Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major (Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor)
• Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major (Pinkas Zukerman, conductor)

Music Director Designate Riccardo Muti conducts this program, featuring Mozart and Bruckner symphonies from his Chicago residency last October.

• Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major (Haffner)
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (1877 revised version)
• Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnol
• Falla: Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat (Three Dances)

An unusual juxtaposition of Baroque and Classical selections with a chamber work written by Richard Strauss during the Second World War. Nicholas Kraemer is conductor and harpsichordist.

• Mozart: Divertimento in D Major
• Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G Major
• Telemann: Selections from Tafelmusik II (Nicholas Kraemer, harpsichord)
• Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major (Christopher Martin, trumpet)
• R. Strauss: Metamorphosen

American violinist Joshua Bell is featured in this concert from last fall. Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts.

• Faure: Suite from Pelleas et Melisande (Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor)
• Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor (Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin)
• Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A Minor (Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin)
• Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor (Organ) (Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor)
• Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales (Pierre Boulez, conductor)

Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink leads the CSO in Mahler’s Third Symphony, the inaugural recording on the CSO Resound label.

• Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Bernard Haitink, conductor)
• Mahler: Das Irdische Leben, Verlorne Muh, and Rheinlegendchen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano; Sir Georg Solti, conductor)

In this retrospective, we discover the many portraits of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition by listening to different movements by each of these conductors: Rafael Kubelik, Fritz Reiner, Seiji Ozawa, Carlo Maria Giulini, Neeme Jarvi, and Sir Georg Solti. Hear a whole program of music written about the visual arts.

• Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (1951-1989; various conductors)
• Takemitsu: Visions (1993; Daniel Barenboim)
• Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead (1957; Fritz Reiner)
• Hindemith: Nobilissima visione Suite (1967; Jean Martinon)
• Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas (1958; Fritz Reiner)

Dutch violinist Janine Jansen makes her CSO debut as part of the orchestra’s Dvorák Festival. Sir Mark Elder conducts.

• Dvorák: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 10
• Dvorák: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53 (Janine Jansen, violin)
• Dvorák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70

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