Monday, October 19, 2015
Riccardo Muti (15-17.01.2015 - Live - Chicago) MP3
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Yefim Bronfman says he never wants the audience to think that Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto sounds difficult…although it is very challenging for the solo pianist. He performs the work with Maestro Muti, who also leads a symphony by Tchaikovsky and a Beethoven overture. Extended interviews with Bronfman about working with Maestro Muti, how composers such as Brahms dealt with the shadow of Beethoven, and the technical demands made on pianists in works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Ravel may be found below.
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (Winter Daydreams)
Originally recorded at concerts on Jan. 15, 16 and 17, 2015
Beethoven Overture to The Consecration of the House
Originally recorded at concerts on April 25, 26 and 27, 2013
Program notes for the Brahms and Tchaikovsky works may be read here, and those for Beethoven’s Consecration of the House Overture can be found here.
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Riccardo Muti, Zell Music Director and Conductor
Riccardo Muti (Sept. 20, 22, 26 and 28, 2012 - Live - Chicago) MP3
CSO Radio
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2012/13 season opened in exciting fashion, with Respighi’s explosive Feste romane. A rarely heard symphony by Dvorák and a lovely miniature by Martucci precedes it. Mendelssohn’s delicate Italian Symphony closes the concert.
Dvorák Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 76
Martucci Notturno
Respighi Feste romane
Originally recorded at concerts on Sept. 20, 22, 26 and 28, 2012
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 (Italian)
Originally recorded at concerts Oct. 6, 7 and 8, 2011
This broadcast is available for streaming until Oct. 12, 2015
Riccardo Muti, Zell Music Director and Conductor
Ingo Metzmacher (Dec. 4, 5, 6, and 9, 2014 - Live - Chicago) MP3
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Ingo Metzmacher dirigiert das Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berl
Each of the works on this concert connects with the great Russian city of St. Petersburg: one was premiered there, in 1892 (The Nutcracker), the plot of one is partially set in one of its civic fairs (Petrushka), and the other depicts a horrifying massacre in 1905 of civilians in the city’s palace square (Shostakovich’s Symphony Eleventh Symphony). German conductor Ingo Metzmacher conducts the concert, and you can find interviews with him and CSO violists John Bartholemew and Daniel Orbach below. Orbach’s grandfather was wounded in the scene depicted by Shostakovich before he escaped to the US, and Orbach tells that story in his interview. Bartholemew tells us more about the viola section’s unique part in this symphony, and CSO English horn discusses his role in the work.
Tchaikovsky Excerpts from The Nutcracker
Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version)
Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 (The Year 1905)
Originally recorded at concerts on Dec. 4, 5, 6, and 9, 2014
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Riccardo Muti (30.01.2015 - Live - Carnegie Hall) MP3
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Plays Mendelssohn, Debussy and Scriabin
Ricardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Ricardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Todd Rosenberg/CSO)
Listen to the archived broadcast, recorded Friday, January 30 at 8 pm, with Riccardo Muti leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a night out at sea as they perform pieces by Mendelssohn, Debussy and Scriabin.
Muti begins the program with Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, a piece inspired by Goethe’s poems Calm at Sea and The Prosperous Voyage, depicting a more personal rather than literal journey through “deathly” still waters.
The CSO continues the evening with Debussy’s La Mer, a symphonic portrait worked solely from the composer’s memory of summers spent in Cannes. Muti ends the program with Scriabin’s The Divine Poem a four-part tone poem without pause. With the sections translating to “Struggles,” “Delights,” and “Divine Play,” the bridge between a literal and metaphorical journey through ever-changing waters comes to a close.
This concert marks the first of three concerts by the CSO at Carnegie Hall this month. Muti has been music director of the CSO since 2010.
WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon co-hosts the broadcast with fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi.
Program:
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture
Debussy: La Mer
Scriabin: Symphony No. 3, "The Divine Poem"
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Carnegie Hall Live: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Plays Mendelssohn, Debussy and Scriabin
On Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, WQXR broadcast live from Carnegie Hall the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Riccardo Muti.
Riccardo Muti (25-30.09.2014 - Live - Chicago) MP3
January 19, 2015 Authored by CSO Radio
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Tchaikovsky’s thrilling Fourth Symphony is featured in this program, with Berlioz’s early Waverley Overture and Debussy’s evocative La mer preceding it. From previous seasons, we have also included works by Martucci and Ravel. CSO musicians Jennifer Gunn (piccolo) and Baird Dodge (principal second violin) talk about their roles in audio interviews, with Gunn mentioning the extreme preparation needed for her brief (nineteen notes!) solo, and Dodge comparing Tchaikovsky to Shakespeare.
Berlioz Waverley Overture
Debussy La mer
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Originally recorded at concerts on Sept. 25, 26, 27 and 30, 2014
Martucci Notturno
Originally recorded at concerts on Sept. 14, 15 and 16, 2012
Ravel Rapsodie espagnol
Originally recorded at concerts on Sept. 20, 22, 26 and 28, 2007
Chicago SO,
Riccardo Muti, Zell Music Director and conductor
Pierre Boulez, CSO (2005, 2010 - Live - Chicago) MP3
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We honor Pierre Boulez on the occasion of his 90th birthday March 26 with this program drawn from CSO concerts in 2005 and 2010. In addition to former CSO Music Director Daniel Barenboim playing a concerto by Bartók with Boulez, the program features works by Haydn and Bernard Rands, and closes with the thrilling Sinfonietta by Janáček.
Haydn Symphony No. 103 (Drumroll)
Rands Cello Concerto
Johannes Moser, cello
Originally recorded in concerts on March 10, 11 and 12, 2005
Bartók Piano Concerto No. 1
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Originally recorded in concerts on Feb. 3 and 4, 2005
Janáček Sinfonietta
Originally recorded in concerts on March 5, 6, 7 and 9, 2010
Friday, October 2, 2015
Riccardo Muti (22-24.01.2015 - Live - Chicago) MP3
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The First Symphony of Alexander Scriabin closes with a paean to art, written by the composer and sung by two soloists and chorus, after five movements featuring the orchestra. The second half is Prokofiev’s bracing cantata Alexander Nevsky, drawn from his score to Sergei Eisenstein’s famous film. The texts for both works may be found below.
Scriabin Symphony No. 1
Alisa Kolosova, mezzo-soprano
Sergey Skorokhodov, tenor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
Alisa Kolosova, mezzo-soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Originally recorded at concerts on Jan. 22, 23, and 24, 2015
Mozart Divertimento in D Major
Originally recorded at concerts on Oct. 3, 5, 8, and 11, 2013
The program notes and texts for the Scriabin and Prokofiev works are here. The program notes for the Mozart Divertimento may be read here.
Alisa Kolosova, mezzo-soprano
Sergey Skorokhodov, tenor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe, chorus director
Riccardo Muti, Zell Music Director and Conductor
Nikolai Lugansky, Charles Dutoit (05-07,10.04.2012 - Live - Chicago) MP3
CSO Radio
CSO principal cello John Sharp and principal viola Charles Pikler are featured in Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote in this program, as well as pianist Nikolai Lugansky in Rachmaninov’s popular Third Piano Concerto, all conducted by Charles Dutoit.
Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin
Originally recorded at concerts on March 22, 23, 24, 25 and 27, 2007
Strauss Don Quixote
John Sharp, cello; Charles Pikler, viola
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
Originally recorded at concerts on Apr. 5, 6, 7, and 10, 2012
John Sharp, cello
Charles Pikler, viola
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
Charles Dutoit, conductor
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